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A Better Mousetrap
by A Better Mouse Trap
A Better Mousetrap podcast finds the founders and leaders in New York City's startup and tech community. The host, Marcos Dinnerstein, brings out their insights, industry knowledge and their stories. The highs, lows, and in-betweens that shape us and make us who we are.
Episodes
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Learning to Live With Ourselves and Our Partners - Therapist Mary J. Giuffra, Ph.D.
In today’s episode I speak with Mary J. Giuffra, a therapist with over 30 years of practice, working with individuals and couples. She has taught in universities in the U.S. and abroad, including tenured positions at New York University and the College of Mount Saint Vincent. Her unique approach...
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David Ryan Polgar: A Champion For Responsible Tech
This interview was done in the Fall of last year. For various reasons including a global pandemic and pure laziness, this has been gathering digital dust on my digital shelf. But David Ryan Polgar and the team at All Tech Is Human are doing important work so late or not, this is a good…
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Privacy-By-Design in a Contact Tracing App: A Conversation with Micha Benoliel, Co-Founder of Coalition App
Nothing like a good pandemic to rapidly teach us new phrases. “flatten the curve”, “shelter in place”, “social distancing”, “asymptomatic”, “herd immunity” are just of few of the many terms we’re all getting to know and use. Dictionary.com has compiled a hefty list of coronavirus terms. Now you…
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DigDec InfraTech Teaser
InfraTech encompasses the fields of both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ infrastructure. Traditionally, we thought of infrastructure as roads, bridges, airports, power stations - i.e. physical things that are the underpinnings of a modern society. By contrast, ‘soft’ infrastructure includes education…
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DigDec FinTech Teaser
How is FinTech being used in developing markets? Are the trends pointing towards incumbent players adopting digital strategies or are startups entering the consumer and business markets with services that will supplant the existing players? And as these newer technologies are adopted, what mix of...
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DigDec Conversations: InfraTech
InfraTech is a shortening or mashup of Infrastructure Technology. It covers physical infrastructure such as bridges, tunnels, energy tech, and airports. It also encompasses education, healthcare, and transportation. In this episode, David Halpert, founder of Prince Street Capital Management...
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DigDec Conversations: Financial Inclusion
Financial inclusion. What do people mean when they use that term? Is it a social movement or is it a business opportunity to address the needs of a vast market of people who have no bank accounts, credit, or access to eCommerce? The simple answer would be yes to being both a social movement and a...
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DigDec Conversations: HealthTech in Emerging Markets
We continue our conversation with Prince Street Capital Management's founder, David Halpert. In this episode, we talk about trends in HealthTech in emerging markets where there are both significant opportunities as well as challenges. Where there is no firmly established system in place both new...
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DigDec HealthTech Teaser
Prince Street Capital Management has a focus on new technologies in the Healthcare industry, among others, in developing nations. What is being done differently in these countries as compared to the so-called developed nations? Are some countries bypassing or 'leapfrogging' existing ways of...
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DigDec Teaser
Transcript More and more of the world economy is going digital. Whether it's buying plane tickets or applying for credit card loans or looking up healthcare prescriptions, the world is shifting toward a more data-driven and more digital economy. Today, US & Chinese companies account for 90% of…
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Prince Street Capital Management: A talk with David Halpert on Digital Decolonization
Digital Decolonization is a term that will reshape how we think of businesses in, and investing in, emerging markets such as in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. And this is not a matter of semantics - of po-tay-to / po-tah-to. How an idea is framed is important when it...
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Wonchang Terry Choi: The Start of a Career in Alternative Assets
A Russian, a Columbian, and a Korean walked into a bar. No, this isn't the latest joke that seeks to elevate one group at the expense of others. This is a story of three immigrants elevating the U.S. They do this by joining forces to apply skills, ambition, and grit to create an investment…
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Linhaus: Lisa Linhardt Creates Unique Jewelry
Can you make artisanal, one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry and also scale the production of those works? Does that sound like a contradiction? That's the question confronting Lisa Linhardt and her team at Linhaus, a tech-enabled operation for jewelry, design, and craft. The melding of old and new...
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FD Global Connections Brings FinTech Co's to NYC - Fall 2019
Last year I interviewed the companies that were visiting the US as part of FD Global Connections fdglobal.com.au program and this year I was lucky enough to connect with the latest batch of companies. They don’t disappoint. Based in either the UK or Australia, each is exploring entering the US...
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Kevin Siskar, Co-Founder of EquityToken, A Blockchain-based Cap Table
When a startup is created, a record is created that shows who has a stake in that company - i.e. equity. This is called a Capitalization or Cap Table. Over time,investments are made in that company, employees are offered stock options and other events change the Cap Table. Managing equity and…
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Ismael El-Qudsi, of SocialPubli, Talks Micro-Influencers and Maximum Returns
Do you know what a micro-influencer is? Regardless of what you think you know, you'll learn much more when you listen to Ismael El-Qudsi talk about the immense return of investment (ROI) that using micro-influencers can bring and how SocialPubli lets advertisers scale this potent tool in one…
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Daniel Meth, SitParker
Join me in this thoroughly enjoyable conversation with Dan Meth, Founder of SitParker, a platform for restaurants, bars, and other venues to manage events more easily and realize more profit per event. About halfway into the interview Dan tells a great story about pitching his first investor.…
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Elusio Zafar Alcalde, Founder of TaxMap
Benjamin Franklin said something like, "There are only two things certain in life, death and taxes" While perhaps a bit fatalistic, it has a ring of truth to it. My recent conversation with TaxMap founder, F. Elusio Zafar Alcalde, tells me that cryptocurrencies are growing up and accepting at…
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Josh Goldenberg of Clarifai Talks Computer Vision
Before his senior year at high school started, Josh Goldenberg had taken all the math courses offered at his high school. That year was spent finding and taking other courses to occupy his curiosity and continuing to run cross-country. Staying with his core interests, in college Josh studied both...
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RoninAI, A Place to Trade Cryptocurrencies
In this episode, Peter Borovykh, founder of RoninAI takes us through how his company lets cryptocurrency owners trade for profit. Hear how the platform evolved to where it is today and where his customers trade. So far, the company hasn't taken any investment money and wants to hold true to their...
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Livekick Delivers Certified Trainers for Personalized Sessions
Shayna Schmidt, Co-Founder (left) and Michele Ross, (right) Head of Business Development talk about Livekick, their online fitness and wellness company, Livekick enables one-on-one, interactive fitness training and yoga sessions. They make the case that what they are doing delivers a better...
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Bob Bennett, A Smart City Leader Helping Cities Better Serve
When people hear the title Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) they typically think of someone employing the latest cutting edge tech to solve a big problem. Bob Bennett, is more creative than that. This former CIO of Kansas City, MO, founder of B Squared Civic Solutions and Chair of the Cities Today...
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Noel Hidalgo: BetaNYC Helps NYC Better Serve the Public
Noel Hidalgo, Executive Director of BetaNYC has been a driving force in good government in New York City for over 10 years. The work that BetaNYC does includes education, empowering NYC's public to use technology and specifically open data, and advocating for safe, fair, technology that benefits...
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Chris Gillespie, Subspace: Swarm Building Software
It’s tempting and facile to say that Subspace is trying to “…boldly go where no one has gone before” but in this case it’s true. They are building a platform on which developers can ‘swarm build’ software. The developers review each other’s code in real-time, vote it up or down, and make...
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John Mullin, Founder of Chrgr, Ads You Want to Hold On To
"So Chrgr is fundamentally an advertising company. And what we're doing is we're defining a new sort of level of advertising, which we're calling advertising as a utility We produce these credit card sized batteries. We get clients and brands to sponsor them. But what we really do is put them…
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John Liu, Fusion - A Blockchain-based Finance Platform
This informative conversation with John Liu, Chief Product Officer of Fusion was great. The crypto-anarchist future where nation states are a thing of the past and we anonymously control every facet of our digital lives is probably at least a few more weeks away. In the meantime Fusion, a…
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Evren Ay, Co-Founder of MotaWord, A New Translation Platform
ICYMI: Evren Ay, Founder of the translation platform, MotaWord, is good company. Recently, I've been crashing at his office recently and churning out content for him. He usually has a good story to tell and I’ve heard some eye-openers lately This is catnip to this collector of stories - me - so...
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In Conversation: Brightsky Ventures - Diego Berrio
Diego Berrio, Partner at Brightsky Ventures and Starta Ventures are partnering to offer their LATAM EXPANSION TRACK to support high growth, early stage companies expanding into Latin America. In addition to a structured three month program they’ll also be providing ongoing support to their cohort...
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Disruptivo Looks to Empower Aspiring Social Entrepreneurs
Everything about Juan Del Cerro is big. His size, his voice, his warm, enthusiastic manner and most of all his goal of inspiring people, especially young people to start social enterprises. Listen to him talk about the beginnings in Mexico five years ago, how he has grown the business and now…
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Bonmo founders Stephanie Huong and Gideon Klein
Marketing is a competition for people's attention and humor is a consistently winning way to capture and keep attention. Bonmo has created a platform to connect comedians with marketers so together they can make more effective content. Bonmo's founders believe that humor must be an integral part…
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Qri - with Brendan O'Brien & Rico Gardaphe
(L to R) Rico Gardaphe, Operations & Business Development and Brendan O’Brien, Founder & CEO of Qri. Qri's website reads: Qri ("query") is a versioned scriptable exportable, collaborative datasets. That means when using Qri, each new version of your database is time stamped and signed by you. In...
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Raz Choudhury, Founder of SAM AI
Finding myself at WeWork on W. 57 Street I bumped into Raz Choudhury, founder of SAM AI who I've known for a few years. Of course that meant catching up had to be memorialized. SAM AI is a CRM (Customer Relationship Manager) platform. Their aim is to simplify CRM so more people can benefit from…
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Charlie Oliver, Founder of Served Fresh Media and Tech 2025
Feb. 23, 2019: This past week I caught up with Charlie Oliver, founder of Served Fresh Media and, recently, Tech 2025. The latter is a platform for learning about emerging technologies. As we dug into the topic we realized how aligned we are on the importance of education. We cannot be passive...
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A Conversation with Philip Delvecchio
In this talk with Marcos Dinnerstein in June 2018, Philip reveals his interest in making the NYC tech community more equitable and inclusive, his continued support of international entrepreneurs who come to the U.S. and in strengthening the channels between the Chinese and U.S. tech communities....
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Ash Kaluarachchi, StartEd
Ash Kaluarachchi has seen the power that education has to shape and alter the trajectory of a person's life. While growing up in Sri Lanka Ash's mother ran a school out of her house. The three hundred children, ages six to sixteen years old, studied elocution, drama and speech. What Ash most...
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David Ryan Polgar, Tech Ethicist - Part II
In the second part of my conversation with David Ryan Polar, we spoke about how tech creates challenges in the areas of free speech, privacy, and concentration of power. We agreed it’s a ‘big, hairy, thorny, nasty problem.’. Nevertheless, Polgar is optimistic about tech’s promise to solve big...
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David Ryan Polgar, Tech Ethicist - Part I
Ethics in tech is on the minds of so many people and organizations from governments to watchdog groups to media outlets and, of course, on the minds of all of us individually. David Ryan Polgar has been thinking, writing and talking about this topic in all its permutations since 2012. He…
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Youssef Kalad, NYCx, in the Mayor's Office of the Chief Technology Officer
If you looked only at the national level, it would be easy to be jaded about government and it’s ability to be responsive to the needs of the majority of people. But look at New York City government. It’s a very different story. Did you know there are 300,000 lamp posts in NYC? There's a good...
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A Conversation with Rhonda Binda, Co-Founder of Venture Smarter
In this episode of A Better Mousetrap podcast Rhonda Binda, co-founder of Venture Smarter is our guest. Venture Smarter is technology company focused on smart governance and creating connected, smart infrastructure across the U.S. and soon, globally. Venture Smarter has created a match making...
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Yale Fox, Rentlogic: How to fairly assign grades to residential buildings
Rentlogic assigns letter grades to residential rental buildings. Just as New York City's health department does for restaurants. What makes Rentlogic's offering so strong is they constantly work to be scrupulously fair to all parties. There's no 'gotcha' here with a bias towards renters or…
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Victoria Yampolsky, Founder of The Startup Station
If you are building a business you had better understand finance and how to best position your company to raise money. Victoria Yampolsky has created a school, advisory practice and a growing repository of learning resources to put you on the track to financial competency. Listen as she describes...
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Rebecca Lima: The Lieu, Supporting Women's Beauty & Self-Care Needs in the Workplace
Rebecca Lima is a serial founder and someone who I can honestly say has the entrepreneur’s itch. She has that indefinable character trait in the people I recognize as common to many company founders. (I’m not one of them, at least not by birth) I first met Rebecca when she was working on her...
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In Conversation with Caitlin Pearce, Exec. Dir. of the Freelancers Union
Eight years ago Caitlin Pearce left the world of academia to join The Freelancers Union. She worked her way through the ranks and now heads this non-profit organization dedicated to supporting contract workers in the United States. The services they offer including educational, health insurance…
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Lisa Diaz talks Smart Cities, Resiliency and Dreams of Better Airports
Lisa Diaz is Managing Partner and Founder of Turf Advisory. Her firm specializes in smart infrastructure, resiliency, and human centered design. As someone actively involved in NYC's urban tech scene she has a unique perspective on how innovation makes more livable cities come into being.
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Zack Woods: Reflections on Innovation
Marcos Dinnerstein sat down with Zack Woods for an extended conversation on large, fuzzy topic of Innovation. Among other roles, Zack has worked in Digital Strategy, Corporate Development, and as a valued mentor to startups. Marcos Dinnerstein: "That’s just the sort of person I’m comfortable…
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A Conversation with Sissel Hansen, Founder of Startup Guide
Startup Guide New York, a book on NYC’s startup ecosystem, was published in October of 2018. It's been received as an excellent overview of New York City’s startup scene and a great way for founders and tech workers outside of NYC to begin to make their way here. We caught up with Sissel Hansen,...
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Magis Industries: Build It Fast. Spend Less
In October (2018) at the Ascent Conference 2018 I had a chance to interview Victoria Gregory of Magis Industries. Along with her co-founder, Gabriel Alba-Rivera, their company creates products and brings them to market both faster and at lower cost. Check out this bite-sized podcast!
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Josh Weinstein, CannaGather: Building Community Around a Controlled Substance
This week we caught up with Josh Weinstein, founder of CannaGather, New York City's largest monthly cannabis event. The United States in in the midst of a sea change with regards to regulating both the sale and use of Cannabis. Each month CannaGather features the major players in the Cannabis...
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Prasant Sudhakaran, Aingel July 8, 2018
A Conversation with Prasant Sudhakaran, of Aingel. How do early stage venture capital funds and angel groups choose companies they believe will succeed and make their investors money? It can look more like art than science in many cases. Prasant Sudhakaran and Amr Shady, Co-founders of Angel,...
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Max Stein - Balanc3
Max Stein, a cryptoeconomist and Blockchain business architect talks with Marcos about the Balanc3 blockchain-based accounting platform. For more great content like this and to keep up on the NYC startup scene subscribe to A Better Mousetrap newsletter https://goo.gl/forms/oIdhmdKJvE4GO1a32
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A Better Mousetrap podcast finds the founders and leaders in New York City's startup and tech community. The host, Marcos Dinnerstein, brings out their insights, industry knowledge and their stories. The highs, lows, and in-betweens that shape us and make us who we are.
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