Ask Me Anything (AMA) for Food and Beverage Founders

This will be a fun and candid conversation between founders and a pure founder exchange of best practices, experiences and stories. About this event If you're a food or beverage founder at the early stage of growing your business, you definitely do not want to miss this event. It's a great opportunity to connect with […]

Ask Me Anything (AMA) for Community-Based Entrepreneurs

This will be a fun and candid conversation between founders and a pure founder exchange of best practices, experiences and stories. About this event If you're a community or service-based entrepreneur, especially if your business has a storefront, you definitely do not want to miss this event. It's a great opportunity to connect with three […]

Ask Me Anything (AMA) for Tech Entrepreneurs

This will be a fun and candid conversation between tech founders and a pure founder exchange of best practices, experiences and stories. About this event If you're a tech founder building a consumer or enterprise software startup, you definitely do not want to miss this event. It's a great opportunity to connect with these two […]

Ask Me Anything (AMA) for Sustainability-Driven Entrepreneurs

This will be a candid conversation between sustainability-driven founders and a pure founder exchange of best practices and experiences. About this event If you're a sustainability-driven founder at the early stage of growing your business, you definitely do not want to miss this event. It's a great opportunity to connect with these two early-stage founders […]

How to Win 2022 Queens StartUP! Competition

Learn from last year's winners and their experiences of preparing and winning the competition.     About this event As we approach the deadline for the 2022 competition (3/1/2022), you’re invited to join a conversation with with three of last year's StartUP! winners and gain insight on how they prepared for the competition and pursued […]

Ladies Lunch & Learn Series:  Deducciones Fiscales para Pequeñas Empresas – 2021

Descripción del Seminario: Deducciones Fiscales para Pequeñas Empresas - 2021 Les invitamos a un seminario web gratuito, dirigido por una profesional en impuestos de pequeños negocios. Los temas a tratar incluyen: Las 25 principales deducciones para pequeñas empresas Cómo funcionan las deducciones de impuestos fiscales Qué se puede presentar como gastos comerciales Deducciones fiscales que se pueden […]

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2022 Queens StartUP! Finalists Announcement

We will announce all finalists from the four categories - Tech, Sustainability, Community, Food for the 2022 Queens StartUP! Competition.   About this event We will be announcing the finalists of 2022 Queens StartUP! Competition.   Here is a brief agenda: 12pm -12:10: Opening 12:10 - 12:15: Judge remarks 12:15 - 12:40: Finalists announcement + […]

How to pitch your startup with a compelling story

This free workshop is part of 2022 Queens StartUP! Program. Join the finalists and the instructor on how to best tell your startup stories. About this event Join the Queens StartUP! Competition program to learn how to most effectively pitch to the investors and potential customers. You will learn: Use storytelling techniques in startup presentations […]

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#1. Off The Shelf: Boosting Store Sales For Your CPG Brands

Does your CPG brand have a strategy to move products off of retailer shelves? Most brands spend so much energy getting their product ON the shelf that they struggle to sell it OFF the shelf once it’s there. Having a plan to drive sales for your product in retail is essential to ensure your product […]

Founder’s Friday: How I Built and Sold My B2B Marketplace in 4 years

  We will be sitting down with Victor Hunt. He founded and sold Astorian.com, a marketplace helping building owners hire contractors. Victor founded Astorian in 2017 at Yale, raised $2.2m in VC funding, scaled it to 30 cities, partnered with Zillow and Opendoor then sold to Plentific in 2022. Now he is exploring new ideas across […]

2023 Queens Tech + Innovation Challenge Info Session

​Presented by the Queens Borough President Donovan Richards and Queens Economic Development Corporation, the 2023 Queens Tech + Innovation Challenge is designed to help busy entrepreneurs launch or grow their startup. Its flexible schedule allows participants to join at any time between October 2022 to February 2023. ​The multi-month program offers high-level entrepreneurial classes, one-on-one […]

Queens Tech Founder Happy Hour

If you’re a tech founder or soon-to-be founder who lives in Queens, please join us and meet other founders and learn about the resources that we provide while enjoying a beer and some appetizers.

Classes are sponsored by the Small Business Association.