There was a wonderful conversation two weeks ago on the NY Times’ Room for Debate around “Can New York Rival Silicon Valley.” As someone who spent two years in 2003 and 2004 in NYC selling technology to Wall St trading firms and having my friends and clients wonder what this whole startup thing was about and why I was “wasting” my career doing this after doing a fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University it is great to see how vibrant the NY Startup community has become. That certainly wouldn’t have been a credible way to frame the question in 2003 and today while I hope it doesn’t try to become Silicon Valley the entrepreneurial community in NYC is second to none.
After moving back to Pittsburgh, I’ve had a chance to again watch and do my part to help technology scene develop. Pittsburgh is certainly different then NYC and Silicon Valley but I’m confident we will ultimately build a different but great startup tech community. Many attributes of Pittsburgh’s entrepreneurial community remind me of NYC in 2003. Pittsburgh and NYC are not unique — at ReadWriteWeb we’ve regularly covered places across the world in our ‘Nevermind the Valley‘ series.
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