Boston VCs don’t want to let another big one get away

Re:Boston VCs don’t want to let another big one get away by anamax on Monday July 11, 2011 @12:28AM (#2749494)

The "VCs let Facebook get away" theory seems to imply that Facebook could have been built in Mass.

Could facebook have been built in MA?

In SV, Facebook could poach from Google's mothership and the alums, not to mention Yahoo, etc. Are there enough comparable people in Mass?

And, even if there are, are they available? Doesn't Mass have enforceable fairly-general non-competes? Do the Mass companies that currently employ the folks that Facebook would have hired use them?

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Re:Boston VCs don’t want to let another big one get away by kragen on Monday July 11, 2011 @01:48AM (#2749629)

Agreed.

Also, California has this lovely law that guarantees that your employer doesn't own what you develop on your own time without using company equipment in areas that aren't the company's business. Which means that in California, an awful lot of people who would otherwise have continued working for HP, Shockley, IBM, Apple, and so on, went out and started companies — the companies that have, over the last 30 years, brought the people that Facebook needed to hire to California. Not to Massachusetts.

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