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Comment by philwelch | Hacker News Reader

The article isn't loading for me, but didn't this happen a few years ago? I have to wonder, why the submission now?

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.

Wasn't loading for me either. Went to the homepage of that domain and scrolled down til I found it. Article is 8 months old.

Yeah, we just moved our blog stuff around today -- funny to see this old post making the rounds again.

Loaded for me just fine at first, site now seems to be a bit slow :)

Anyway, the point he's trying to make is that it doesn't matter much where your start-up is based in today's day and age.

Unless of course you need to hire someone who doesn't telecommute 100% of the time.

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.

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