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by carmen 5442 days ago
why should each city have the same skillset and specializations? that sounds pretty boring. is SF leading the way in bio and health-care innovations? what about open-source data-y stuff like Cornell's DuraSpace, MIT's SIMILE, Encyclopedia of Life, Brown's Racket (our own little INRIA this side the atlantic?!)..

i moved back to boston from TL after 3 years because all i could find for work in SF was the least-common-denominator/proprietary/centralized/consumer webapp startups that this article is apparently hoisting up as the end-all of aspirations. maybe i wasn't looking hard enough but it's a lot easier to find things i'm into in boston
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jeremymims 5442 days ago
It's a misconception that all YC startups are focused entirely on consumer web apps (and considering the YC company I'm a part of is mostly B2B shouldn't reinforce this notion). There are a bunch of amazing startups working on the hard technology problems you yourself prefer to work on. Storage, databases, application hosting, and more can all be found at YC.

New York hasn't shied away from hard technology problems either. 10gen invented MongoDB.

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rdl 5442 days ago
YC has a surprisingly large number of b2b startups which require real knowledge of a problem domain, using either the web or just computers/Internet as tools to solve the problem.

A smaller number of real infrastructure companies, but there are some.

As far as I know, not many non-computer/electronics tech (life sciences, cleantech, etc.).

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