#2 In the Northeast: Philadelphia or Boston (state, bigger, states, better)

[nycricanpapi]

philly

[rotodome]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

Boston, They feed many large Metro areas, like San Jose would be nothing, because all those companies were founded by Harvard or MIT students.

Hmmm. I always associate Stanford with silicon valley tech startups.

[Dub King]

Totally. California's public colleges and universities are a huge part of why the tech industry is based out there.

Originally Posted by rotodome

Hmmm. I always associate Stanford with silicon valley tech startups.

[SirGreenDown]

Originally Posted by MDAllstar

Well DC is right with NYC but # 3 between Boston and Philly would probably be Boston. I think Philly suffers from being in between NYC and DC. If Philly was not sandwiched between NYC and DC, it would probably be 3rd.

Philly is #2 in the Northeast nobody up here is concerned about what DC is doing in the South

And for the record DC is nowhere near NYC and im not talking geographically either.

[btownboss4]

Originally Posted by SirGreenDown

Philly is #2 in the Northeast nobody up here is concerned about what DC is doing in the South

And for the record DC is nowhere near NYC and im not talking geographically either.

Boston Has a larger economy, and GWAC thinks Boston is More important, so I voted Boston

[SirGreenDown]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

Boston Has a larger economy, and GWAC thinks Boston is More important, so I voted Boston

thanks.

[18Montclair]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

Boston, They feed many large Metro areas, like San Jose would be nothing, because all those companies were founded by Harvard or MIT students.

Of San Jose's 13 Fortune 500 companies, only 1 has a founder who attended any school in the Boston Area.

Apple-no affiliation
HP-no affliation
Cisco-no affliliation
Google-no affliliation
Yahoo-no affiliation
eBay-no affliliation
Intel(1 of the 3 founders earned a MBA at Harvard)
Advanced Micro Devices-no affliliation
Symantec-no affiliation
Agilent Technologies-no affliliation
Applied Materials-no afflilation
SanDisk-no affliation
Sanmina-SCI-no affiliation

And Arthur Rock, who is one of Intel's founders, was not an engineer, but a Venture Capitalist.

Silicon Valley existed long before Mark Zuckerberg wisely decided to relocate his company to Palo Alto.

[btownboss4]

Just a note both Harvard medical, and Buisness is in Boston city proper, also a hospital in Boston is the only hospital to do full face transplants, we also are the leader of Bio-tech

[Dub King]

Boston MSA has a larger economy than Philly MSA? Where's that stat hiding?


Also, what's GWAC? Google isn't helping and a search of the forum grew tedious real fast.

Originally Posted by btownboss4

Boston Has a larger economy, and GWAC thinks Boston is More important, so I voted Boston

[18Montclair]

Originally Posted by Dub King

Boston MSA has a larger economy than Philly MSA? Where's that stat hiding?

Philly has a larger MSA economy, Boston has a larger CSA economy.

6. Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-RI-NH CSA $411.505 Billion
Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH Metro Area $298,256
Concord, NH Micro Area
Manchester-Nashua, NH Metro Area $20,865
Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA Metro Area $64,341
Worcester, MA Metro Area $28,043

9. Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA $354.573 Billion
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area $335,112
Reading, PA Metro Area $14,588
Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton, NJ Metro Area $4,873