New York Launch Pod: A Podcast Highlighting New Start-Ups, Businesses, and Openings in the New York City Area (NY Launch Pod) - Episode 1: Evan Hammer, Co-Founder of Smart Host | Dynamic pricing recommendations for short-term properties on sites including Airbnb, HomeAway and FlipKey

Episode 1: Evan Hammer, Co-Founder of Smart Host | Dynamic pricing recommendations for short-term properties on sites including Airbnb, HomeAway and FlipKey

03/13/15 • 21 min

New York Launch Pod: A Podcast Highlighting New Start-Ups, Businesses, and Openings in the New York City Area (NY Launch Pod)

Evan Hammer, co-founder of Smart Host, joins the New York Launch Pod in its first episode! Smart Host is a one-year-old start-up based out of New York City that provides dynamic pricing recommendations for short-term vacation rental properties on sites such as Airbnb, HomeAway and FlipKey. Vacation rentals are a multi-billion dollar industry and Smart Host thinks owners are losing out on a lot of revenue! Whether it’s because property owners and managers are too busy or just don’t have enough data at their fingertips, Smart Host discovered that vacation rental prices are largely stagnant and in a short period of time in New York City the average hotel price varied by 124% while the average vacation rental price varied by only 18%. Find out how Evan and his team set out to provide property owners and managers with more resources, founded their company in only three days, where the future of real estate data is going, and why Evan thinks his company has an advantage over the big players in the market.

Transcript of the episode available here: http://nylaun.ch/smarthostt

More on Smart Host: https://smarthost.me/

Transcript of the episode available here: http://nylaun.ch/smarthostt

More on Smart Host: https://smarthost.me/

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Episode 2: Mathew Farkash, Co-Founder of Blueprint Health | The New York City based health accelerator

Mathew Farkash, co-founder of Blueprint Health, a New York City based health accelerator, joins the second episode of the New York Launch Pod to discuss the unique set of challenges that face health care start-ups. Blueprint Health was recently named by Fast Company as one of the top ten most innovative companies in health care, an incredible accomplishment when Mathew and his co-founder Dr. Brad Weinberg teamed up to start one of the first health care specific accelerators. Find out how Blueprint Health built, from scratch, the largest health care specific mentor community of any accelerator in the world and the benefits that provides to participants in Blueprint Health’s program. Listen to hear why Mathew believes New York City is the best place for health care start-ups and what Blueprint Heath looks for in entrepreneurs when it selects only 3% of companies from the hundreds that apply to its program.

Transcript of the episode available here: http://nylaun.ch/Blueprintt

More on Blueprint Health: https://www.blueprinthealth.org/