What’s the Matter with Boston Tech?
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What’s the Matter with Boston Tech?
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#2Odd article. If Boston is this amazing-but-quiet center of innovation, why not feature founders and innovators ?
Besides the founders of Kayak and Runkeeper, everyone else interviewed worked for a co-working space (tim row), a university (Abby Fichtner), a consulting group (Michael Davies), or a large company like Microsoft (Annmarie Levins).
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#3Boston Tech? Didn't it move to Cambridge and change its name?
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“At the time, getting a seed round done for a consumer Internet startup in Boston was a lot harder than getting a round done here,” she said.
I think this is still a big factor. Things have gotten a lot better - there is more of an ecosystem now, better availability of seed funding, and there is a growing pool of talent.
That said, beyond small seed checks investors in Boston are more conservative, valuations are lower, there is less appetite for risky consumer plays ("why don't you go after this known b2b market?".)
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#6Big shout out to Kendall Square. Just started working here. Tangential but curious, any peeps who work at Kendall Square have any good food trucks, restaurants, meetup's nearby to try out?
I like Clover/Chipotle, Sebastian's is too expensive and co-op food court is still shut-down :(
Are there any cool meetup's to check out at Microsoft NERD center or at CIC? Or any ideas about the hack/reduce, enterprise data science hacker-space vs. the one in central square which seems to be more DIY. Also any cool talk series/clubs I should check out at MIT, the only one I know is the 2600 meetup and also their computational biology talks at STATA.
And has anyone been to the Kendall Sq. ice rink or any art-house film meetup's at Kendall Sq. Cinema or other recreational stuff nearby?
EDIT: re: original post, I agree largely with the author's impression of the local scene not heavily invested in "progressive consumer-tech" and want to keep it that way! The Bay Area isn't for everybody and it isn't certainly for me, so I hope that not every city try to emulate that and try to find their niche.
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#7Nothing.
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#8Big shout out to Kendall Square. Just started working here. Tangential but curious, any peeps who work at Kendall Square have any good food trucks, restaurants, meetup's nearby to try out? I like Clover/Chipotle, Sebastian's is too expensive and co-op food court is still shut-down :( Are there any cool meetup's to check out at Microsoft NERD center or at CIC? Or any ideas about the hack/reduce, enterprise data scienc…
If you enjoy beer, check out Cambridge Brewing Company.
> The Bay Area isn't for everybody and it isn't certainly for me, so I hope that not every city try to emulate that and try to find their niche.
Good point.
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I agree. My impression is that Boston loses all those MIT and Harvard grads because either the companies that would hire them in Boston can't fit them in a pigeonhole in their organization or the graduates see they are going to be pigeonholed and go elsewhere. Happened to me at Raytheon, though it was down here in Texas. Boston companies are much more likely to post a job opening with a long list of requirements and actually mean everything is required.
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#10Boston's losing tech startups to SF because the weather here is drastically better (well, not today...)
All other things being equal, we have better beer, more sunshine, a bay that doesn't turn to ice in winter, an airport you can fly in and out of reliably without the constant storm closings, faster public transport and of course California Girls (1) :)