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Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups gr Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups grow internationally. Previously, she was the Features Editor and East Coast Editor of TNW covering New York City startups and digital innovation. She loves magnets + reading on a Kindle. You can follow her on Facebook, Twitter @CBM and Google +.
This month marks the 5 year anniversary of serial entrepreneur Charlie O’Donnell‘s nextNY, New York’s largest independent innovation community group; a platform designed to let new entrepreneurs make a positive impact in the local innovation community.
To celebrate, O’Donnell has launched nextNY’s Fellows program, which will support four new community leaders in 2011 who are looking to ramp up their careers in the start-up world. Winners will receive $500 stipends for leadership development, access to local leaders and a platform for their community-building industry activities. The real perk is the community involvement like small group lunches with VC firms and successful entrepreneurs.
In exchange, fellows are asked to maintain a digital presence, highlighting events, people, projects and stories of interest, run two nextNY networking events and adopt a nextNY “structural value” project. Applications are due January 20th, 2010.
EnergyHub, an innovative Brooklyn startup in the cleantech space, has already signed up as a sponsor, but they’re currently looking for three more.
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