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“What are you seeing in general?”
“What’s the breakdown of Alley vs Valley deals you’ve been contacted on?”
“What themes and patterns are developing?”
These are the typical questions we get from the VC’s, Angels, Founders, and Executives with whom we work.
The questions seem to be coming much more frequently these days.
Daversa Partners is a leading executive search firm focused on building teams for venture backed, emerging growth companies. We have 40 people in the firm and offices on both coasts.
Until mid-2009 Silicon Valley had dominated our attention and dwarfed
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“What are you seeing in general?”
“What’s the breakdown of Alley vs Valley deals you’ve been contacted on?”
“What themes and patterns are developing?”
These are the typical questions we get from the VC’s, Angels, Founders, and Executives with whom we work.
The questions seem to be coming much more frequently these days.
Daversa Partners is a leading executive search firm focused on building teams for venture backed, emerging growth companies. We have 40 people in the firm and offices on both coasts.
Until mid-2009 Silicon Valley had dominated our attention and dwarfed the sheer number of companies we have recruited talent for by a 4-1 ratio, driven by breakaway consumer internet businesses as well as the emergence of the cloud based offerings. The big location question used to be San Jose or San Francisco, the valley or the city.
With our good fortune of being able to work with great venture firms and great entrepreneurs, we are often one of the first calls when people need to build leadership teams — thus we become an interesting barometer for the ebbs and flows of industry trends. The most glaring observation over the last year has been that, for the first time in my 20 years of search, the deal flow and investment lines have begun to blur as NY has become a hot-bed for building great tech companies and leadership talent is migrating to New York.
Silicon Valley will maintain its undisputed grip on engineering talent, overall thought leadership and sheer volume of innovation. There is no arguing that point. The depth of the talent pool in the Bay, especially in product and engineering seems almost unfathomable.
But here’s is what has changed: more than any time in recent history I am seeing a migration of talented engineering and operating executives leaving the Bay area and other parts of the country to lead NY companies. As a matter of fact, it seemed commonplace to hear “NFW” when talking to Valley execs as recently as 18 months ago when called about a NY opportunity.
Now we expect the receptivity! There is no doubt that the burst of NY’s momentum is being fueled by signs of life from Madison Avenue and large brands that dominate the East Coast. There is also a newfound energy that is serving as the shot in the arm of vitamin B to Silicon Alley investors and start-up…a signal that Silicon Valley’s birthright and mecca of professions is being threatened (or least facing some viable competition).
Here’s the most telling statistic for us; at least 50 percent of all the projects we do–and we get our share of the plum projects–are coming out of New York. The challenge used to be that NY was viewed as a one hit wonder…if a candidate moved to NY then they knew they would have to consider moving again for that next job. And, even if the candidate did really think about the move, the idea of having to build his/her team was a major issue.
Some of our recent projects have included multiple senior hires for Zynga (CA), CFO of Twitter(CA), CEO of Recycle Bank (NY), CFO of Gilt.com (NY), CEO of Mozilla (CA), CEO of Buywithme.com (NY), SVP of Rockyou (CA), CTO of AOL (NY), VP Engineering Boxee (NY), CEO of Grockit (CA), President of Drop.io (NY), President of Knewton (NY) and CTO of Renttherunway.com (NY), and CMO of The Ladders.com (NY).
What is telling about the NY projects is the infusion of Silicon Valley executives as well as other executives from other locations that often flock to the bay. Gilt’s CFO and President of Stores, Buywithme.com’s CEO and CTO, and Renttherunway’s CTO were either West Coast recruits or from other locations in the country.
In a recent Daversa Speaker Series (a fireside chat we have monthly with industry leaders and innovators), Ron Conway of SV Angels and legendary Angel investor disclosed that 25 percent of his current portfolio of investments are now in NY — up from 5 percent just two years ago. NY has regained some of its swagger thanks to companies like Gilt.com that picked up where Doubleclick left off, setting in motion an ecosystem being developed around the 5th Avenue and Madison Avenue beachheads of advertisers, brands and buyers.
The big question remains: can NY create 2nd and 3rd generation legacy much like executives at Google, eBay and Paypal that have been a part of the Web 3.0 emergence? The theory would go that, as NY companies continue to scale, those companies will create the next generation of innovators. As Gilt, Foursquare, TheLadders, Etsy or Boxee (or whomever the winners will be) grow, employees from these companies will branch out to form new ventures. No longer does great talent have to think of NY as a one hit wonder. The talent pool will grow exponentially over the next 3-5 years. And NY will find itself as the definitive “other” market where great US tech companies are born.
The prevailing theme is that the Valley vs. Alley dogfight is in its early stages and given that there is a flurry of high quality start-ups germinating at a frenzied pace on both coasts, we are already seeing the stepped up and accelerated decision making being made to lock down talent. So, the recruiting won’t get any easier, but the once scoffed at idea of moving to NY to run tech companies will be replaced by the idea that any good exec will have to have NY on their radars.
See Also: Check Out The Silicon Alley 100: The Coolest People In New York Tech
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When Carter Cleveland, the CEO of the art-trading website Art.sy, moved his fledgling company from Palo Alto, Calif., to New York City he left behind arguably the best place to start a tech business in the U.S.
- Bloomberg News
Home to giants like Facebook, Google, Apple, Intel and eBay, Silicon Valley is well known as the Mecca for high-tech companies – and entrepreneurs hoping to start one. One third of US-based venture capital investment happens in the Valley, according to PriceWaterhouse Coopers and the National Venture Capital Association. By Cleveland’s own admission, he “couldn’t go into
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By Alexander Hotz
When Carter Cleveland, the CEO of the art-trading website Art.sy, moved his fledgling company from Palo Alto, Calif., to New York City he left behind arguably the best place to start a tech business in the U.S.
- Bloomberg News
Home to giants like Facebook, Google, Apple, Intel and eBay, Silicon Valley is well known as the Mecca for high-tech companies – and entrepreneurs hoping to start one. One third of US-based venture capital investment happens in the Valley, according to PriceWaterhouse Coopers and the National Venture Capital Association. By Cleveland’s own admission, he “couldn’t go into a cafe without hearing pitches” in San Francisco.
So why go east? A recent Princeton grad, Cleveland said he left primarily because of his customers. Art.sy is an online trading post for fine art and, according to Cleveland, over half of his market is in New York City. But Cleveland added that location isn’t everything. New York’s tech scene is booming, and Cleveland wanted to join the party.
“Palo Alto is like Google,” he explained. “Big and established. New York City is like Foursquare. Not as big but tons of hype. It’s going through a growth period and very exciting.”
Below are seven reasons that tech entrepreneurs are increasingly setting up shop in New York:
1) It’s an exciting time to be in New York: Today the city is full of prominent up and comers like craft marketplace Etsy, online TV hub Boxee and blogging platform Tumblr. New York based start-ups luxury retail shopping Gilt Groupe, file sharing site Drop.io and location-based social network Foursquare have also garnered considerable attention.
Silicon Alley’s resurgence has been chronicled in the pages of The New York Observer and New York Magazine, and founders like Tumblr’s David Karp and Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley have received profile treatment typically reserved for celebrities. With Foursquare’s recent million Series B and million valuation, New York’s tech scene may have officially arrived.
2) A growing, supportive community: Cody Brown, a newly minted NYU grad and the founder of the social-networking start-up Kommons, recently lamented the lack of affordable apartments in New York City. Brown said he was “totally willing to live in poverty with a food budget of -10 a day,” but that the city’s high rental prices made even that difficult. Fortunately for Brown, a network of techies came to his rescue. Not long after blogging about his dilemma, Brown was tipped off to a 0/month place in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Brown’s story is a small example of the now vibrant start-up culture in New York. Every month entrepreneurs and VCs mingle at a wide range of events. The New York Tech Meetup is the most popular with about 12,000 members. In the blogosphere local voices like Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson, prominent VC Chris Dixon, and First Round Capital’s Charlie O’Donnell have emerged as community leaders and mentors. According to Dixon, also the co-founder of recommendation engine Hunch, this “growing ecosystem” is driving the industry’s growth.
3) Universities are stepping up: New York has plenty of tech jobs, but one of the biggest complaints leveled against the city by entrepreneurs is that the best universities send their top talent to Wall Street. While the city’s financial sector continues to lure the majority of graduates with lucrative contracts, Nate Westheimer, the CEO of movie-clip site AnyClip and the director of NYMeetup, said that is beginning to change.
Westheimer commended the work of two professors — Evan Korth, who teaches computer science at NYU, and Chris Wiggins, an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University. Both have teamed up with Bit.ly scientist Hilary Mason to create HackNY, a project that connects New York’s best students with the city’s the startup world.
4) Growing access to venture capital: Although nationwide VC investment dropped in the first quarter of this year, in New York City it was up almost 20 percent, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. The second quarter saw investment in media, entertainment and software triple in New York compared with last year. And the recent establishment of seed funds like Founder Collective and IA Venture Strategies is just another sign that New York companies have access to capital.
5) Government support: Mayor Michael Bloomberg has thrown City Hall’s weight behind the burgeoning sector with a city-funded incubator and seed fund. The Bloomberg administration even invested in an iPhone app NYCWay.
6) New York is medialand, and the media love the Internet: Two of New York’s biggest industries are media and advertising, so it’s no surprise that online publications like The Huffington Post and Gawker are based in Manhattan. New York’s density also makes the city a perfect testing ground for social-networking sites. Foursquare and Hot Potato are both based in New York.
7) The anti-B.S. factor: Silicon Valley is a town where the tech industry dominates the conversation. In sharp contrast, New York is home to many industries so it’s difficult for an entrepreneur to get caught up in what the investor Fred Wilson calls an “echo-chamber groupthink.” Bottom line — entrepreneurs have to be creative and can’t get caught up in their bubble.
Not so fast…
Matt Mireles, the founder and CEO of †he video transcription service SpeakerText, started his company in his Harlem apartment but recently jumped ship for the Valley. Mireles said he’s making the move because of a “chokehold” he believes Wall Street has on technical talent in New York. In his experience, entrepreneurs are stuck fighting over a few start-up-minded developers.
That said, Mireles admits his long-term plan is to eventually return to New York. “If I wanted to be where there are more hot girls and nightlife I wouldn’t be in Mountainview,” Mireles said. “But I’m doing this [move to California] so in five years time I can live in New York in a big pimped out loft or something.”
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