TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incubator In Boston

Re:TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incuba... by vaksel on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @12:17AM (#484141)

I don't really believe that this is just a coincidence. If they were planning a second location they wouldn't have gone to Boston where there was YC. They would have tried to go some place w/o much competition, like New York.

And if they were indeed planning to take YC on, why Boston and not Silicon Valley?

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Re:TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incuba... by andrewhyde on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @12:34AM (#484157)

Strong ties to Boston with the founders of TC. Brad Feld went to MIT and still has a strong and love for the area. David Cohen sold one of his startups there.

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Re:TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incuba... by jfarmer on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @12:41AM (#484162)

Because YC is supply-constrained. If you believe there are more fundable opportunities than YC can handle then it makes perfect sense to "compete" in Boston.

I wouldn't be surprised if it were all just a story, though.

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Re:TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incuba... by jfarmer on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @02:55AM (#484256)

pg commented above, so that can't be their reason. Maybe they just like Boston?

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Re:TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incuba... by unalone on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @12:31AM (#484153)

Because there's a gap in Boston that needs filling? A lot of start-ups want to go to Boston, or can't make it to California.

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Re:TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incuba... by vaksel on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @12:32AM (#484156)

Yeah but according to them, they were planning to go to Boston when YC was already filling that gap.

So if you wanted to fill a gap, why not go somewhere that doesn't have an incubator program in the first place?

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Re:TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incuba... by unalone on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @12:37AM (#484160)

Because Boston's an incredibly dense city? I dunno, I'm just guessing.

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Re:TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incuba... by nabeel on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @07:21AM (#484416)

As someone else mentioned, both David Cohen and Brad Feld have a history in Boston, it's where they got their start (as it has been for many others thanks to MIT and Harvard). There was also a strong push for quite a while from the Boston and Cambridge entrepreneurial community.

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Re:TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incuba... by kbrower on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @10:13AM (#484541)

Is there any competition at all in NYC?

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