New York's Present and Future as a Place to Foster Innovation and Entrepreneurship: A nextNY Community Conversation

 

New York City is certainly a major hub for startup companies, but can it get better?

 

February 28th, 2007 6:30PM - 8:30PM

Location: \"CRESA Partners

100 Park Avenue, Floor 24 (entrance on 41st Street)

NY, NY 10017\"

onNYturf Subway map

 

What is a Community Conversation?

 

Think of it as an "un-panel" (or salon... whatever works for you) . We have "conversation leaders" but there are no tiers. Everyone is part of the audience and everyone can participate. We put 6-8 leaders into the crowd and lean on them to contribute the guiding thoughts behind our conversation, but we rely on much audience participation, questions, etc. to move things along.

 

Outline/Questions

 

New York City is certainly a major hub for startup companies, but can it get better? How?

 

Check out these related posts:

 

http://www.darrenherman.com/2007/02/28/nextnys-nychub-event/

 

http://blog.nextny.org/blog/2007/1/28/appleseeds-and-nyc-startup-culture.html

 

http://innonate.com/2007/02/08/cafebricolage-the-nyc-solution-is-a-hot-plate/

 

http://www.jcurvechronicles.com/blog/2007/02/01/can-a-startup-friendly-culture-be-created-in-nyc/

 

building online community in the real world

 

http://www.venturevoice.com/2006/05/startup_geography_new_york_vs_1.html

 

Here are some general questions and topics we'd love to see covered:

 

What are NYC's strengths as a technology and startup hub?

 

What are it's weaknesses? Which of these weaknesses can be improved?

 

Comment on:

 

Costs

Talent pool

Lifestyle

Availability of capital

Knowledge resources

Professional services

Creativity

Entreprenuers

 

Conversation Leaders

 

Jerry Colonna, Former Editor, Investor, Consultant

 

Saul Shapiro, Vice President Client Services: Information, Technology and Sustainability Sectors New York City Economic Development Corp.

 

Franklin Madison, Technology Program Director at ITAC

 

Dennis Crowley, Dodgeball (Google)

 

Alejandro Crawford, Nolej

 

Darren Herman

 

Attendees

 

1. Charlie O'Donnell
2. T.J. Duane
3. Ken Rossi
4. Shreyas Pandit
5. Jonah Keegan
6. Jason Olim
7. Frank Bradshaw
8. Ed Costello
9. Lee Semel
10. David Rosenstrauch
11. Josh Guttman
12. Ben Stein
13. David Chen
14. Chris McAleenan
15. Nate Westheimer
16. Dan Putt
17. Corey Henderson
18. David Evans
19. Hiren Patel
20. Matthew Myers
21. Jeffrey Arnold
22. Scott Cherkin
23. Jason White
24. Vinicius Vacanti
25. Thomas Maloney
26. Avinash Karnani
27. Noel Hidalgo
28. Michael Galpert
29. Howard Greenstein
30. Christian Busch
31. Niraj Shah
32. Eric Popivker
33. Eric Yoon
34. Kristian Hansen
35. Naveen Selvadurai
36. Perry Lin
37. Tim Marman
38. Rajiv Kukreja
39. Par Gandhi
40. Doug Krugman
41. Mark Rothbaum
42. Aleks Jakulin
43. Henning Seip
44. Greg Galant
45. Naveed Hasan
46. Jonathan Wegener
47. BillSeitz
48. Ken Berger
49. Lisa Prosser
50. Ralph Warren
51. Abhay Kumar
52. Rachel Clarke
53. Tracy Sheridan
54. Ilia Malkovitch
55. Anthony Casalena
56. Gregg Donovan
57. Michael Salmon
58. Ryan O'Donnell
59. Carl Jaramello
60. Alexis Geaneotes
61. Amanda Kelso
62. Shehzad Daredia
63. Kelvin Tsang
64. Michael Katz
65. Jimmy Wan
66. Perry Chui
67. Danny Wen
68. Keith Hopkin:http://www.ArtworkNotAvailable.com
69. Mark Lewis
70. Philip James - just in under the wire
71. Abhishek Sud
72. Amnon Meiri
73. Brett P.
74. Mica Scalin
75. Brian Litvack
76. Rachel Sterne
77. David Cohn
78. Steve Rosenbaum
79. Emeri Yarnoff
80. Morgan Friedman
81. Kenneth Musante

 

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Bloggers/Photos

 

• Ed Costello
• Caroline McCarthy

 

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