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Rarely a month goes by that someone I know moves to a startup I've never previously heard of. I'm very surprised to hear that culture difference... are you sur

• nostrademons 18y ago
  It's possible, but I've heard it from several other people too. Several YC founders I knew said that it's much harder to get VCs in Boston to take you seriously if you don't have 15-20 years experience. And my former boss also remarked on the cultural difference (his son goes to Stanford), but for him that was a positive thing about Boston. I think it's also telling that nearly all the company founders I know in Boston are at least in their 40s, sometimes up to their 70s, while most of the company founders I know in the Bay Area are in their 20s. (Actually, most of the latter group started out as Boston founders in their 20s and then moved.)