What NYC really needs: A support group for founders
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What NYC really needs: A support group for founders
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Re: What NYC really needs: A support group for founders
#2I'm in the target audience for something like this, though I live in a suburb and not in The City.
It sounds awesome and I plan to sign up at my first opportunity.
Re: What NYC really needs: A support group for founders
#3nextNY may be close to what the author envisions: http://www.nextny.org/
Re: What NYC really needs: A support group for founders
#4nextNY may be close to what the author envisions: http://www.nextny.org/
nextNY isn't only founders, and is a little too big now. it is a great group of people, just not as close knit as what i'm proposing...
Re: What NYC really needs: A support group for founders
#5I'm in the target audience for something like this, though I live in a suburb and not in The City . It sounds awesome and I plan to sign up at my first opportunity.
cool - you're more than welcome, as soon as we set this up.
Re: What NYC really needs: A support group for founders
#6I'm in the target audience for something like this, though I live in a suburb and not in The City . It sounds awesome and I plan to sign up at my first opportunity.
cool - you're more than welcome, as soon as we set this up.
I'm interested as well. But I'm a little confused about the next step. Your post leads me to believe we're all supposed to contact you? I get the feeling that's not what you really want (for attendees)
Re: What NYC really needs: A support group for founders
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
cool - you're more than welcome, as soon as we set this up.
I'm interested as well. But I'm a little confused about the next step. Your post leads me to believe we're all supposed to contact you? I get the feeling that's not what you really want (for attendees)
hah - no. slight oversight, there.
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Re: What NYC really needs: A support group for founders
#8frankly I think the whole east coast vs west coast thing in startups is stupid. You can do your startup from anywhere in the world....as long as you have a decent internet connection.
You want support? Come to HN and ask for advice. You want to do some collaboration with someone? Email/skype them. You want to listen to speakers/discussions about startups? Hit up mixergy.
Why is it in the age of the web, we still try to localize everything?
The only thing that really matters "localization" wise...is capital. Because in SV you have a ton of people investing in startups. While in NYC, the same people are investing in the stock market.
That's the only difference....being able to raise a ton of money quickly, simply by being local to the people who actually want to invest in tech startups.
Re: What NYC really needs: A support group for founders
#9I'm not sure a support group is exactly what is needed -- there are a bunch of those around (nextny comes to mind, and has been around for years).
However, I do agree that the startup scene is rather fragmented here in NYC. While there definitely are neighborhoods with higher concentrations of tech startups (SoHo, Chelsea, and Dumbo come to mind), there really is no 'startup district', if you will. We don't have a neighborhood like, say, South Park, where you have a ton of smaller startup companies concentrated into a fairly small area, or even a common district home to all the large tech companies, like the bay area has. We do have a financial district, fashion district, theater district, diamond district, jazz district, etc etc.
While not totally necessary, I do think having a physical center where similar types of businesses call home is really an overlooked part of the success of an industry. It creates a community and helps facilitate a natural type of networking, solely because people doing similar things run into each other every day. Plus the after-work drinks in the neighborhood bars would probably breed even more natural business deals/partnerships. I saw that happening a lot when I worked on Wall St -- you'd be tripping over other hedge fund guys at the pubs after work, just because of the nature of the neighborhood.
That said, I'd purpose somewhere like Gowanus in Brooklyn, where leases are cheap and the neighborhood is only now starting to be developed. Lots of Gowanus also has tax incentives associated with it, as it is one of the Empire Zones. Not to mention you're close to the third largest subway stop in the city, making commuting easy. Prospect Park is a short walk away as well.
The neighborhood is bound to change to a business focused area within a couple of years anyways, once the stadium for the Brooklyn Nets is built a couple blocks away at Atlantic Yards. Might as well make it a tech-centered district.
Re: What NYC really needs: A support group for founders
#10frankly I think the whole east coast vs west coast thing in startups is stupid. You can do your startup from anywhere in the world....as long as you have a decent internet connection. You want support? Come to HN and ask for advice. You want to do some collaboration with someone? Email/skype them. You want to listen to speakers/discussions about startups? Hit up mixergy. Why is it in the age of the web, we still try…
"Why is it in the age of the web, we still try to localize everything?"
Because I still think there is something to be said about discussing things over lunch or while having a beer. Is it necessary? Of course not. But there is still something really nice about developing an in person, human connection.