Comments on: New York can’t & shouldn’t try to rival Silicon Valley http://gigaom.com/2011/08/04/new-york-cant-and-shouldnt-try-to-rival-silicon-valley/ Sun, 19 May 2013 03:00:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Darron Antill http://gigaom.com/2011/08/04/new-york-cant-and-shouldnt-try-to-rival-silicon-valley/#comment-678888 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:46:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=388482#comment-678888 I could not agree more – AppSense is a great case study. New York can’t & shouldn’t try to rival Silicon Valley http://t.co/Tt4zSdMd

]]> By: John Winger http://gigaom.com/2011/08/04/new-york-cant-and-shouldnt-try-to-rival-silicon-valley/#comment-645646 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:20:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=388482#comment-645646 Silicon Valley boring as hell and mostly male (nerds actually). NYC is a far cooler place to live and work. Why would anyone want to be in the Valley instead of the Alley!?

]]> By: David H. Deans http://gigaom.com/2011/08/04/new-york-cant-and-shouldnt-try-to-rival-silicon-valley/#comment-645042 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:50:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=388482#comment-645042 I believe there’s some confusion here, and a simple explanation. Bloomberg’s PR effort to compare NYC to the Silicon Valley is a metaphor for the area’s economic development objectives — it’s not intended to be taken literally.

Ditto for the UK government’s “East London Tech City” initiative. The problem with using a these well-intentioned analogies is it sometimes creates misunderstandings.

Case in point: the original “Silicon Roundabout” district of East London wasn’t given that name because they have a cluster of semiconductor companies.

In time, I’d expect each digital/tech cluster will establish their own distinctive identity and associated value proposition.

]]> By: RR http://gigaom.com/2011/08/04/new-york-cant-and-shouldnt-try-to-rival-silicon-valley/#comment-644931 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:59:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=388482#comment-644931 Amen to that. Ridiculous.

]]> By: Bennett http://gigaom.com/2011/08/04/new-york-cant-and-shouldnt-try-to-rival-silicon-valley/#comment-644930 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:58:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=388482#comment-644930 NYC doesn’t want to become SV, NYC wants to trump SV. It already has it’s unique culture and success stories. It will be a silent march, and one day we will wake up and say, Wow, all of these acquisitions and IPO’s are from NYC companies and VC’s… that’s what will happen, IMO.

]]> By: ronald http://gigaom.com/2011/08/04/new-york-cant-and-shouldnt-try-to-rival-silicon-valley/#comment-644777 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:16:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=388482#comment-644777 “So, rather than obsess over clusters, we need to start obsessing over people. We need to remove the obstacles to entre­pre­neur­ship — such as knowledge of how to start companies, fear of failure, lack of mentors and networks, government regulations and financing. And we need to repair our university research commercialization system so that research breakthroughs translate into invention. That’s the correct formula for nurturing regional growth.”[1]

1. [Vivek Wadhwa] Industry clusters: The modern-day snake oil
http://wadhwa.com/2011/07/15/washington-post-industry-clusters-the-modern-day-snake-oil/

]]> By: Matt http://gigaom.com/2011/08/04/new-york-cant-and-shouldnt-try-to-rival-silicon-valley/#comment-644772 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:48:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=388482#comment-644772 Drop the publishing requirements for LLCs that’s a good start

]]> By: Marianne Bellotti http://gigaom.com/2011/08/04/new-york-cant-and-shouldnt-try-to-rival-silicon-valley/#comment-644769 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:33:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=388482#comment-644769 “educate the underprivileged to become entrepreneurs”

Statement like this are everything that’s wrong with the way organizations try to build “startup infrastructure” It assumes that diversity is absent from the startup world because entrepreneurship takes special elite skills that minorities, the underprivileged and women are not familiar with.

The skills of a good entrepreneur are SURVIVAL skills. Everyone has them. Everyone has the ability to use them. Underprivileged people do not need “education” on becoming entrepreneurs they need ACCESS. Which means they need ways of breaking into the scene and meeting people that do not involve paying $100 – $1000+ up front for a conference/workshop/panel discussion or working for free as an “intern” for six months.

Those opportunities are out there but they need to be encouraged, promoted, and there need to be more of them.

]]> By: Jordan Lampe http://gigaom.com/2011/08/04/new-york-cant-and-shouldnt-try-to-rival-silicon-valley/#comment-644751 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:24:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=388482#comment-644751 Great summation and overall piece, Ryan. I haven’t spent much time in the Alley or the Valley compared to some, but you can definitely tell a difference in culture (energy, attitudes, tenacity). That’s not a bad thing. Matter of fact, it’s a great thing. It provides diversity in thought and product.

Wherever you come from, Alley, Valley, or Prairie, I think you should cultivate the culture around you and nurture it to prominence. Sure, building programs to support the atmosphere is crucial, but do in a way that makes sense locally. Transplanting and then enforcing a foreign model/system into a region is always a disastrous idea (Note: See the Middle East).

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