yeah, I actually do know, I've seen the team page before.
but afair hn/yc was started solely by pg with jessica's book release shortly thereafter, at least that was the impression I got. other guys must have joined later (or they kept low profile before)
The author of this article unwittingly makes the argument he was trying to oppose, which is that money drives your choice of location.
He acknowledges that his startup was 100% bootstrapped and profitable. In those happy circumstances it doesn't really matter where you are located, unless taking venture capital would help you grow faster (if fast growth is your goal).
However most startups wouldn't exist without some capital, and Silicon Valley has the highest concentration of wealthy tech investors. Those investors like to be able to keep a close eye on their investment, ergo all the entrepreneurs cluster where the money is.
Not loading for me either... so not sure what it's really about. But if the headline is any indication, it seems like sort of a strange sentiment. Didn't TechStars Boston just have their first demo day recently? And isn't Venture Cafe set to open soon in Cambridge? And aren't there are a ton of successful (subjectivity alert) startups in the Boston-area (Compete, mZinga, Communispace, gamerDNA, HubSpot, Xconomy... just to name a few)?
From a semi-outsider perspective, the entrepreneurial community in Boston seems fairly healthy even without YC.
Uh, right, because talented people only ever live in Silicon Valley (or the largest 20 cities, or whatever). Every startup's prospects relate to their geography uniquely, and the herd has nothing to do with where any particular startup should be located.
All of us liked being in Cambridge, We certainly didn't leave because there weren't like-minded people there. But being bi-coastal sucks, so we had to choose.
