Stacie Stern wears a number of hats within the Fantasy Sports Trade Association. As general manager of Head2Head Sports, she manages a growing fantasy sports business. As a member of the FSTA Board of Directors, she helps league the association’s direction in a time of tremendous growth in the industry. And as the chair of the 2015 Summer Conference Committee, she’s had a major role in shaping the conference on June 22-23 in New York City. In the second of a two part interview, Stern discusses what’s new at this year’s FSTA Summer Conference, and on the appearance of NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum at the conference.
Stacie Stern wears a number of hats within the Fantasy Sports Trade Association. As general manager of Head2Head Sports, she manages a growing fantasy sports business. As a member of the FSTA Board of Directors, she helps league the association’s direction in a time of tremendous growth in the industry. And as the chair of the 2015 Summer Conference Committee, she’s had a major role in shaping the conference on June 22-23 in New York City. In the first of a two-part interview, Stern discusses all of those roles and previews the FSTA Summer Conference:
The Fantasy Sports Trade association will release the findings of its 2015 study on June 23 at the FSTA Summer Conference in New York. Past research by the FSTA demonstrates while fantasy football and fantasy baseball remain the top two sports, both have reached a stable level of growth.
So far, 2015 has been an important year for fantasy sports from a legal and legislative aspect, and the 2015 Fantasy Sports Trade association Summer Conference will provide attendees with an update of these issues.
3 Days to NYC: Attracting investors to your fantasy sports idea The growth in the Fantasy Sports Trade Association over the past few years shows that there are still great new ideas coming to the fantasy sports world. Those ideas take time to grow, but they also take money.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that fantasy sports players are plugged into the Internet for information about their teams, their players and the latest news about the sport they play. The Internet is the predominant way to keep score in the fantasy sports.
It only took fantasy sports startup SportsLock two months from initial release of its mobile application to closing on a $5 million Series A round of financing. The Series A round officially closed in early May, but has not been announced until today.
With Times Square as its backdrop, the 2015 Fantasy Sports Trade Association’s annual Summer Conference heads to New York City to help industry leaders gain further insight from each other and some of the top fantasy sports minds in America.
Every fantasy player has a smart phone, or so it would seem. Every fantasy player has instant access 24/7 to all the data in sports. Or so it is assumed.
The most exciting two minutes in sports is the Kentucky Derby. The most exciting three minutes in fantasy sports is the Elevator Pitch, where fantasy sports entrepreneurs get to showcase their ideas in front of the attendees at the 2015 FSTA Summer Conference in New York City.