Most business interests in New York City are a bit wary of the newly elected mayor Bill de Blasio, a populist who has spent his career in the government and nonprofit sectors. The tech startup industry is especially nervous: January marks the end of a period of coddling by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the beginning of an administration led by a man who has very different ideas about tech in the city.
"I think that the incoming administration is going to have lots of competing priorities and probably will not be as single-focused on the innovation economy as Bloomberg was," says Kathy Wylde, president of the nonprofit Partnership for New York City, an organization of city business leaders. "I do think that the industry is going to have to...
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