New York and New England: Tech partnerships already happening - Mass High Tech Business News

Interesting piece that makes an attempt to link Boston-to-NYC together in a tech corridor, analogous to Silicon Valley. I don’t think it works, perhaps because there are a bunch of states involved that don’t really work together on texch policy, taxation, etc.

And even though I am from Boston originally, I sort of threw up in my mouth at this characterization:

Still, there is a growing trend in the New York-New England corridor of taking advantage of what each city has to offer, and that means basically that the Greater Boston area has the brains and New York has the bodies – not in the sense of dumb bodies, but the trained content creators and media workers needed to produce product at a commercial scale.

“In Boston here, we crank out a gajillion engineers from really good institutions,” Pescatello said. And Ohanian pointed out that New York dominates in media creation. “Most of the media produced in the United States comes from a pretty small radius around mid-town New York,” he said.

Pescatello also pointed out another difference between the cities is in venture capital. “The VC sector in Boston is bigger and stronger in Boston than in New York,” he said.