With fewer jobs available on Wall Street, top-tier engineering
students are increasingly pursuing careers at New York's technology
startups, reports Chris Wiggins, an associate professor of applied
mathematics at Columbia University's engineering school and
co-founder of HackNY.org, a group aimed at educating the next
generation of technologists about the opportunities in the city's
emerging tech startup sector. Watch the video below or download it
on iTunes. For more on what New York is doing to catch up with
Silicon Valley as a breeding ground for tech companies, see "Mecca
on the Hudson?" in The Deal magazine. And for a look at someone who
says the city that never sleeps doesn't hold a candle to the San
Francisco Bay area when it comes to fueling his startup, see NYC
vs. Silicon Valley: One entrepreneur's tale.