0 Checking in on Boston’s Innovation Economy

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WeWork Cambridge

Success and failures is measured more clearly with the benefit of time. Have a peak at how the innovative economy has performed in recent history on BetaBoston:

[Boston] startups [collected] $7.4 billion in funding this year — a 30 percent jump from 2014…[and] higher than any year since 2000, when dot-com mania pushed investment in Massachusetts startups above $10 billion, according to the financial data provider PitchBook. A single company in Cambridge, Moderna Therapeutics, announced a $450 million funding roundback in January — the biggest private funding infusion for a biotech startup ever.

0 Is Your Office Building Comcast Ready? Check Here

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Credit: Comcast

For small tenants the cost of reliable internet service is a must.  Companies that fall into a small to mid-sized footprint in most cases are unwilling to use a fiber connection, but would prefer a business class product from Comcast.  No all buildings are equal; meaning some have Comcast Business Class where the building next store might not.  Why is that, if one has it shouldn’t they all?  Well no, Comcast will install their service into a building if they can get enough subscribers, if not, they will charge to install it.  Most landlords are unwilling to burden the installation costs and as a result the building stays dark from Comcast.

Well, now you can quickly check if Comcast services the building your are interested in move your office to at:

http://business.comcast.com/service-availability/check-availability