Today’s guest post is by Andre Archimbaud.

As they say, if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.

In my 15 years of living in New York City, I’ve seen just this time and again.

In days gone by, this statement applied to actors, dancers, singers.

While it still holds for that crowd, it now applies to coders and tech geeks.

In New York, we take tech seriously.

So much so that our city has a chief digital officer – Rachel Haot – who recently announced a city-wide initiative to ‘reinvent the pay phone.’

As a bit of background, I personally have been plugged into the New York startup scene for the last 7 years with my involvement with the New York Tech Meetup – the original of all of the world’s Meetup events! – groups such as The Hatchery, Ultralight Startups and a healthy number of other relationships I’ve developed during that time.

As valuable as my own opinion might be on this matter, I thought I would turn to some of the experts in the arena. (more…)