About Us

About The New York Egotist
The New York Egotist is a website that is obsessed with the latest happenings in New York's startup, new media, and marketing scenes. We’re especially interested in the intersection of marketing, communication and technology and the badass work our city’s young companies are doing in those fields.

Manifesto
Do you remember when marketing and technology stayed far, far away from each other, like a bitter divorced couple at their son’s bar mitzvah? We don’t, and it’s not just because of all the Manischewitz. It’s because we’re young, forward-thinking and embarking on an amazing new era in NYC. New York tech is back, and marketing and communications have come to join the party. Have no doubt: The fusion of these three will mix better for the ad game than Don Draper, an “old-fashioned” and a secretary.

Venture capital is flowing into the New York startup scene and new companies are popping up every day. Our goal is to chronicle—and celebrate!—the rise of the NYC startup scene while answering a few key questions for you:

-What tech startups can help my marketing agency go digital?

-What marketing agencies can my tech startup help go digital?

-What sexy startups should my VC firm back?

-How the hell do I get funding?

We’ll also tell you who’s hot, who’s not, who’s hiring, who’s firing, and who’s work makes us squeal with delight…in, you know, a cool way.

We’ve got that entrepreneurial spirit. So do you. So send us your work, tips, gossip, job openings or a “hey hey” to newyork@theegotist.com. Trust us, we’ll respond. And if we dig the work you’re doing, we’ll be ticked to come visit your shop. Above all, we want to highlight what’s hot.

This is our moment, New York. Let's go crazy...

Who We Are

JOE LAZAUSKAS, Editor-in-Chief

Joe has been a marketing and tech nerd since he can remember and has worked in online media since before he could legally buy cigarettes. He is the Director of Content and Community for The Faster Times and moonlights for a social marketing technology studio in New York. You can reach him at newyork@theegotist.com and on twitter @nyegotist.

ADAM WILSON, Associate Editor

Adam Wilson’s first novel, Flatscreen will be published by Harper Perennial in Winter 2012. He is a former culture columnist for Blackbook, and a former TV blogger for Flavorwire. His journalism, criticism, and fiction have appeared in many publications including Bookforum, The New York Times, The Paris Review Daily, Meridian, Washington Square Review, Gigantic, Time Out New York, The Forward, Paste, Boldtype, The Rumpus, JBooks, Ralph Lauren’s Rugby.com, and the anthologies Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex, Promised Lands: New Jewish Fiction on Longing and Belonging, and the forthcoming A Friday Night Lights Companion: Love, Loss, and Football in Dillon, Texas. He holds a BA from Tufts University, and an MFA from Columbia University, where he received a Merit Fellowship. He has thrice been a finalist for Glimmer Train story prizes, and was also a finalist for the 2009 Canteen Prize, and the 2009 Gulf Coast Prize. In 2007 he was honored as a Distinguished Lecturer by the Lewis and Mildred Resnik Institute for the Study of Modern Jewish Life at SUNY, New Paltz. He lives in Brooklyn with his cat.Email: adamwilson@thefastertimes.com

JAMES TYNION IV, deputy editor

James Tynion IV is a writer and editor living in Manhattan who spends his days absorbing any media he can get his hands onto. Special preferences include, but are not limited to Comic Books, Animation, and British Television in general. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, James recently spent time working for the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. You can reach him via email at james@thefastertimes.com, or follow him on Twitter @JamesTheFourth.

ANNIE-ROSE STRASSER, Staff Writer

Annie-Rose Strasser is a hip young person with an iPhone. Her favorite apps are nature-, style- and cooking-related. Her tech interests include marketing and graphic design. By May, she will have a B.A. from the George Washington University.

AMANDA WALGROVE, Badass Intern

Amanda began her relationship with technology based on an "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" attitude and has since passed the point of no return. While she will probably never be ready to hand in her library for a Nook, she understands that the future of journalism, social interaction, and her desired livelihood all lie in strings of 1's and 0's. She also contributes to The Faster Times.

MANDY FISHER, Badass Intern

Mandy has an iPhone but grew up with IBM so prefers PCs to Macs, Nintendo to Playstation, and pays all of her bills online. After submitting to societal pressure, she finally has a Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, Tumblr, and LinkedIn account, but she'll only ask you to follow her here @mandyofish. She is a current editor of Momtrends.com, MomtrendsNYC.com, and also contributes to The Faster Times.