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Re:Sergey Brin: Come to Silicon Valley to scale a business, ... by runamok on Monday June 27, 2016 @05:46PM (#11989780)
That's more or less Erlich Bachman's strategy in the show "Silicon Valley". Buy a house and rent it to one man startups for equity...

Life imitates art...

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Re:Sergey Brin: Come to Silicon Valley to scale a business, ... by superuser2 on Monday June 27, 2016 @06:01PM (#11989878)
Don't startup incubators long predate the show?
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Re:Sergey Brin: Come to Silicon Valley to scale a business, ... by runamok on Monday June 27, 2016 @07:16PM (#11990259)
> Seems like VCs would do well to buy some housing.

Incubators yes. But exchanging a place to stay for equity (as OP alluded to) is mostly in the realm of the show although it has happened a few times in real life as well...

Example: http://fusion.net/story/134163/silicon-valleys-startup-castl...

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