How could I become an entrepreneur?

How would you become successful as a 'newcomer' entrepreneur in New York?

• After a hopefully successful exit I would like to move to New York city and start everything from scratch. I am a 35 years old entrepreneur from Europe without any previous experience about doing business in the USA. I have read and researched as much as I can, but all information are theories. I have no network of people, possible partners. However I believe to be an entrepreneur requires the same skills set anywhere in the world. What I am interested in here, how would you start from the beginning, how would you connect with peers, how would you get grip as an entrepreneur in New York.

• Answer:

  New York is actually a very open and welcoming startup community that is big on supporting entrepreneurs. Unlike smaller cities in the US and Europe, there is a critical mass here of people and opportunities for everything startup related. And unlike Northern California, where it's a one-industry town but very spread out, here it is relatively concentrated. All of this makes it easy to get started. To begin with seek out and participate in as many MeetUps as you can in your areas of interest. That is *exactly* what they are designed for, and in New York there are specialized gatherings on every topic you could imagine. In particular, you must join the main NY Tech Meetup, which has over 35,000 members, and try to attend the monthly meetings. I would also suggest renting a desk at one of the active tech co-working venues, such as WeWork, New Work City or the NYU-Poly Incubator, and subscribing to the weekly curated event listings from Gary's Guide, StartupDigest and Charlie O'Donnell's This Week in NY Tech Innovation. Good luck with you new life in the world's fastest growing startup ecosystem!