Re:Why is it hard to startup a company outside of Silicon Va...
by staunch on Thursday August 16, 2007 @03:04AM
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> The crazy thing about the place is, every time I ride the BART or sit down at a coffee shop there's someone sitting next to me that's either works at Yahoo/ebay/google/etc or is also doing a startup.
A friend just moved from LA to SF and said the exact same thing. That's one of the most exciting parts of moving to the area for me (which I will be doing). The least exciting part is how crappy a lot of the city of SF is.
The Valley is where you go to be a successful technology entrepreneur. It's that global perception that gives it the hard-to-identify edge over everywhere else. Hollywood has the same advantage.
As a competitor I'd fear a startup in The Valley a lot more than an otherwise equal one that's located anywhere else.
A friend just moved from LA to SF and said the exact same thing. That's one of the most exciting parts of moving to the area for me (which I will be doing). The least exciting part is how crappy a lot of the city of SF is.
The Valley is where you go to be a successful technology entrepreneur. It's that global perception that gives it the hard-to-identify edge over everywhere else. Hollywood has the same advantage.
As a competitor I'd fear a startup in The Valley a lot more than an otherwise equal one that's located anywhere else.