Like Crowley, Zach Sims decided to set up shop in New York when he cofounded Codecademy, a startup that teaches people how to write software code—even though his company’s early days were spent in Silicon Valley as a participant last summer in Y Combinator, a Mountain View, California-based accelerator. Sims and cofounder Ryan Bubinski had attended Columbia University in Manhattan, building up a network of people they wanted to hire, and their main investor, Union Square Ventures, is based in the city. Sims also thinks working in New York is a good way to be in touch with the kinds of people who would use Codecademy, since the startup’s offerings are geared toward people who aren’t entrenched in the tech scene—and those people are easier to find in New York than in Silicon Valley.
The Rise of the New York Startup Scene (MIT Technology Review)
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