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As someone who would love to move back to Boston that's a very hard sell. Especially when the biggest success story is Hubspot (of "Disrupted" fame) which is mo
by ng12 9y ago
As someone who would love to move back to Boston that's a very hard sell. Especially when the biggest success story is Hubspot (of "Disrupted" fame) which is more Silicon Valley than Silicon Valley is.
- ghaff 9y agoA lot of perception is flavored by the fact that a lot of the time "tech" gets defined as what dominates Silicon Valley. So you get taxi companies counted as tech and bio/pharma or fintech often not. That said, while California does have a lot more VC funding, New York and Massachusetts and #2 and #3 even though Boston/Cambridge in particular tend to not be mentioned in these kind of discussions. https://ssti.org/blog/useful-stats-venture-capital-dollars-and-deals-state-2010-2015 https://ssti.org/blog/useful-stats-venture-capital-dollars-a...
- drharby 9y agoThe fact that hubspot is the premeir success startup in boston signals to me the journey BOS has to go to compete with sv. That said tho, the cambridge intellectual bubble is real and has its advantages