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Dull, secretive nerds costing Boston innovative companies
By adamg on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 11:04am
Jennie White lists three ways Boston can stop losing The Next Big Startups from decamping for California: More parties and risk taking and fewer secrets:
... Hate to break it to you, but your ideas aren't that amazing and neither our mine. But our ideas could hit awesome status if we shared them with each other; two heads are better then one. Call that guy who you met at last night's event and ask him if you can bounce some ideas off each other. It's the execution that matters, not necessarily the big-picture idea. ...
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I like what she has to say.
I like what she has to say. Seriously. And that makes this next part hard: dear god, her writing is atrocious. I'm not picking on her for the typos (but just to be clear, it's a minefield over there), it's the grade-school grammar.
Whats innovation?
Do you think another social network, another iphone app about restaurants or another niche search engine is something special? It isn't.
Also, I don't know what world this girl lives in, or if her family is wealthy, but not everyone can just fly by the seat of their pants and start a company and pay slave wages. People are hoping if they suffer a year or two they'll get bought by a big company...so effectively they are looking for some 'Whore-nivation' the first person to pay them out of debt.
SiillyCon Valley is full of "my startup is youtube meets friendster meets twitter on Amazon EC2" - what the Hell is that? ;)