I was recently interviewed by Mary Flynn of The Deal and profiled in the magazine as well. It's going to be awesome press for us, so we're really excited, but I did want to add one thing to the article.
Andrea Orr wrote:
"Path 101 doesn't operate in Silicon Valley, where even in today's tough funding climate, there's a strong fellowship in the startup community that provides at least some moral support when no financial backing is forthcoming."
Oh Andrea...Why the New York community knock? Actually, we're glad we don't operate in Silicon Valley! Instead, we're operating right where every startup should be in a difficult environment--right in the middle of where our existing network is, surrounded by supportive people who know us well.
Just the other day, we had an investor meeting with the New York based folks who have supported us from the beginning and I said to Alex, "Jeez, can you imagine if we didn't have the investors that we did. How tough would that be to just have some random angels that don't know you very well?"
If anything, there's a stronger fellowship in the New York community, because we constantly get dinged by mainstream media as a "sad assed backwater" of a tech community. We feel like we're all in it together--NYC tech against the world!
Need more proof?
nextNY is almost at 2,000 members!
A new co-working space, New Work City, just opened.
Our NY Tech Meetups are filled to the brim and sellout in minutes.
NY's own Fred Wilson won the Donor's Choose Blogger Challenge, beating out Valley competition from TechCrunch, AllThingsD