The New York Internet community is thriving!
I participated last night in an Internet entrepreneur ping pong tournament organized by Spark Capital. It was incredibly well attended – Fred Wilson, Chris Dixon, Kevin Ryan, Dina Kaplan, Charlie O’Donnell, Dan Allen and many more made an appearance as well as a few West Coasters who happened to be in town including Loic Lemeur.
What is amazing is that as amazing as the event was, this type of event is becoming commonplace in New York. When I started Zingy in New York in 2001, the tech scene was all but dead, but now there are many interesting events happening daily.
Aspiring entrepreneurs can join or attend any of the following:
• The Founders Roundtable organized by Amol Sarva, the founder of Peek
• New York Tech Meetup
• The Hatchery
• New York Entrepreneur Week
• The Bootstrapper Summit
• Web 2.0 Expo
• Web2NewYork
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Hi Iabrice’
I also agree, I think there is definitely a real growing tech buzz, going NYC , I found this article ‘Why You Should Start a Company in… New York’
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/maccabee-montandon/upswing/why-you-should-start-company-new-york
how did you do?
Finals only 🙁 I am used to playing ping pong against tennis players who put a lot of top spin. I am not used to playing people against people who use spin, etc.
Fabrice let a lone 2001 even 2005 NYC was still lagging behind but it seems the town has woke up.very encouraging trend indeed and wish it can be duplicated in other major cities.
thanks for the tip 🙂 I'll improve my game in that directions for our next confrontation 🙂
I agree that the startup scene is lively in NYC. This is an interesting article as well http://www.mikekarnj.com/blog/2009/12/21/new-york-startup-movement/ and if you are interested here is a rather negative counter perspective http://zedshaw.com/blog/2010-01-19.html.
Also check out http://thestartupdigest.com/ for a weekly email with the best startup events in a particular city