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> We don't have a neighborhood like, say, South Park, where you have a ton of smaller startup companies concentrated into a fairly small area, or even a common district home to all the large tech companies, like the bay area has.

Where is this "common district home to all of the large tech companies, like the bay area has" that you're referring to?

If you're thinking of Mountain View, Palo Alto, or San Francisco, you're talking about a fairly large area that is also home to lots of other things. If you're thinking of some neighborhood in SF or Berkeley, you're missing a huge fraction of the startups in the Bay Area.




They did say South Park and I believe that and SoMA have most of the startup action, don't they?


> They did say South Park and I believe that and SoMA have most of the startup action, don't they?

I doubt it. (I've never heard of "South Park" and I've been in the Bay Area for years. I thought that SP was a reference to some NY district.)

SoMA may have about as many startups as NYC, but that's not enough to be "most" in the Bay Area.


http://www.nbcbayarea.com/around-town/debates/Best_Startup_N...

You should really go check South Park out, it is a pretty part of town too.


That reference says that South Park is a part of SoMA, a part that I worked in a couple of years ago. (SF is "famous" for folks inventing neighborhood names. They often do so to try to influence real estate values.)

Like I said, SoMA, let alone South Park, is not where "most" Bay Area startups are, even if it has more than the most popular NYC district.




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