Who Is Investing in Start-ups in New York

If you've read this blog regularly, especially the early posts, you know that my mantra is that the first capital you raise will come from someone that you already know. I still think that's absolutely gospel, but I also appreciate that it's a scary message for a lot of people. I've also started to see more "institutionalization" around early stage funding in New York and so it's becoming easier to write about sources of capital without just listing individual names and whoring out the rolodex. I've got a couple of posts in mind on the topic, but Chris Dixon's (of hunch) recent post on the Exploding New York Tech scene is a great primer on where to find the beautiful people of the New York tech scene.