Last week’s Shatterbox Salon, featuring our very own Shatterbox and held at The Tank artspace in New York City, brought out the best in aspiring entrepreneurs and those look for Shatterbox’s unique form of career inspiration.
Shatterbox was kind enough to share a few photos from the evening.
One of the newest Shiners in our Tribeca West office community is Shatterbox, a new video-based social community targeted and students and young professionals. In their own words:
We are a video-based social community for students and young professionals to find inspiration and share ideas about innovative careers. Our films are 100% original, HD-quality, and free of charge to individuals all over the world who are hungry to make their mark.
We’ve found the most passionate, cutting edge young trailblazers we can get our camera on and asked them, simply, to share their stories. Our archive of fascinating shatterbox stories will grow as we seek new characters to feature across limitless industries. And we want you to join the conversation. Leave your comments, share your ideas and your stories, connect with other users, and find yourself a little closer to making your mark.
To bring Shatterbox’s mission of empowerment to the world, they’ll be hosting the first Shatterbox Salon, this Monday, July 19, at The Tank artspace in Manhattan. It’s a must-attend event for those looking for a little direction or a lot of inspiration in their careers.
Sunshine was thrilled to participate in the excellent “Social Networking Your Small Business” event during Internet Week, hosted by Ultra Light Startups and Brightmap. Here are some photos from the excellent evening, taken by Sunshine’s own Shiner David Tunstall.
Be sure to also check out our insightful and inspiring Q&A with Brightmap/Ultra Light startups head Graham Lawlor here.
During Social Media Week 2010, Sunshine NY was fortunate enough to get to host a panel on interactive social media for start-ups and small businesses featuring Vaynermedia, Yipit and Brightmap.
We at Sunshine have been excited about the launch of Brightmap for a while, as it serves an exciting and needed purpose in the landscape of social tools–to network businesses to one another. Launched by Ultra Light Startups’ Graham Lawlor, Brightmap is, company by company, connecting businesses, services and vendors in important and revolutionary ways.
On Tuesday June 8th, during Internet Week, Ultra Light Startups and Brightmap are hosting a discussion on “Social Networking Your Business”. Featuring Sunshine’s own Cheni Yerushalmi and one of our resident Shiners Sabir Semerkant, this event is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to learn how to unleash the power social tools like Brightmap truly hold for their businesses. We asked event coordinator and Brightmap/Ultra Light Startups’ own Graham Lawlor a few questions about his history in business, his work as an entrepreneur and the future of social media for small businesses.
The Sunshine crowd works hard and plays harder. Here are some pictures from a recent softball game which we ended up winning to put us at 5-0 on the season. We’ve got game #6 tonight, expect an update (hopefully a good one) next week!
You can check out the rest of the pictures here. Also, make sure to read the summaries of previous softball games here and here, they’re great.
Last Tuesday Sunshine Suites held a meet and greet for all the Shiners at our Noho location last Tuesday, May 18th. It was a great time, partially due to the pizza and Bud Light but mostly because of all the great people there.
To check out some more pictures you can view the photo album here.
Softball season is in full swing (get it, full swing? Ha!) here at the Sunshine NY community of small businesses and entrepreneurs. As such, we’re thrilled to bring you a recap of the second game of the Sunshine season, written by Tim Smith, owner of award-winning NYC Event Video Company Avenue 5 Films
Your intrepid Sunshine softball team reporter was a little worried about the team’s prospects for last Friday’s game 2 after running into powerhouse hitter Jenny Alcebo in the NoHo office an hour before game-time and finding out she wouldn’t be suiting up due to what can only be deemed a brain fart. “I have to babysit tonight,” Alcebo said unapologetically. “I totally forgot there was a softball game.” If this dedication to the team was contagious, the Shiners would surely be in trouble. I hopped in a cab with Adrian the phone man, slick fielding shortstop Tony and Sarah the self-proclaimed “PocketAsian’ (so says the back of her jersey) making it to the field on 28th and 10 with 20 minutes to spare before first pitch.
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Here at Sunshine Suites, we mean it when we say we’re truly an office community–we play just as hard we work. For entrepreneurs, the office is the playing field, so the chance to let loose with a game of softball with fellow hard-working individuals is both an excellent networking opportunity and a much-needed break for fun. One of the members of our very own New York office community, Tim Smith, sent us this great recap of the first game of the Sunshine Suites softball season–just one of the many sports and networking activities engaged in inside the community that is Sunshine.
The sun wasn’t shining at the start of the Sunshine Suites softball team’s first game of the 2010 season in Queens, but that didn’t dampen the spirits or bats of the 15 players that braved the weather and showed up anyway. Things started out rough as rookie Sunshine pitcher Bill Mailler got rocked in the first inning, giving up 4 runs. The laid back Sunshine team was actually content to take a beating as long the two cases of Bud Light on the bench were there to ease the pain. But when the opposing team’s manager complained to the ump about the drinking, Shiner’s took offense and punished the opposition with an onslaught of hits and some great defense plays by Kondo, Tony and Brianna. Meanwhile, Shiners weren’t deterred by the no Bud Light rule either, using their gloves to hide their cans and surreptitiously sip the brew. “Drinking while playing was awesome,” Shiner first baseman Tim Smith said, “Until my third at bat after my fourth beer when I actually saw two balls come out of the pitcher’s hand. I just guessed which one was real and took a cut.”
Mailler was solid after that shaky first inning by limiting the other team to only 2 more runs while striking out an impressive 7 batters. A three run homer by Kondo that eluded 3 fielders who seemed to have holes in their gloves gave the Shiners all the runs they would need and the margin for a 12-6 victory. Adrian- the Shiner phone-man- cracked open a bottle of Patron after the game so the buzz wasn’t lost on the F train ride to the Blue Room Bar in Manhattan, where Shiners celebrated their victory into the wee hours of the night. Team Captain Caitlin McConnel was asked to describe her feelings after the team pulled off its first of what will be many wins, but she was too busy trying to give teammate Jenny Alcebo’s cat away to anyone who promised not to cook it.
Entrepreneur Week is about to descend on the community of small businesses and startups in New York, and the community at Sunshine NY couldn’t be more excited.
From the New York Entrepreneur Week website, a little about the events, panels, discussions and opportunities, and the modus operandi behind the whole operation:
Entrepreneurs are the catalysts for overcoming today’s economic odds, and we’re setting the stage in New York for this groundbreaking event to catapult entrepreneurs to even greater success.
Our goal is to make connections across diverse industries, from young idea-stage innovators to hundred million dollar revenue generators, and join them together in a unifying movement that propels inspired business, facilitates lasting connections, and generates opportunities for more successful entrepreneurial ventures.
New York Entrepreneur Week (NYEW) is the first movement of its kind, providing a framework for unifying the state’s most important entrepreneurial groups with the vastly diverse entrepreneurial community. NYEW is New York State’s premier forum where entrepreneurs can learn, grow, connect and leverage opportunities to do what they do best: drive economic change in exponential ways.
Obviously, our core goals at Sunshine as a community focused on networking small businesses and startups are perfectly matched by Entrepreneur Week, and so we’re very proud to offer an exclusive Sunshine NY discount of 75% off of registration.
To claim your discount, use the code sunshine2010 at checkout. To learn more about NY Entrepreneur Week’s events and happenings, visit the NYEW site here .
Feb 4, We’re thrilled to present Sunshine’s 1st Yammer Day and Social Media Week Event!
Also, the evening of Feb 4, join us at Tribeca West at 630 PM for a roundtable talk about social media and small business with VaynerMedia, Yipit and Britemap.com, moderated by me!
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I am unable to wrap my head around the fact as to why any entrepreneur in NYC would not be in this building considering the price and networking opportunities.
We will certainly never find a better price and I would be surprised if we will ever find the same service we get at Sunshine.
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