What caused New York's startup boom? - O'Reilly Radar - 0 views
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simonmart on 24 Sep 12Since the crisis of 2008 New York City's massive financial sector - the city's richest economic engine, once seen to have unlimited potential for growth - has languished. In the meantime, attention has turned to its nascent startup sector, home to Foursquare, Tumblr, 10gen, Etsy and Gilt, where VC investment has surged even as it's been flat in other big U.S. tech centers (PDF). I've started to poke around the tech community here with a view toward eventually publishing a paper on the rise of New York's startup scene. In my initial conversations, I've come up with a few broad questions I'll focus on, and I'd welcome thoughts from this blog's legion of smart readers on any of these.