• Evernote
  • Year Started: 2007 | Location: Mountain View, CA
  • Founder: Stephan Pachikov
  • Hulu
  • Year Started: 2007 | Location: Los Angeles, CA
  • Founder: Jason Kitar
  • Square
  • Year Started: 2009 | Location: San Francisco, CA
  • Founder: Jim McKelvey, Jack Dorsey (founder of Twitter)
  • Klout
  • Year Started: 2008 | Location: San Francisco, CA
  • Founder: Joe Fernandez, Binh Tran
  • Eventbrite
  • Year Started: 2006 | Location: San Francisco, CA
  • Founder: Renaud Visage, Julia and Kevin Hartz
  • Posterous
  • Year Started: 2008 | Location: San Francisco, CA
  • Founder: Sachin Agarwal
  • Scribd
  • Year Started: 2007 | Location: San Francisco, CA
  • Founder: Trip Adler, Jared Friedman, Tikhon Bernstam
  • Mint.com
  • Year Started: 2006 | Location: Mountain View, CA
  • Founder: Aaron Patzer
  • Airbnb
  • Year Started: 2008 | Location: San Francisco, CA
  • Founder: Nathan Biecharczyk, Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia
  • Dropbox
  • Year Started: 2007 | Location: San Francisco, CA
  • Founder:Drew Houston, Arash Ferdowski
  • Zimride
  • Year Started: 2006 | Location: San Francisco, CA
  • Founder: Logan Green, John Zimmer, Matt Van Horn
  • Zynga
  • Year Started: 2007 | Location: San Francisco, CA
  • Founder: Mark Pinkus
  • Twitter
  • Year Started: 2006 | Location: San Francisco, CA
  • Founder: Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams
  • Instagram
  • Year Started: 2010 | Location: San Francisco, CA
  • Founder: Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger
  • Buddymedia
  • Year Started: 2007 | Location: New York, NY
  • Founder: Mike and Kass Lazerow
  • Hunch
  • Year Started: 2007 | Location: New York, NY
  • Founder: Chris Dixon, Caterina Fake
  • Buzzfeed
  • Year Started: 2006 | Location: New York, NY
  • Founder: Jonah Peretti, John S. Johnson
  • Foursquare
  • Year Started: 2009 | Location: New York, NY
  • Founder: Dennis Crowley, Naveen Selvadurai
  • Betaworks
  • Year Started: 2007 | Location: New York, NY
  • Founder: Andrew Weissman, John Borthwick
  • Tumblr
  • Year Started: 2007 | Location: New York, NY
  • Founder: David Karp
  • TURNTABLE.FM
  • Year Started: 2011 | Location: New York, NY
  • Founder: Billy Chasen, Seth Goldstein
  • Gilt Group
  • Year Started: 2007 | Location: New York, NY
  • Founder: Kevin P. Ryan, Alexis Maybank, Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, Michael Bryzek
  • Livestream
  • Year Started: 2007 | Location: New York, NY
  • Founder: Dayananda Nanjundappa, Max Haot, Phil Worthington, Mark Kornfilt
  • Hashable
  • Year Started: 2010 | Location: New York, NY
  • Founder: Michael Yavonditte
  • 2tor
  • Year Started: 2008 | Location: New York, NY
  • Founder: John Katzman
  • Knewton
  • Year Started: 2008 | Location: New York, NY
  • Founder: Jose Ferreira
  • Kickstarter
  • Year Started: 2009 | Location: New York, NY
  • Founder: Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, Charles Adler
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To Me, the biggest difference is an appetite for risk. The investment community on the East Coast is more conservative, they aren't as willing to take a big swing at a start-up. And that trickles down through the entire ecosystem. Investors are the igniters of growth, and you can't build a start-up without capital.

  • Jason Mandell,
  • Launchsquad Co-Founder

I see people move to Silicon Valley because they can actually own homes, they have yards. There's so much access to the outdoors. You can surf every morning and still have a productive life.

  • Chris Sacca,
  • Lowercase Capital Co-Founder

New York cares to much about money. Palo Alto is home to nerdy idealists who want their product to be perfect. As long as finance continues to exist in New York, it will drain too much talent from New York's tech scene.

  • Paul Graham,
  • Y-Combinator Co-Founder

We are right in the middle of a third huge wave. I prefer to think of the bubbles as booms. I think booms are good. Booms lead to over investment.

  • John Doerr,
  • VC at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

While we have a really strong, creative workforce here in New York, there are also incredible, incredible developers and engineers. The trick is making sure that we're connecting them to all these employment opportunities and attracting them to New York City.

  • Rachel Sterne,
  • Chief Digital Officer of NYC

The software business has morphed into the Internet business. Ten years ago, maybe 80 percent of software was being built for enterprise. Now it's being written for consumers and is more media-centric than ever. And, historically, those have been New York's strongest sectors.

  • Fred Wilson,
  • Co-Founder at Union Square Venture

We understand that we will not catch up to Silicon Valley overnight. Building a state-of-the-art campus will take years -- and attracting a critical mass of technology entrepreneurs will take even longer. But -- as with everything we have done -- we are taking the long view.

  • Michael Bloomberg,
  • New York City Mayor

We're helping save the next generation of college grads that would have gone over to Morgan Stanley.

  • Chris Dixon,
  • Co-Founder of Hunch
 
 
 
 
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