Comments on: Startup Failure: Seattle’s Stigma, Boston’s Chip on Its Shoulder, and Silicon Valley’s Badge of Honor http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/11/09/startup-failure-seattle%e2%80%99s-stigma-boston%e2%80%99s-chip-on-its-shoulder-and-silicon-valley%e2%80%99s-badge-of-honor/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:29:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Josh Maher http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/11/09/startup-failure-seattle%e2%80%99s-stigma-boston%e2%80%99s-chip-on-its-shoulder-and-silicon-valley%e2%80%99s-badge-of-honor/comment-page-1/#comment-92309 Josh Maher Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:45:16 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=49552#comment-92309 Hey Greg, Interesting piece, I missed the techstars event and hadn't seen this article but had some interesting thoughts on the topic that I posted at http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/11/guest_post_what_makes_seattle_a_good_place_for_startups.html The most interesting piece of what Feld said in your report is that the folks in Boston are changing their attitude and building good startups despite the availability of local VCs... Because of the good startups, the VCs are finding them anyway. This is in line with my thinking, Seattle has some big differences - but this attitude and community are more key then the number of deals in the works or the number of exits is key... Hey Greg,

Interesting piece, I missed the techstars event and hadn’t seen this article but had some interesting thoughts on the topic that I posted at http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/11/guest_post_what_makes_seattle_a_good_place_for_startups.html

The most interesting piece of what Feld said in your report is that the folks in Boston are changing their attitude and building good startups despite the availability of local VCs… Because of the good startups, the VCs are finding them anyway. This is in line with my thinking, Seattle has some big differences – but this attitude and community are more key then the number of deals in the works or the number of exits is key…

]]> By: Jules http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/11/09/startup-failure-seattle%e2%80%99s-stigma-boston%e2%80%99s-chip-on-its-shoulder-and-silicon-valley%e2%80%99s-badge-of-honor/comment-page-1/#comment-91224 Jules Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:09:19 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=49552#comment-91224 Great article Greg. I'm weighing in here from Boston. Brad Feld is absolutely right about the chip on our shoulders here. But no one is grousing about the Silicon Valley (or Seattle or Austin or Boulder) successes. We root you guys on wholeheartedly. No rather, we Boston entrepreneurs direct our grumblings at the local VC community, which is still catching up to the vibrant level of innovation happening right in front of them. We keep losing too many deals and good people to West Coast companies and investors. For better or worse, some Boston investors want to relive their enterprise software and hardware success heydays and invest in their proxies, like infrastructure and plumbing technologies, and web analytical plays. We need Boston investors who can embrace green tech and social media and consumer internet. Those are the game changers that will really build the Boston entrepreneurial scene. And, by association, the broader Boston image across the country. People get excited about technologies and products they can directly use. Not the safe infrastructure plays. Great article Greg. I’m weighing in here from Boston. Brad Feld is absolutely right about the chip on our shoulders here. But no one is grousing about the Silicon Valley (or Seattle or Austin or Boulder) successes. We root you guys on wholeheartedly.

No rather, we Boston entrepreneurs direct our grumblings at the local VC community, which is still catching up to the vibrant level of innovation happening right in front of them. We keep losing too many deals and good people to West Coast companies and investors.

For better or worse, some Boston investors want to relive their enterprise software and hardware success heydays and invest in their proxies, like infrastructure and plumbing technologies, and web analytical plays. We need Boston investors who can embrace green tech and social media and consumer internet. Those are the game changers that will really build the Boston entrepreneurial scene. And, by association, the broader Boston image across the country. People get excited about technologies and products they can directly use. Not the safe infrastructure plays.

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