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There's a lot of money in Boulder - far more than the random towns Matt mentions. As far as quality of life goes, it's utopian and not very expensive (4br house

by rrival 19y ago

There's a lot of money in Boulder - far more than the random towns Matt mentions. As far as quality of life goes, it's utopian and not very expensive (4br house in a great part of town for $2200/month). The pace is a bit on the slow side, but I can't speak to the pace in the bay area. I'm headed to a tech event in Boulder in early Feb to get a better feel for the size of the startup community there - I know a number of people out there are working to improve the community. Could TS help? The stats on the TC article are good - 80% funded? It's not Silicon Valley, of course, but if the community there is enough and the access to additional funding rounds is enough and this recession hits it's a beautiful place to weather the storm.

wastedbrains 19y ago
You can get housing even cheaper than that I was in a 3br in boulder for $900 during a summer I lived there. The New Tech Meetups in Boulder are huge, hundreds of people Their are also active user groups for many different languages in the Boulder Denver area. Just starting to get to know the angle VC kind of stuff around Boulder, but it seems to be fairly developed. Anyways it is clearly much better than some of the small cities mentioned. It frequently places in the top 5 or so start up cities... http://smallbusiness.aol.com/features/best-cities-for-entrepreneurs http://smallbusiness.aol.com/features/best-cities-for-entrep...
mattmaroon 19y ago
I was obviously joking about Boulder being behind Sheboygan, but it's so distantly behind SV that it's essentially worthless. Also, that 80% stat means nothing. Who funded them, for how much, with what terms. Getting some funding is trivial, getting good funding is not.
- immad 19y ago
  Also I believe the stat from techcrunch was 80% received either funding, are profitable or received acquisition offers. Being profitable at such an early stage and if you aren't drawing salary is a bit meaningless. Acquisition offers are almost completely meaningless without an actual acquisition. Also agree with matt, raising $500 from your parents might be "funding"

by rrival 19y ago

wastedbrains 19y ago

You can get housing even cheaper than that I was in a 3br in boulder for $900 during a summer I lived there. The New Tech Meetups in Boulder are huge, hundreds of people Their are also active user groups for many different languages in the Boulder Denver area. Just starting to get to know the angle VC kind of stuff around Boulder, but it seems to be fairly developed. Anyways it is clearly much better than some of the small cities mentioned. It frequently places in the top 5 or so start up cities... http://smallbusiness.aol.com/features/best-cities-for-entrepreneurs http://smallbusiness.aol.com/features/best-cities-for-entrep...

mattmaroon 19y ago

I was obviously joking about Boulder being behind Sheboygan, but it's so distantly behind SV that it's essentially worthless. Also, that 80% stat means nothing. Who funded them, for how much, with what terms. Getting some funding is trivial, getting good funding is not.

immad 19y ago
Also I believe the stat from techcrunch was 80% received either funding, are profitable or received acquisition offers. Being profitable at such an early stage and if you aren't drawing salary is a bit meaningless. Acquisition offers are almost completely meaningless without an actual acquisition. Also agree with matt, raising $500 from your parents might be "funding"