Friday, February 18, 2011

City Bakery After PaperlessPost

Feel good foods: Harbord Bakery 1kg Sweet Rais...Image by Sifu Renka via FlickrLarry Ellison

I am dropping by the PaperlessPost offices this afternoon. I will be there for about two hours, maybe two and a half. The idea is to talk to Alexa for about 60 to 90 minutes, then talk to some of her key people for 10 to 15 minutes each.

Then I am hoping to walk over to City Bakery to tidy up my papers and collect my thoughts, jot down some additional notes on my own. 3 West 18th Street.

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I think I might end up doing a half dozen posts on this gang. This is the fourth post on Alexa already. I think I will have done 10 or more by the time I am through.

Dumbo And Union Square

Location of Manhattan on New York City.Image via WikipediaI am headed to Union Square Friday afternoon to spend a few hours with the PaperlessPost team and its fearless leader Alexa Herschfeld. I had a voice mail from her Wednesday and Google Voice had transcribed her name as Celexa Ourselves. Not good, Google Voice, not good.

And to me it is feeling like I am headed to Dumbo. Dumbo and Union Square are two places in town that have tech clusters. There are a whole bunch of tech startups congregated in those two locales.

If there are other such clusters in the city, I am not aware of them as of yet. I am surprised there are not similar clusters in Williamsburg and Chinatown. I know of at least one major tech company that is based out of Chinatown, but I don't think you would call that a cluster.