The Debrief: John Suozzi is breaking with suburbia
Who is John Suozzi? That’s a tough one, even for John Suozzi. Self-described as “someone who’s still being made,” he’s a 2011 Drexel University graduate with a degree in entrepreneurship…
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Chris and Ben’s exhaustive search for a better vacuum
By GREGORY ZELLER // Vacuuming with those canister-shaped wet/dry vacuum cleaners can lead to a real dust up. That, at least, is the problem encountered by East Setauket father/son inventing…
Drinking deep from the Internet of Things
By MITCH MAIMAN // The hottest buzz phrase these days is Internet of Things, or IoT. Broadly speaking, IoT is shorthand for smart, networked devices utilizing applications to communicate all…
Sam Altman is, no surprise, focused and intense
Sam Altman is the just-turned-30 president of Y Combinator, the world’s most prestigious accelerator and the booster behind $30 billion worth of startups, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Zenefits and Stripe. He…
DraftKings escalates its NY legal fight
DraftKings, the embattled Boston-based online fantasy sports startup, filed suit on Friday against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for attempting to “bully” the company into halting operations in the Empire…
Luis Gonzalez is InterConnecting the Americas
By GREGORY ZELLER // For Luis Gonzalez and his sales and marketing boosting InterConnecta, the future was on Long Island. And, it turns out, also in Peru. There were specific…
Eddie Cross wants to avoid fall cleanup
By GREGORY ZELLER // Eddie Cross got the drop on his first-ever invention 15 years ago, when he took a tumble inside a local bank branch, slipping on a wet…
For Digital Fly, winging it pays off
Digital Fly is apparently taking off. Since officially launching in September, the real-time social media monitoring and alert service – designed to safeguard school districts from threats big and small…
At Ms. Michelle’s, the chips are up
By GREGORY ZELLER // Michelle Gillette Kelly is living the American Dream. The gluten-free version, anyway. The baker and her products have gone through several permutations in recent years, from…
Reed Phillips is digging those good vibrations
By GREGORY ZELLER // Renewable energy is boundless and everywhere – the ocean, the cars zooming by on the highway, even the mom pushing a baby stroller through the park…
The Debrief: Robert Harrison’s 2,000X laptop
As a chemist and a mathematician, Robert Harrison appreciates the vital role computers play in all modern sciences. As director of Stony Brook University’s Institute for Advanced Computational Science and…
North Shore-LIJ inks ENT partnership
The North Shore-LIJ Health System has formed a “first on Long Island” clinical affiliation with ENT and Allergy Associates, an LLP treating over 70,000 monthly patients across New York and…
Lesko, Brofman and cash prizes at Molloy pitch event
The popularity of the ABC’s Shark Tank has spawned a number of imitations, including flattery from LaunchPad, NYIT and Stony Brook University. The latest, organized by a Molloy student, will…
Varun Mehta’s voyage of self-Disqovery
By GREGORY ZELLER // When founder and CEO Varun Mehta incorporated app-maker Disqovery Inc. in 2013, even he wasn’t sure what, exactly, it would be. Then a student at Harvard…
Ruchi Shah creates a buzz
By GREGORY ZELLER // There’s ingenuity, there’s determination and there’s rock-solid fundamental science. Then there’s Ruchi Shah. To say the Stony Brook University senior – hurtling toward a bachelor’s degree…