Boston’s venture capitalists are stepping up efforts to get close to young entrepreneurs and to step out of the shadow of Silicon Valley.
Thursday night they launched a collaborative workspace called CriticalMass in a Cambridge office building near Massachusetts Institute of Technology, just down the avenue from Harvard University where Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook. Of course, he then moved to California, which some think sort of symbolizes Boston’s problem.
Perhaps the Asian hors d’oeuvres at the launch party were meant to infuse a cool, West Coast vibe. Down the hall, draft beer flowed at the weekly Venture Café. If you stayed away from the windows – it was snowing – you could imagine yourself at a South of Market (San Francisco, that is) shindig.
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Author: Russell Garland
