For Tech Start-Ups, New York Has Increasing Allure
The New York Times on tech start-ups like Qwiki, TutorSpree, Shoptiques, and Branch and their business decisions to move to New York City:
People who have founded start-ups on the East and West Coasts say there can be an advantage to being in a place like New York where tech is not so all-consuming. Those at start-ups in New York repeatedly mention the intimacy of the relatively small but tight-knit industry here — in fact, they may be the only people who say they moved to New York because they liked its small-town vibe.
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Twitter ex-CTO is Cornell's Founding Entrepreneurial Officer for its NYC tech campus
The Verge on Greg Pass:
“I don’t know how you say no to this kind of chance,” Pass told us, “especially when the tech scene in New York City is really starting to take off,” pointing to companies like Fancy, Artsy, Readability, and Kickstarter, each of which add a tech spin to traditional New York industries like advertising, art and architecture, publishing, and finance.
“One of the ingredients of innovation and collaboration is just having talented people be in proximity to each other,” Pass says. “What we have in New York are sectors where you have many creative people, but not necessarily many creative engineers.”
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Cornell’s High-Tech Campus Will Have a Temporary Home at Google
In The New York Times:
“We feel it is so central to the future of our society that it’s extremely important that we train an increasing number of talented people in computer science,” said Alfred Spector, a vice president for engineering at Google. “New York is our second-largest engineering lab. We have felt there is a strong base of talent in the metropolitan region. That has made this a desirable place to be, and we want to make sure that continues.”
