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May 28th, 2012

From Qwiki and Branch, to TutorSpree, more tech startups are moving their offices to New York City. Why the move?

The New York Times reports:

Many new start-ups benefit from proximity to the media, advertising and fashion industries, New York’s strengths. And as the city’s industry grows, entrepreneurs say, it is offsetting some of the traditional disadvantages of being outside Silicon Valley.

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People who have founded start-ups on the East and West Coasts say there can be an advantage to being in a place like New York where tech is not so all-consuming. Those at start-ups in New York repeatedly mention the intimacy of the relatively small but tight-knit industry here — in fact, they may be the only people who say they moved to New York because they liked its small-town vibe.

May 21st, 2012

nycedc:

View more photos of our Internet Week panel last week: “NYC BigApps, Civic Hacking, Startup Success” at the beautiful The Space, Inc. at Chelsea Market.

Photo credit: Grace Cheung/NYCEDC

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May 16th, 2012

Google Geo Developers Blog names Made In NY Digital Map, "Map of the Week"

Mayor Bloomberg has high hopes for this Google Map. At the conference Bloomberg stated “We expect this map to be another tool that helps propel our tech industry forward.” With a map as beautifully designed as Made in New York, good things are sure to follow.

May 15th, 2012

NYC is open for business. 500 tech companies. 1,000 tech job openings. See them all at mappedinny.com.

May 14th, 2012

Companies are moving here.

They’re drawn by a thriving ecosystem fed by money from private investors, and supported with incubator labs and other shared work spaces, some of them sponsored by the city. There’s also proximity to hometown industries like media, advertising, fashion and finance—all going through digital disruptions—and a growing pool of engineers, as well as seasoned entrepreneurs who can offer encouragement and advice.

Tech startups moving to NYC: Wave of digital companies from across U.S. sees Big Apple as base for next-stage growth (Crain’s New York Business)

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May 7th, 2012

Why Has New York Become a Paradise for Tech Startups?

Asking budding entrepreneurs where they’d like to build their next startup often elicits the same three-word response: New York City.

Over the past four years, there’s been a 40% spike in startup financing in “Silicon Alley” — a bigger increase than anywhere else in the U.S.

April 24th, 2012

Zoom $nycedc: Crain’s New York Business reports on Brooklyn’s Tech Hotbed: Dumbo and its neighbors the Brooklyn Navy Yard and downtown Brooklyn make up a distinct area that supports some 525 tech and creative firms employing more than 9,600 people, according to a study to be released this week. While that’s only a fraction of the city’s estimated 120,000 tech jobs, Brooklyn is drawing more Manhattan refugees who come for commercial rents (around 30% cheaper than in lower Manhattan) and the lifestyle. And with the next Applied Sciences NYC Center for Urban Science and Progress coming to Downtown Brooklyn, it’s only going to get bigger and better.$

nycedc:

Crain’s New York Business reports on Brooklyn’s Tech Hotbed:

Dumbo and its neighbors the Brooklyn Navy Yard and downtown Brooklyn make up a distinct area that supports some 525 tech and creative firms employing more than 9,600 people, according to a study to be released this week. While that’s only a fraction of the city’s estimated 120,000 tech jobs, Brooklyn is drawing more Manhattan refugees who come for commercial rents (around 30% cheaper than in lower Manhattan) and the lifestyle.

And with the next Applied Sciences NYC Center for Urban Science and Progress coming to Downtown Brooklyn, it’s only going to get bigger and better.

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April 24th, 2012

Under30CEO New York highlights the City’s official mobile apps.

See the gallery of apps at NYC Digital.

April 11th, 2012

NYCEDC: NYC BigApps: Free Tickets!

nycedc:

We’re counting down the seconds until the NYC BigApps 3.0 Award Ceremony on Tuesday, April 17th, where we’ll announce the winners of Mayor Bloomberg’s annual challenge to developers to create innovative apps using official City data to serve NYC residents, businesses, and visitors. This year, we received a record-breaking ~100 eligible software apps from developers, competing for $50,000 in cash and other prizes.

Want to see what the buzz is all about? You too can join the awards ceremony and join in the BigApps fun. We’re giving out tickets via our #NYCBigAppsTix giveaway, where you’ll have a chance to receive tickets to the show the evening of Tuesday, April 17th in Chelsea. Along with the tech, investor and NYC government community, share in drinks and hors d’oeuvres and be part of the excitement as the Mayor hands out prizes for the best apps, including two Popular Choice awards.

NYCEDC and the NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunication (DoITT) have worked with more than 60 City agencies, Commissions, and Business Improvement Districts to make more than 230 new datasets available on NYC Open Data portal at www.nyc.gov/data for a total of nearly 750 available data sets. And you can help us brainstorm more!

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April 11th, 2012

Much has been made of tech’s gender divide, with the seeming consensus being that this industry is something of a sausagefest and no one knows how to fix it. But buried within this TechCrunch report, drawing on statistics from Startup Genome, is an eye-catching little factoid: Compared to Silicon Valley and London (which are running at 80:20 versus 90:10 ratios), New York has almost double the rate of female founders.

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