(2009-11-18) Nyc Startup Scene

Fred Wilson gave a talk in September about NYC's Start Up scene. Earlier that month he had a shorter post about it. On Nov10 he posted about the timing of development of the city's EcoSystem. In the first decade, you are largely making it up, copying what works elsewhere, the VCs and entrepreneurs are largely doing it for the first time, and while you can have successes, they are mixed with a lot of failures. That was 1995 to 2005 in New York City and 1965 to 1975 in Silicon Valley. In the second decade, you start to get it right. The entrepreneurs are doing it for the second or third time. The infrastructure has developed (lawyers, VCs, recruiters). And it is easier to get talented employees to do a startup. This is where we are in New York City now and is where Silicon Valley was from 1975 to 1985.

Now Anil Dash makes his own case for the same idea.

Are Nyc Challenges over? Well, inherently impossible. Are the surmountable?...

Stowe Boyd: There's a reason I am moving here.