New York's Web Industry From 1995 to 2008: From Nascent to Ascendent
summary
Chronicles New York’s web ecosystem from 1995 onward with concrete benchmarks: 230 vs 30 early‑stage VC financings (1995) and growth to ~120 vs 360 by 2008 (projected), the rise of incubator space at 55 Broad, Flatiron Partners’ founding, DoubleClick’s $60M IPO in 1997, the dot‑com crash and 2002 trough, then recovery with Web 2.0 (2003), Delicious and Etsy launches, NY Tech Meetup scaling to ~7,000, Google building a 750‑engineer NYC office, and which of those ventures sell, fail or persist.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 2:49The New York Internet Industry
- 10:29the interactive agency
- 10:47The New York Times
- 11:22Online ad networks emerge
- 12:09Flatiron Partners
- 20:28Google opens its first NY office, at the
- 20:56ROCK BOTTOM
- 21:36Blogging
- 23:36Web 2.0 Makes
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