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Helping to give New York an edge is a broader shift in the types of innovation that are gathering speed in the technology industry, says Dale Jorgenson, an economics professor at Harvard. The infrastructure for mobile communications and computing is now all in place, he says, so the next opportunities lie in developing new services using that technology.
“They will be behind the next boom in the industry,” he says.
Of course, services can be developed anywhere. But because so many industries now grappling with the Internet are based in New York, the city is finding surer footing among its peers as a thriving tech hub.
“Book publishing, advertising, media and even the fashion industry are all located in New York. These are the main industries that are being reshaped and redefined by technology and the Internet,” says AnnaLee Saxenian, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies regional economics and technology entrepreneurship.
To get a vivid snapshot of this new generation of Web innovation, one needs to look no further than the portfolio of Fred Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures and a force within the New York start-up scene. Run through a list of Web darlings here — Boxee, software that pipes video from the Internet to a television; Tumblr, a microblogging platform; and Foursquare, a mobile social network — and Union Square is an investor.
“The software business has morphed into the Internet business,” Mr. Wilson says. “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.
This ability to make things work for ourselves has become, in the 2010 world of instant gratification, the norm. The problem with the status quo, no matter how comfortable it is, is that it will undoubtedly be challenged (which is a good thing). There will be a time when, no matter how hard you try, you can’t make it work. You just can’t figure it out, though you feel like you should be able to. I call this moment the anomaly, and it is the most important moment of your life.
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— Rob Bales
(this is a sample from rob’s contribution to my upcoming book, the ah ha moment)
rob - a close friend i met while living in San Francisco - is easily one of the most intelligent people I know. some of my most fascinating and deep convos have been with this guy. what’s most intriguing about our relationship is that despite our seemingly antithetical personalities, we always find common ground in our beliefs, perspectives and overall approach to life. what rob will define as hard, i’ll define as life-enhancing. but in the end, these are just arbitrary terms (or emotions) seeking to define an inexplicable series of events. whether it’s falling in love, losing someone you love, getting married, raising a child, starting a company/job, losing a company/job, traveling the world and everything in between… the battles, wins and emotions involved are difficult to ascertain until personally experienced.
what matters in the end is not trying to define what something is… what matters is going out and discovering what that something means to you. life is about discovering what is and what could be… it’s about doing to find out (rather than planning to avoid)… it’s about living life in a continous state of revolution and forward progress.
Think about it, we can only be the best people we can be. The best friends, lovers, entrepreneurs, teachers. That’s it. Its up to other people to form their own opinions and reactions to what we are doing that we feel is right … I still piss people off, and there are people that still are disappointed in my words and actions, but I’m not. And that is what matters.
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— the amazing, inspiring and refreshingly authentic, micah baldwin
micah is one of of the most honest, real and genuine people i’ve ever met in my life. he reminds me to always embrace who I am, regardless of what other people think. i feel lucky having micah in my life. i also feel incredibly lucky to have his contribution in my upcoming book, the ah ha moment.
