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Currently about 242 listed -- I know there are more, but discovery is challenging; many web startups don't make any mention of where they're physically located on their site.
Related question: if you're not aiming to raise money or grow big fast, how important is it to be in a tech hub? I live in Waltham, right outside of Boston, and am considering moving somewhere cheaper and warmer because the benefits of building a company here (or SV) don't seem as important if you're going the MicroISV/Micropreneur route. Thoughts?
And it's pretty warm--though the summers get hot. But that's the beauty of growing an Internet business--locate somewhere it's cheap, and head out for a month or two whenever you need to.
Probably for the low taxes, I'd guess.
However, taxes are probably going to be a pretty small consideration for a startup, since the top three locations (Wyoming, South Dakota, Nevada) are not particularly hot in startup land, but the bottom three (California, NY, New Jersey) are.
Related question: if you're not aiming to raise money or grow big fast, how important is it to be in a tech hub? I live in Waltham, right outside of Boston, and am considering moving somewhere cheaper and warmer because the benefits of building a company here (or SV) don't seem as important if you're going the MicroISV/Micropreneur route. Thoughts?
Come to Austin. We have a nice tech scene here (and budding seed/angel funding community) and it's still relatively cheap to live here. And it's pretty warm--though the summers get hot. But that's the beauty of growing an Internet business--locate somewhere it's cheap, and head out for a month or two whenever you need to.
Their non-compete laws are some of the most repressive in the nation.
Is Boston the kind of place where you can locally raise a seed round with ten or twenty angels for your consumer web startup with great traction but no revenue? Is Boston the kind of place where you can find engineers whose former job was to scale a database or web server or cache to hundreds of millions of active users? Are there deep pocketed companies locally who can afford to and regularly do acquisitions? Are MIT/Harvard (or BC, BU, NE, Tufts, WPI, Olin) grads going to Boston startups, or are they going to banking, Dropbox, or Facebook? Are there enough senior people around?
Vertica, ITA, and Basho are all great companies for example, but are they succeeding because they are in Boston, or in spite of it? How often are these companies flying out to the SF Bay Area to handle core parts of their business (customers, investment, business development)?
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Come to Austin. We have a nice tech scene here (and budding seed/angel funding community) and it's still relatively cheap to live here. And it's pretty warm--though the summers get hot. But that's the beauty of growing an Internet business--locate somewhere it's cheap, and head out for a month or two whenever you need to.
Thanks. My wife and I are leaning towards Orlando due to its proximity to family. Can anyone comment on the Orlando startup scene?
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Come to Austin. We have a nice tech scene here (and budding seed/angel funding community) and it's still relatively cheap to live here. And it's pretty warm--though the summers get hot. But that's the beauty of growing an Internet business--locate somewhere it's cheap, and head out for a month or two whenever you need to.
Thanks. My wife and I are leaning towards Orlando due to its proximity to family. Can anyone comment on the Orlando startup scene?
You will also have no backup plan if your startup doesn't work since wages are so low.
There is no startup scene and everyone you meet will work in real estate or hospitality.
I live in beacon hill now and can tell you that I am constantly impressed by the smart people I meet in Boston. When I lived in Orlando I felt the exact opposite.