Silicon Alley Startups Aiming for Wall Street
The Financialist
New York City may not be home to the corporate headquarters of Google or Twitter, nor to the funding network of venture capitalists and angel investors that attracts thousands of digital entrepreneurs to Silicon Valley. But Silicon Alley’s startup scene is capitalizing on its geographic proximity to the economic engine known as Wall Street and the industry’s never-ending demand for better, faster, and cheaper ways to use technology to make money.