Amazing to watch the best of VCs and entrepreneurs at TechCruch Disrupt. Great to see Robert Scoble in the front row. Reports say that the show has been dominated by Facebook, iPad/Apple, Amazon and Google with little mention of Microsoft.
Mayor Bloomberg gave a fantastic presentation and promoted New York both as a resident and as the best place to start a high margin/great people/low physical space business in the USA. New Yorkers come from all round the world and live as a mixture and not a mosaic with great diversity in one block. In reply to a question about tax incentives, he replied that everyone wanted lower taxes but his job was to make sure that the taxes were spent well to build a city where people are living longer, have more culture and is good for business. Of course he has built a great business and he stressed the importance of change over the last thirty years from wiring your own computers, to PCs arriving to embracing the Internet. The problem with the big media cluster in New York was not technology but publishers losing contact with their customers. Provide great content and use technology to get it to the customers in a variety of ways.
Perhaps Cambridge, UK, should follow New York’s decision to establish a Media Lab at a university as have been so successful at MIT and Stanford.
Mayor Bloomberg could not be a greater contrast to Mayor Boris of London and not just the hair cut! Not sure which business plan resource Mayor Bloomberg used to underpin the expansion of his company but the Mayor did well. Inspiring.
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