I don't think these are "startups" like a couple of guys and a beer keg - they are looking at well-funded business ventures.
Plus, tech isn’t the only startup dimension. Boston has a ton of medical stuff too.
Apollo, Akamai, BBN, DEC, Data General, Draper Labs, EMC, Prime, Raytheon, Stratus, Thinking Machines, Wang...and numerous others I'm probably forgetting.
The 128 and 495 belt used to chock full of tech companies.
Nowadays it's a lot of bioscience startups.
>Boston at number 6? ... I find this list hard to take too seriously.
and silicon valley london, new york, tel aviv, and los angeles are ranked higher than it; the headline, that seattle dropped to 20, is the headline.
after Boston are singapore, beijing, seoul, tokyo, shanghai, and washington dc.
what is your suggested list? I just don't understand what you and many other commenters are saying.
I find this list hard to take too seriously. Despite the city's incredible university culture it's always been fundamentally anti-startup from it's very nature.
Boston is a city were credentials matter far more than ideas, and even then there's a strong, strong culture of "you aren't special, nobody is". People are skeptical of new ideas, compensation for tech has always been abysmal, and people tend to be surprisingly risk adverse.
I've lived there a few times, and there are parts of the city I love, but nobody seriously interested in anything disruptive is going to be hanging in that area too long after graduation.