I raised two angel rounds for Crocodoc -- one in Boston, and one in SV. In Boston I wore business attire to every meeting and was generally asked for a 5-year pro formas. In SV I wore flip flops to coffee shops where I showed off prototypes and talked up our vision to bring down Adobe.
I love Boston, but most of the investors there are so conservative when it comes to web startups that it makes me cringe. There are of course some fantastic investors (e.g. Dharmesh Shah) and exciting new initiatives (e.g. Mass Challenge), but I hope for its own sake that Boston picks up the pace and slows the massive influx of entrepreneurs leaving there for SV.
(For reference I lived in Boston for ~6 years and now SV for ~1 year.)
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I raised two angel rounds for Crocodoc -- one in Boston, and one in SV. In Boston I wore business attire to every meeting and was generally asked for a 5-year pro formas. In SV I wore flip flops to coffee shops where I showed off prototypes and talked up our vision to bring down Adobe.
I love Boston, but most of the investors there are so conservative when it comes to web startups that it makes me cringe. There are of course some fantastic investors (e.g. Dharmesh Shah) and exciting new initiatives (e.g. Mass Challenge), but I hope for its own sake that Boston picks up the pace and slows the massive influx of entrepreneurs leaving there for SV.
(For reference I lived in Boston for ~6 years and now SV for ~1 year.)