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Regardless of the $ figure, Stanford is clearly the right choice here. NYU has been in NYC for a very long time (just look at the name, right?) and has not contributed meaningfully to the technology scene. What New York needs is a fresh dose of valley perspective from the guys at the heart of it.

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How do you expect Stanford opening a graduate campus in NYC will bring "valley perspective" to NYC? It takes people and I don't see anyone wanting to move from Palo Alto to NYC.

i think a large problem with that is that the offshoot campuses are almost always subpar to the original. Sure the degrees will still say Stanford, but the smart people will all go to California...NY Stanford will be their safety school

I'd assume that getting into StanfordNYU would be just as hard as getting into Stanford in California, so I don't think it would be much of a safety school.

I'm not sure why you'd assume that. CMU's campus in Silicon Valley is very different than the primary CMU campus, for example.

The proposal mentions that the NYC campus will largely serve graduate students and graduate school programming. Stanford already has a satellite campus in Monterrey, CA for marine biology and oceanography students where students split time between the main and satellite campuses. I expect that the NYC campus will follow the same model (i.e. spend a couple quarters at each campus to fulfill complete course load).

It's not that tricky, it's a problem easily solved with money.

Step one: "Hey big-name famous professor, want a job at Stanford NY? We'll pay you $big_face_money and you'll get all our fancy new facilities, plus the Stanford name, and whatever the hell else you want." Repeat 200 times.

Step two: The professors attract the grad students.

Step three: The grad students create the ecosystem.

NYU runs a start up incubator: http://www.poly.edu/business/incubators

> NYU runs a start up incubator

Would you rather use that incubator or the Stanford system?

Stanford's president founded a reasonably successful startup.

And a fellowship for budding entrepreneurs or startup-oriented devs: http://hackny.org/a/

(note: along with Columbia, though the hackathons are hosted at NYU Courant)

Agreed.

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