If you’re a startup founder trying to decide where to base your company, there are advantages you look for. Is there an amazing local engineering program like Stanford or MIT pumping out graduates who want to stay nearby? What’s the business climate like? What about taxes? Quality of life? Can my employees afford to live here? Is it safe? Do we feel wanted? 

New York has the underlying advantage of being, well, New York. But beyond that, we fail on just about every score. Maybe Cornell Technion will start producing engineers creating commercially viable startups, but I have yet to be pitched one.

Taxes here are high. The weather often stinks. Quality of life can be dicey. It’s very expensive to live here. Add in the lack of any real effort by the city or state to consistently work with early stage tech and assuming that startups will be in New York just because is a very........

© NY Daily News