Tell Us Your Event Ideas For 2024 | Founder Gift Guide | Event Calendar

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👋 Hiya,

So our last event of 2023 is in the bag! Can’t quite believe it, but we held 30 different events this year - everything from our small group coffees and happy hours, to out super special coworking days.

Thank you so much to everyone who came, and all who supported, with a special shout out going to our space providers. They were not just incredible partners - but are just good people too.

If you are in need of a place to work - check out their cowokring offices (and tell them Tori sent you) 🙏

• The Yard - Manhattan and Brooklyn

• Primary Coworking - FiDi

• Nomadworks - Nomad & Times Square

• Gaseteria Works - Long Island City

✍️ What events should we hold in 2024?

The more input and suggestions we get from you, the more impactful we can make them. And if you’d like to hold a session too - there’s a space to share your ideas too. Fill out this quick survey, and let us know.

Coming up in this issue…

1. 📆 2023 Event re-cap (are you famous??)

2. 🫂 Come to a TKS Event (Coffee Huddles start again Jan 5th)

3. 🎁 Holiday Gift inspiration (from amazing NYC founders)

4. 👋 Welcome to the hood

5. 🛠️ Tools & Resources - fundraising, accelerators, email deliverability…

6. 📆 Event Calendar: 40+ across NYC

➡️ ps - Love events? Check out our brand new events calendar. It curates what we think are the best founder activities across the city.

➡️ pps - Our final issue of 2023 will be a MEGA STARTUP ROUNDUP, the most interesting we’ve seen in NYC this year! Apply to be featured

🐝 For gifts that are practical & beautiful

🩹 For gifts that are beautiful & good for you

 🧥 Gifts for the minimalists in your life

🎁 For gifts that make memories

🌳 For gifts that provide pleasure without compromise

A big 👋 and hello to some of our newer members, including...

• Andy Edelson, based in nyc and founder of a b2c2b rewards startup. Would be glad to chat with anybody interested in building, investing (we are raising a pre-seed round) or giving feedback on your startup
  

• Bear Matthews, I run a boutique venture + advisory firm named Sisu.

  I've just moved back to NYC, but have previously lived in Switzerland, the UK, SF & plenty of other places!

🚀Accelerators

HZN - Web3 Accelerator by Horizon. New Equity free, but no investment, accelerator for early Web 3 Startups.

Apply

Google - all of their accelerator programmes in one place. Covers everything from AI and Climate to the Circular Economy, with programmes run globally.

Check them out

💰 Fundraising & Storytelling

Looking for ways to boost your odds? Potential have launced an interesting new Storytelling AI tool.

Apply for their Beta

Do you really know how to share your story? To bring others along with you? To land the delivery? Most people don’t, but you can with these Fundraising and Storytelling tips from Robbie Crabtree (big fan of his work).

Get viewing

📈 Newsletters & Growth

Starting a newsletter? Here are some fab tips on how to get your first 1,000 readers.

Get reading

Emails / Newsletters going to Spam? Here’s a very handy guide to change that - the down and dirty step by step.

Increase your odds

💰 VC’s currently deploying capital

Thanks to Alex Pattis from Riverside Ventures, and investor in Thunder.vc for sharing. Designed to a) help founders navigate the VC landscape and b) see which they are connected to on Linkedin.

Learn more

💪 B2B Saas Growth Sheet

Think diff ways to test monetisation etc. Some old, some new, but great reminder and practical tips.

Get Growing

Our calendar of startup events across NYC, features our take on the BEST events for founders. From pitch nights, to networking events, accelerators and workshops.

Some of our favourites are….

• 14/12/2023

  • 9:00am | Breakfast Club | Morgan Barrett & Lori Berenberg RSVP

  • 6:00pm | All Tech Is Human Holiday Party! Co-Creating a Better Tech Future in 2024 All Tech Is Human

    RSVP 

  • 7:00pm | Getting Funded While B2C, Techstars & J.P. Morgan

    Apply

• 18/12/2023

  • 6:00pm | Yorkseed + Bernstein Private Wealth Management Growth Stage Founders and Investors Holiday Mixer Yorkseed & ​AllianceBernstein

    Apply

• 16/1/2024

  • 6:00pm | Build the Right Team to Get Funded: Startup Grind feat. Erica Duignan Minnihan Erica Duignan Minnihan

    RSVP