It's not just the investors here who are clueless. The reporters are too. The New York Times, Newsweek, and USA Today have all written about us, but our own local paper still doesn't know we exist. Sigh.
side note-- I am really starting to get miffed by blog/page layouts that are so widget-heavy that I can't view the content until sixteen separate widgets have polled their (slow) servers and rendered.
Please let me view the content, and THEN render your widgets! Don't block!
I agree, I initially tried looking at the page on my iPhone while I was outside on the EDGE network. It took forever as I watched all the flash stuff in the sidebar not load. Then the article itself appeared in the sidebar as one big link.
It would have been nice if there was a content-only URL that could have been linked to from news.yc.
4 of the five points are false. I can't comment on the personal network.
Cambridge's real advantages over the Bay Area are that the weather is bad and there isn't anything interesting to do (how many times can you go to 1369 or People's Republik?)
Given these constraints, you might as well work 18 hours a day.
San Francisco has the opposite problem. If I was yc I'd include a provision that the company has to be in San Mateo or some other boring peninsula/south bay hellhole, and not The City. There are simply too many distractions. I've never heard of a startup based in SF doing anywhere as well as the ones based in Silicon Valley proper.
That's an interesting point about SF vs. the peninsula. I can't think of any startups that made it big out of san francisco - though I'm sure there must be some (anyone willing to suggest a few?) There's craigslist, or course - which should has been very successful even though they haven't cashed in.
I'm not sure that the distractions are the problem, though. Personally, I think the distractions of SF help me a bit. The vibe gets me more charged up to work.
I think it has more to do with the heavy concentration of non-tech related law and finance companies. One key to a tech center is that programmers, designers, and people with a start-up mentality are more likely to bump into each other. I live in the city, and walking around, you're much more likely to bump into a lawyer or finance person. And these aren't the lawyers who do startups (who you probably do bump into in the valley), they're the ones who do condo conversions.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 32.9 ms ] threadPlease let me view the content, and THEN render your widgets! Don't block!
It would have been nice if there was a content-only URL that could have been linked to from news.yc.
This is a joke, right?
Cambridge's real advantages over the Bay Area are that the weather is bad and there isn't anything interesting to do (how many times can you go to 1369 or People's Republik?)
Given these constraints, you might as well work 18 hours a day.
San Francisco has the opposite problem. If I was yc I'd include a provision that the company has to be in San Mateo or some other boring peninsula/south bay hellhole, and not The City. There are simply too many distractions. I've never heard of a startup based in SF doing anywhere as well as the ones based in Silicon Valley proper.
I'm not sure that the distractions are the problem, though. Personally, I think the distractions of SF help me a bit. The vibe gets me more charged up to work.
I think it has more to do with the heavy concentration of non-tech related law and finance companies. One key to a tech center is that programmers, designers, and people with a start-up mentality are more likely to bump into each other. I live in the city, and walking around, you're much more likely to bump into a lawyer or finance person. And these aren't the lawyers who do startups (who you probably do bump into in the valley), they're the ones who do condo conversions.