New Hampshire is building a tech cluster in Boston’s shadow

When New Hampshire native Gerard Murphy was searching for his tech start-up’s first office space, he considered joining the throngs of other ambitious Web entrepreneurs crowding Cambridge’s Kendall Square and filling up Boston’s Innovation District.

But instead he opted to do what a growing number of young Granite State techies are doing: stay put and try to build up the state’s own Internet economy amid this city’s 19th-century textile buildings along the Merrimack River.

"Cambridge is expensive. Boston is expensive. You get a little bit of a discount when you hire employees in Manchester," said Murphy, who cofounded an online photo storage company, Mosaic Storage Systems Inc., last year. "The Internet is no less fast in Manchester than it is in Cambridge."

By Michael B. Farrell

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