Comments on: Vivek Wadhwa slaps you in the face, Boston/Rte 128 tech community http://www.masshightech.com/blog/2009/11/02/vivek-wadhwa-slaps-you-in-the-face-bostonrte-128-tech-community/ Aggregating business news from the world of New England technology Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:11:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Flybridge’s Jeff Bussgang thinks you’re special, Boston tech community « Mass High Tech Blog http://www.masshightech.com/blog/2009/11/02/vivek-wadhwa-slaps-you-in-the-face-bostonrte-128-tech-community/comment-page-1/#comment-2980 Flybridge’s Jeff Bussgang thinks you’re special, Boston tech community « Mass High Tech Blog Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:39:49 +0000 http://www.masshightech.com/blog/?p=1645#comment-2980 [...] not a direct response to Vivek Wadhwa’s Boston = No. 2 post on TechCrunch the other day, but Jeff Bussgang offers up a nice counterpoint on his blog [...] [...] not a direct response to Vivek Wadhwa’s Boston = No. 2 post on TechCrunch the other day, but Jeff Bussgang offers up a nice counterpoint on his blog [...]

]]> By: Neena Buck http://www.masshightech.com/blog/2009/11/02/vivek-wadhwa-slaps-you-in-the-face-bostonrte-128-tech-community/comment-page-1/#comment-2885 Neena Buck Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:58:16 +0000 http://www.masshightech.com/blog/?p=1645#comment-2885 There does seem to be this somewhat widely propagated (mis)perception ... that our community of tech execs are all Mr. Burneses ... :) Even while people outside Boston continue to argue the merits of a free-wheeling Silicon Valley culture of entrepreneurship over a supposedly stodgy east coast, this region remains the source of breakthrough ideas and continues to spawn interesting new start-ups. Perhaps Mr. Wadhwa should spend some significant time in the Boston/Rte 128 region before echoing what others before him have written about Silicon Valley and the Boston/Rte 128 tech communities. A visit to Kendall Square wouldn't hurt ... Here's the summary of a recent study that shows the regional impact of start-ups in this geography. http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/MIT_impact_brief_021709.pdf There does seem to be this somewhat widely propagated (mis)perception … that our community of tech execs are all Mr. Burneses … :)

Even while people outside Boston continue to argue the merits of a free-wheeling Silicon Valley culture of entrepreneurship over a supposedly stodgy east coast, this region remains the source of breakthrough ideas and continues to spawn interesting new start-ups.

Perhaps Mr. Wadhwa should spend some significant time in the Boston/Rte 128 region before echoing what others before him have written about Silicon Valley and the Boston/Rte 128 tech communities. A visit to Kendall Square wouldn’t hurt …

Here’s the summary of a recent study that shows the regional impact of start-ups in this geography.

http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/MIT_impact_brief_021709.pdf

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