This is a personal view, but for me the best part of the New York tech scene is simply that it is in New York. You get to interact a lot with people who have experience with those industries that have long been important in New York: television, movies, publishing, travel, sports, news, fashion, dance, design, architecture, music and the various other arts. If those fields interest you, and especially if you have an idea that combines tech with some aspect of one of those fields, then I think the New York tech scene can be highly enticing. As it happens, ideas about re-inventing publishing interest me, so this is a great place for me to be. Even when I run into old-timers who hate the Internet and who wish publishing could have survived forever in its 1980s form, I enjoy the conversations we have, the different perspectives -- and it is, for me, surprising and important to be reminded how many people remain loyal to old notions of publishing, even as the business models melt away or are irreparably altered by the Internet.