New York’s startup scene has been pegged as the next big thing for quite a while now. So why hasn’t it lived up to the billing as the “next Silicon Valley”? Or is it that our expectation to find another Bay Area boom out east are unreasonable and should be adapted on a place-by-place basis? In observing NYC and its array of diverse and new ideas up front, we at Gotham.tech found a better answer to those questions and more