I’m at Clickable’s Interesting Cafe tonight to hear Fred Wilson speak about what makes the NewYork Venture Capital Startup scene special.

The presentation is up at AVC blog.

New York is a great place to do a startup, and the genesis came from a talk he did at Web 2.0 last year.

New York has 150 Technology startups vs. 336 in Silicon Valley this year. Why?

– Diversity of Industry (different ideas)
– NYC is Application Focused
– NYC is media obsessed (access to media)
– NYC is creative minded (and artists interact)
– entrepreneurs abound here
– Life style is more social, walk alot, and easier than many other places.
– Density
– International Trade Hub (non stop flight)
– People want to come here, NYC is the Mecca for many
– commercial mindset
– Immigrants
– world’s biggest stage

New York school of web design – where are we leading the way?

– Commence
– Job Search
– Advertising Tech
– SEO/SEM
– Meetup – get people off the web
– Publishing 2.0 with HuffPo and Gawker
– Email ( Daily Candy)
– Payments?

People build companies to make money.

Continue the discussion at AVC.

Jack Dorsy, cofounder of Twitter, speaks next. Twitter was founded, in a way, to connect people, off the web.

Next Chris speaks, co founder of Flickr, makes a point we need a critical mass that leads most companies to want to start / build here.

Questions:
A. With all the pressure to produce revenue, will many west coast companies move here? Fred thinks not, but NYC is coming into it’s own.

B. How much has Google done (by having it’s 2nd largest office here) to change perception that NYC is a great place to build a large business.

My take is this is the best Clickable Cafe yet and, packed.

An interesting point came up with New York’s lack of talent in Product Management. Fred Wilson said VC’s look for Product Development first, in the founder’s of the companies they invest in.

New York is going to be even more full of events going on in the next 10 days or so,  some which I plan to attend, to the extent I can attend them.  In fact, things are going on this week as well, including GirlsinTech, which I attended last night at Kush in lower Manhattan.  I’m also going to GoldenNetworking.com’s Twitter Party tonight at Johnny Utah’s. Also -BarCampNYC4 – May 30-31, 2009 happens this weekend and is already sold out (but it’s free) over at the ITP facilities at New York University – I’ll be there at least most of Saturday and maybe some of Sunday, not sure if I’ll speak or not, still thinking about it.

Internet Week officially starts June 1st and I’ll probably drop by the The TechSet Bubbles Up Innovation with PepsiCo early Monday Evening and Ignite NYC 3 .  I’ve also been invited to cover MediaBistro Circus on June 2nd and 3rd, and time permitting, I’ll be at part of the event and the networking afterwards, trying to find the new directions Social Media, Search and Web Analytics is going.   There’s also New York Tech Meetup and Facebook Garage going, not sure how much I’ll be able to cover of all the things going on, again, time and workload permitting.  I’m still trying to decide what combination of sessions I can cover at The Circus that allows me the best overall experience.  We’ll see.  There’s also First Wednesday JUNE which I’ve regularly gone to.  Next Thursday, Diggnation LIVE in NYC at Webster Hall which I planned on attending  – but there’s also an Ultra Light Startup focusing on Twitter occurring at the same time, again, I’ll figure it out.

And, a good friend is dropping by next week, Gary Angel who co-founded Semphonic.com and who I’ll meet with while he’s in town – he’s also founder of XChange Conference that I’ve attended and spoken at twice, in Northern California.

What I’ll be focusing on is what is new and emerging and meaningful in 2009 and 2010 – and that’s what I’ll write about.  In a way, I would not mind covering some of this for Entrepreneur.com, where I also write, but that’s not focus of my column which is Web Analytics, solely.

I attended Interesting Cafe last night and stayed for the first hour, had a hard time pulling myself away from Garrett Brown talking Innovation and what led to inventing the Steadicam. Turns out Garrett Brown also invented the Steadicam Merlin (for camcorders), Skycam (a robotic camera flying over wires for sporting events) along with Mobycam, Divecam and Flycam.

Wish I stayed and heard the rest of his talk .

It’s also mentioned in the meeting notes Garrett recorded for MGM as a folksinger (www.brownanddana.com) and did a lot of other stuff like sell Vokswagens. You can find out more about Garrett Brown at Garrett Brown’s website. I guess Girls In Tech at M1 could have waited another 30 or 40 minutes till I arrived.