Nightlife Lessons: How I Conquered the Business of Partying with Tech and a Glimpse into Its Future

Everything Shane Neman needed to know about business and life he learned in the gritty, chaotic New York City nightclub scene.

In Nightlife Lessons, Neman takes you behind the velvet ropes so you can too. With sharp insight, humor, and gratitude, the three-time startup founder and venture capitalist shows in this unlikely business book how with tenacity and ambition, you can transform any industry.

In the pre-social media and camera-phone days of the new millennium and fresh off his failed first business, Neman was starting from scratch with no budget but a huge idea: bring the hopelessly outdated event promotion and hospitality worlds into the digital age. The result is JoonBug, which blended his passion for partying and nose for technology to become a multimillion-dollar stepping stone to serial entrepreneurship and a grounded personal life.

Neman connects with a wide range of players: from drag queens, ravers, and club kids, to celebs, Wall Street suits, and bridge-and-tunnel partiers, to the city’s most influential club owners and promoters. Using Neman’s tech innovations, all mix and mingle at iconic venues, whether dilapidated warehouses or Swarovski-studded alcoves of luxury. Nightlife Lessons is packed with perceptive takeaways from his comeback, advice on how industry insiders still need to evolve, and predictions for how partiers will experience nightlife in the future.

Neman’s business path is an inspirational ride through New York’s hot spots.

If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere . . . and take it with you everywhere.

Learn more at www.NightlifeLessons.com.

Shane Neman is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and real estate developer. After dropping out of NYU Medical School and failing at his first startup during the tech-bubble bust of the early 2000s, Neman started over. He built his second venture, JoonBug, into a multimillion-dollar digital events powerhouse that thoroughly disrupted the outdated events and hospitality industry. He subsequently founded a successful SaaS business, EZ Texting, the largest business SMS software platform in the United States.

Now, as a venture capitalist, Neman is a prolific backer of startups, including Impossible Foods, Athletic Greens, SandboxAQ, Cirkul, Flexport, Convoy, Prose, Kraken, Obe, Deep Sentinel, Anvyl, Future, MapAnything, VinePair, Hyperice, and Gupshup. He is also an investor, developer, and manager of various real estate properties from commercial shopping and industrial centers to large residential buildings, running a portfolio of over twenty properties in major metropolitan cities across the U.S.

Learn more at www.ShaneNeman.com.