Tech takes over: New York is the sector's second city

Re:Tech takes over: New York is the sector's second city by clairity on Monday February 26, 2018 @01:18PM (#16467559)

in my head (a totally unscientific read of the zeitgeist), it's

  1. SF/SV (by a very wide margin)
  2. LA, NYC, boston (3-way tie)
  3. seattle, austin (2-way tie)
  4. atlanta, chicago, and everywhere else

obviously this is US-only since i don't know much about the international startup scene other than china in general has been exploding with competitive startups (although that seems to have cooled a bit?).

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Re:Tech takes over: New York is the sector's second city by Apocryphon on Monday February 26, 2018 @01:57PM (#16467906)

I feel like 2. and 3. are switched. LA/NY are tech cities because they are huge population areas with a lot of wealth, and so support almost every type of industry. Seattle and Austin both sound more like tech cultural cities, as they are smaller but more defined by tech, with both local giants (maybe ATX less so) and startups.

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Re:Tech takes over: New York is the sector's second city by replicatorblog on Monday February 26, 2018 @01:56PM (#16467898)

I'd move Boston into tier 3. It's actually an incredibly rich ecosystem, I'd put it #3 just behind SF/Seattle in terms of real-world impact, market cap of tech co's, etc. But no one really moves to Boston to start a company, they tend to be the folks who hung around after Harvard/MIT.

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Re:Tech takes over: New York is the sector's second city by dmode on Monday February 26, 2018 @06:20PM (#16469889)

Austin belongs to Tier 4. It is no way close to Seattle in terms of tech jobs and growing tech scenes

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