A comprehensive interpretation of the current situation and trend of New York Science and Technology Entrepreneurship

Harrison Weber, who served on the Next web of technology blogs, shared his feelings about New York's technology industry, and then introduced some of the tech start-ups that are noteworthy to help us get a better understanding of the New York City's technology start-up ecosystem, At the same time, we understand the U.S. technology in addition to Silicon Valley. Here are all the articles:

When I first came to New York, I was reading, 1.5, and in the lure of New York's technology, I became a geek from a designer and a music producer, and once again came to New York on the next web. New York's businesses have been battered by competition for talent, money and markets, and in the end only a handful of companies that know how to adapt and make progress are the charms of New York.

Location, opportunity, development space

New York has a large number of start-ups and business incubators, starting in the southern part of New York City, spreading out over the iron zone, and stretching it all the way up to the Soho area near Chinatown, where the nickname "Silicon Alley" is a vivid illustration of this, but the New York company's tech tree has grown far more than

Last August, Courtney Boyd Myers wrote one of the coolest 5 joint offices in New York, referring to General Assembly, a company located at No. 902 Broadway Street in the Iron District, with many famous investors around. WeWork Labs, its joint office space business has expanded from the New York market to San Francisco. New Work City, known as the father of the New York United Office, has been operating for four years.

Not only these three, similar companies that offer joint office space, but also Dogpatch labs,hive at 55,tech space,greendesk,greenspaces,coworking Brooklyn, WECREATENYC, etc. These companies not only provide joint office space, but also the accelerator and incubator of entrepreneurship.

What have they changed in the year?

Every company becomes more difficult to enter, every position has a large number of competitors, only the best talent finally stay, most of the losers are gone. This change represents the development trend of New York's technology industry, of course, in a high-risk, new enterprise-intensive areas, there are losers are natural, but also a lot of success, their deeds are enough to write the Encyclopedia of Science and Technology entrepreneurship.

Dave Tisch, general manager of the technology incubation agency tech stars, has a view of the New York tech industry:

New York's technology industry has proved itself by its own development, but in some not too formal tests, the surrounding industry and the non-tech industry have not reached saturation. In the entire technological biosphere, various industries are clustered at different stations, so for many new companies, testing products at various MTR stations has different and special benefits.

The density and breadth of business in New York is a huge asset for the city, and the ubiquitous, heartfelt mutual help of startups is not the same as the rest of the world. But even if they are so united, they cannot change the trend, and many companies will fail this year, and it seems to me that this is the best thing in New York, where the technology industry is evolving in a good direction and the fittest trend has not stopped.

Against the SOPA.

New York Tech will have 24,000 members, it is one of the important reasons for the unity of the science and technology industry, but also the main force against SOPA. There is also a "New York Enterprise Science and Technology Conference," where many developers and hackers (intent, people who are passionate about solving problems, overcoming limitations) congregate, even if I can't squeeze in and see how high the quality is.

Jessica Lawrence, general manager of the New York Science and Technology Conference, said:

New York's tech industry is growing fast and maturing, and a few years ago the new company was ready to go because it didn't feel the industry's support.

New York is the only city in the United States to increase the number of wind-investment deals in 2007-2011 years, a recent study suggests. Large sums of money poured into the city, the New York Conference of Science and Technology and 299 other technology industry organizations, for these funds to find a need for their companies, the establishment of industrial mutual aid system, improve the scientific and technological circle of the ecological environment, to the new company A good space, and let the government affairs of the Science and technology industry priority, integration of finance, fashion, media , publishers and advertisers to make way for the technology industry, all of which is why New York became the center of technology industry.

Lack of talent

The problem is that there are a lot of geniuses who are willing to work hard to find jobs in New York. Sales, marketing, designers are saturated, but talented engineers are hard to find. In fact, every time I interview an entrepreneur and ask if there is a job demand, they all complain.

What does that mean? This means that engineers all over the world can come to New York to find work.

The problem will be eased in the future, with Rossford likely to set up a new science and technology University, with the New York mayor's company Bloomberg, the New York chief technology officer Rachel Sterne, as well as a series of other measures.

The Next Web discusses the pros and cons of New York with Ben Lerer:

As everyone knows, the challenge is that New York's start-up costs are high and recruitment is difficult. But I think if you're going to start a company, New York is still a great place and there are so many young geniuses you can use at your disposal. However, if the demand for skills is more specialized or special, the talent is relatively difficult to recruit.

Ben Lerer mentions the importance of nepotism in New York's media giants, something that is not available elsewhere; There are a number of first-rate design geniuses, both in the face of customers and companies that need their high quality design.

New York City

We often struggle with which politician to support, but the New York mayor, Bloomberg, has three consecutive terms with the New York tech industry.

Take a look at the things he's driven: A program selection contest and a "green" programming marathon, a public bill to improve the quality of people's lives, a strengthening of Wi-Fi and mobile signal construction on the subway, and the marking of vacant jobs on New York maps and "technology maps" so geniuses can find them.

On the government's official Tumblr, Mayor Bloomberg commented on the map as follows:

New York is a city suitable for a new company, and the company needs people, so we are committed to eliminating information asymmetry between the person looking for the job and the company looking for the capable.

This is just the latest New York government to help the technology industry, there is no doubt we will see more.

A new company worth seeing

2010 The Next Web published "New York 20 new companies", including the now famous gilt Groupe and kickstarter,2011, published a "New York noteworthy 11 new companies," which wrote GroupMe.

In order not to look as bloated as an encyclopedia, here are only a few of the fastest-growing companies.

Folio:folio is a platform for designers, illustrators, developers and various creators to sell digital content. Now only supports the file formats of Photoshop and illustrator works (PSD, EPS, AI, JPG, PNG, TIFF, PDF) and will be extended to 3D models, dynamic images, audio, photos, financial models, Word templates, and even code snippets in the future.

Movable Ink: The company offers a platform to make email "live". It is based on the user's location to produce different content, real-time and social email, its vision is to let email and the site as real-time updates, rich content. No matter how much I hate email, the movable ink model is quite appealing.

Singleplatform: Its predecessor was seamless, New York's leading online ordering system, and creator Wiley Cerilli launched the Singleplatform site in February 2010, adding social functions to the ordering system. The hotel will be able to post menus, photos, and promotions on top of it, and then singleplatform it through hundreds of partners, including hotels, city guides, hotel evaluation sites and program developers.

Wander (non-wander): The new company operating mode "very mysterious", but allegedly to do tumblr+pinterest+yelp+ Tripadvisor+foursquare, that is, light blog, picture display, the public comments, The integration of tourism search and lbs check-in Service has aroused enough attention. This year it won 1.2 million dollars to start business and hire employees, funded by NextView Ventures, Google Ventures, Softtech VC, SV Angel, collaborative Fund, Red Swan and T Echstars and other famous investors. Wander will launch the product in the second week of this month.

Jux: We noticed this beautiful free blogging platform last August and now it's getting prettier. Jux interface is simple, function is not simple, support Html5,safari and Instagram. Courtney Boyd Myers points out that Jux and Tumblr are a bit like, but Jux is more focused on "show" work than just sharing interesting pictures. (The translator strongly recommends that HTTPS be supported.) ）

Fancy hands: This is one of our favorite personal assistant services, Fancy hands use is very simple, the service is also very stable. Unlike TaskRabbit, you can't use it to get people to go to the grocery store, but when you need to book certain services to find out which of the nearby parks can walk the dog, Fancy hands to help, and data collection is its specialty.

Codecademy: Business incubator Y-combinator has invested in this site, and the site boasts the simplest way to learn to write code, which is actually an exhaustive and interactive teaching. It has attracted a lot of eyeballs this year, and its reputation has even reached the White House, as it offers summer internships that are exactly what the U.S. government has just passed the jobs bill.

NewsCred: The company is sifting through quality content, charging it, and then distributing it to paid publishers, Stone, to solve the problem of journalistic patterns (not knowing what the author says). -？ ）。 It has selected more than 700 high-quality news sources, including Orange,lenovo such as Yahoo,new, news publishers such as York, and other famous blogs, magazines, such as the Economist, Forbes, Telegraph, The Guardian,bloomberg and LA times.

CONSMR: To put it simply, the goods are a public comment, but the object is packaged food. For movies, restaurants, electronic products, games, the site has enough to comment on, but other industry reviews or primary stage, so CONSMR appeared. General pharmacies and grocery stores can find things, from beverages, quick-frozen to skincare products and so on, you can be CONSMR on the comments.

Triple Lift:triple Lift is a commitment to Pinterest marketing platform, it may become the next buddy Media, worthy of attention.

These are just a few of the things people see in the New York tech industry that we haven't dug up yet.

It doesn't make much sense to compare New York with Silicon Valley, and what I see more is that it dramatically promotes social progress, creates a lot of jobs and a huge space for development-something the world needs.

What do you think?