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Especially in Boston. Boston has a TON of startups in the area.
by zcdziura 11y ago
Especially in Boston. Boston has a TON of startups in the area.
- wnissen 11y agoThis was 2007, but Paul Graham describes Boston VCs as being slow to act, so they stopped doing Demo Day out there. http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html
- JayNeely 11y agoTechStars hasn't had a problem. Boston cohorts have raised ~$400 million in VC so far: http://www.techstars.com/companies/ http://www.techstars.com/companies/
- ejdyksen 11y agoYC used to be in Boston for half of the year: http://old.ycombinator.com/ycca.html http://old.ycombinator.com/ycca.html
- cryoshon 11y agoTrue, but from what I know, it's much more of an old-boys network rather than any kind of stranger to stranger demo based conversion. People trying to make it that way tend to flop here, as there aren't many venues.