Startup Chatter by Donna Bogatin

 YouTube is NOT the only game in (Big Apple) town! 

I am a proud original Silicon Alley pioneer: In 1997, I created the first Internet For Entrepreneurs Workshop in New York City, on behalf of the SCORE division of the Small Business Administration, and have been steadfastly championing NYC tech entrepreneurs since.

Now, as Founder & CEO of StartupAlpha.com, I have the pleasure of working arm-in-arm daily with fellow Silicon Alley bootstrapping tech startups in fostering the successful achievement of real-world Web business models.

I helped New York City inaugurate Internet Week by hosting a pro-bono Bootstrap Lunch in Bryant Park: I welcomed dozens of tech startups for strategy brainstorming and alliance building.

To close the week, I helped StartupAlpha.com Pitch Network member Drawn By Pain celebrate its “People’s Voice” Award at the Webby’s.

Webby Awards party picture above, from left to right: Drawn By Pain animator Erica Langworthy, Drawn By Pain producer, Jesse Cowell, StartupAlpha.com Founder, Donna Bogatin.

In the words of Jesse, Drawn By Pain is a:

Mixed live action/animated series in twelve parts, chronicling the life of a young woman battling the demons both in her mind and in the real world, searching for salvation as her animated madness fights for her sanity in the real world.”

Congratulations guys, on a very non-painful evening!

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