Charlie Nails It
One of New Work City’s goals is to help foster entrepreneurial activity in New York. Charlie O’Donnell, founder of Path101 and NYC tech’s best and most active online community, NextNY, recently testified to the NYC City Council about how to improve the city’s technology/small business sector.
He offered some fantastic advice. One excerpt:
Innovation comes not from technology, but from people—and New York City technology has a people problem. Local schools, with few exceptions, are not consistantly developing students focused on creating value through entrepreneurship and technological innovation. You can build all the incubators you want—unless you’re seeding students as early as high school or junior high with the idea that they could build the next Google here in New York, and giving them the learning tools to accomplish that, it’s never going to happen.
Charlie breaks down actionable steps that can be taken by the city to help create some real, sustained growth.
Kudos to Charlie for continuing to work toward helping grow NYC’s startup scene!
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