Recently there has been a lot of talk about the New York startup scene (I covered a lot of New York-based metaverse companies in this post ) and how we can improve it.

I proposed a simple litmus test with this scenario on the NY Tech Meetup mailing list: Larry Page and Sergey Brin are in New York and they are not connected yet (and no, they did not conveniently work for an investment bank or a VC before) and they try to start Google in NYC. If they can get to where they are today in NYC, then we have what we are looking for.

This thread was initiated after reading this article about many Silicon Valley networking companies are now organizing their invstor/entrepreneur networking events in Los Angeles and how it’s helping the local economy and the startup scene.

We have many excellent networking events in New York City, probably more than any other place other than Silicon Valley. But we still believe this is not enough. As a community we will work on attracting as many networking companies to NYC as possible so we can have many successful startups in the city.

One part of this will be a non-profit organization, (very similar to Svase, if not a branch of it) that will be a central community of NY entrepreneurs, founders and startup people. The organization will provide a forum for entrepreneurs for learning, solving problems common to all startups, brainstorming, getting access to resources and more with the goal of creating many successful startups.
In the meantime, if you are a newcomer to the NY startup scene, here are some first steps (non-comprehensive) to get acquainted with fellow entrepreneurs:

http://groups.google.com/group/SeedCapital

http://newtech.meetup.com/1/

http://newtech.meetup.com/21/

http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/305/

http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1124/
There are definitely more events/resources out there, some of them invitation-only like the Founders Club.

And definitely do not even think of missing the upcoming BarCampNYC3!