A tale of two cities: Bewildered by the city government’s continued cluelessness on NYC’s innovation
I generally like NYC City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. I think she's smart, hardworking, and I think she'd probably make a good mayor someday. However, her take on the NYC innovation economy during her recent State of the City Address confirmed my thinking: Most of what the NYC government should be doing to support technology entrepreneurship in NYC is to try and stay out of the way. It's painfully obvious that, like many other folks in NYC government, Ms. Quinn doesn't have a finger on ...