Kevin Ryan? Josh Schachter? Someone from Google NYC? (e.g., Craig Neville-Manning)

Just off the top of my head.

David Rose would be a good person to interview. He's been recognized a ton this year in professional circles for his AngelSoft product, and still weirdly flies under the radar when more popular-oriented writers make these lists...

We should do an interview of Charlie, cuz he's da man! Should be a vlog post and he should appear painted as the Blue Man...

Seriously, I love the idea but a bit reticent at thinking about it in a "Who's who" mentality. Makes folks think that those not chosen are "who's not who", and then all the rest of the people are just the huddled masses. Promotes the rock star, hierarchical, royalness that I escaped in the Valley.

I know exactly what you mean, and it would serve this blog well to feature some notable folks. Just being nit-picky.

I'd agree with Ken (writing this from the Anthem conf. room). I personally would like to read a mix of "high profile" people and soon to be high profile NextNY members. VC's and successful entrepreneurs tend to say the same things; I find the stories from people currently in the trenches a bit more interesting and informative. I'd like to learn more about the people I see at the events and the things they're working on as well as the problems they're facing. It would give them some exposure and allow the group to engage with them in a more public arena. My two cents.

And on a related note, it would be a nice to have a more detailed member list to connect with like-minded NextNY members. Adding categories and/or tags (VC, entrepreneur, marketing professional, developer, weekend warrior, etc.) to member profiles would be a huge start. The ability to sort through those would be great. Unless you have a couple of hours to kill reading through the member profiles it's tough to find the "who's who" for you. This is probably a GG group discussion for Lee but I thought it had some application here as well.

Ok enough rambling, back to work on a Friday night...

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How about someone from city government on any plans to foster an environment oonducive to technology? Specifically,the New York City Economic Development Corporation-
http://www.nyc.gov/html/edc/

Joshua Sirefman is the interim director.
(212) 312-3600 (main line for the corporation)

I'm not sure if they're still there, but the media people are Michael Sherman and Jennifer Nelson at 212-312-3523.

or how about tech and the non-profit world?

http://www.npowerny.org/
they have a full staff list with bios - take your pick - a lot of interesting people

I'd be curious to hear what some investors have to say. Perhaps someone from nyangels?

Also Jason Calacanis is no longer NYC-local, but seems to give consistently interesting interviews (imo) and still has decent contacts in the NY-area. His blogging three-way with Peter Rojas (another good interview idea btw) and Dave Winer on a DRM-free ipod is fascinating as an example of "open source entrepreneurship" and as an intriguing zag (boutique hardware) while everyone else zigs (social media).

Also, Chris Fralic or Howard Morgan from First Round Capital...

I agree with Ken and Clay above about interviewing people from the trenches. I think a good rule of thumb would be perhaps to include someone from the lower part of a company if you are going to interview a CEO or founder. This way you could get both perspectives, and of course have both parties in the hot seat:)

If you need any help in this regard let me know as I have some easy ways to setup a podcast or interview taking the tech aspects out of the equation. (seems simple but it never is)