Depending on the data that you look at, NYC and Boston are pretty close. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/global-startup-cities-venture-cap

Depending on the data that you look at, NYC and Boston are pretty close. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/global-startup-cities-venture-capital/429255/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/global... More importantly, Boston is much heavier into manufacturing technology, hardware, B2B software, etc whereas NYC is more focused on consumer, retail, fashion, etc. Boston is pretty clearly a better choice for GE. In reality GE's HQ in Boston will represent a tiny fraction of their global employees, though, so it doesn't really matter. https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/03/11/huge-but-its-future-headquarters-will-anything-but/INqV8GezulQDnQI1tKBxFJ/story.html https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/03/11/huge-but-its...