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  Quoted: David Mandell of PivotDesk on Boulder's startup dilemma
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  PivotDesk CEO David Mandell, of Boulder, at the SXSW Interactive Screw the Valley, We Want to Build a Boulder panel:
  "That's kind of the Boulder dilemma. We've got a lot of companies doing well, but we haven't had any big breakout successes. One of the dilemmas we have is real estate — it's hard for companies to expand.
  "We've had a lot of very good exits from Boulder but we're still waiting for the big brand to make the town."
  "The key to any startup community in my mind is entrepreneurial density. [Startup] accelerators are a great way to explode [entrepreneurial density].
  "One of the things that happens in Boulder: You ask someone do you have 10 minutes [to give some advice], they say 'yes.' In New York that never happened.
  "Government doesn't understand startups, they don't understand what startups need. It's really all about getting entrepreneurs together. As soon as that starts that starts attracting people with similar interests and that's when you start to grow.