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  • Brooklyn Tech: Etsy

    If the décor of Etsy’s headquarters in DUMBO is any indication of what shoppers can find on its extremely popular website, then those in search of an octopus arm sculpture are in luck. Billed as the only marketplace for buying and selling handmade goods online, Etsy was founded in 2005 by Rob Kalin, Chris Maguire, […]
    (via Brooklyn Heights Blog » Brooklyn Tech)

    August 19, 2010
  • Brooklyn Tech: Pontiflex CEO Zephrin Lasker

    You know you’re in Brooklyn, or more specifically in DUMBO, when the conference room at a hugely successful digital marketing and advertising firm is nicknamed “The Dude,” after Jeff Bridges’s immortal character in “The Big Lebowski.” Pontiflex co-Founder and CEO Zephrin Lasker, 38,  exudes a similarly laid back vibe. Seated at The Dude’s conference table […]
    (via Brooklyn Heights Blog » Brooklyn Tech)

    April 29, 2010
  • Brooklyn Tech: drop.io’s Steven Greenwood

    Steven Greenwood (@sgreenwood) rarely stops smiling when talking about drop.io, the two-year old, DUMBO-based company that, in a nutshell, powers content sharing online. It could be that Greenwood, who is 32, is enthusiastic about what he does as vice president of business development at drop.io, which recently spun off a service called PressLift that Greenwood […]
    (via Brooklyn Heights Blog » Brooklyn Tech)

    April 19, 2010
  • Brooklyn Tech: Purple Rock Scissors

    Self-described techie “geeks,” like Aaron Harvey and Alex Lirtsman of the DUMBO-based firm Purple, Rock, Scissors, are really anything but. Though they’re dressed in the requisite hipster apparel—zip-up hooded sweatshirts, skinny jeans, sneakers—and toss around terms like “search engine optimization,” “conversion,” and “analytic platforms,” Harvey and Lirtsman probably have more in common with behemoth Madison […]
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    April 5, 2010