Cereal Entrepreneurs
I got into a discussion the other day with a very sharp overworked entrepreneur/investor who i will call AR over NYC repeat entrepreneurs. How many repeat successful entrepreneurs do we have? His thought was that because there isn’t much repeat entrepreneurs there isn’t knowledge transfer and thus no community forms. We have lots of first time entrepreneurs, a few good ideas and lots of people that like thinking about but not doing startups.
The possible reasons is that companies get acquired in NYC, founder than a huge salary and no longer has a reason to do it again, there’s simply so much going on in nyc vs. the valley where all you have is a manufactured town with a main street and a coffee shop with mediocre live music….and a pet store…
The partial list of Cereal entrepreneurs that we came up with is as follows: there is one caveat, most of these guys live outside of nyc…
Kevin Ryan, DoubleClick & Now many companies at AlleyCorp
Nate Brochin, Rare Medium and a wireless company
Dean Margolis, Comet Systems, now recordmycalls
Jason Olim, CDNow, now Dorado Capital
I know there’s more, but if you look at the turnout at the events in nyc there really is no one that shows that is a Cerealist and provides much feedback to the populace. It’s funny but where is our accessible success stories?
