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Re:Why is it hard to startup a company outside of Silicon Va... by pg on Thursday August 16, 2007 @11:48AM (#43045)
If SV investors habitually invested in crap companies, they'd have run out of money by now. Instead they are richer than ever.

Nor are their investment choices what you think they are. For every frothy social app SV investors fund, they fund two boring b2b companies that you don't hear about because you are not the target market.

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Re:Why is it hard to startup a company outside of Silicon Va... by far33d on Thursday August 16, 2007 @12:02PM (#43055)
Seriously. I've never seen as many bentley's as I have in the parking garages on Sand Hill Road.
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Re:Why is it hard to startup a company outside of Silicon Va... by menloparkbum on Thursday August 16, 2007 @05:50PM (#43211)
South Florida has far more. Retired New Jersey businessmen and south american drug dealers are more into the Bentley motif.
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Re:Why is it hard to startup a company outside of Silicon Va... by dfranke on Thursday August 16, 2007 @08:08PM (#43280)
I lived there for 15 years and didn't see all that many. But I lived in Parkland, which is a bit north of the drug dealers and a bit south of the retired businessmen.
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Re:Why is it hard to startup a company outside of Silicon Va... by menloparkbum on Friday August 17, 2007 @12:39AM (#43354)
Parkland is at the southern edge of the first Bentley Belt, which extends from West Palm Beach to Boca. I've seen at least six Bentleys in Boca. The only other place I've ever seen one was curbside at LAX. I've never seen a Bentley anywhere in the Bay Area.

Fareed's comment is weird. Where is there a parking garage on Sand Hill Road?

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Re:Why is it hard to startup a company outside of Silicon Va... by far33d on Friday August 17, 2007 @01:00AM (#43362)
It was the garage under the building that the techcrunch party was at.

Astons, bentleys, high end benz's... the works.

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Re:Why is it hard to startup a company outside of Silicon Va... by menloparkbum on Friday August 17, 2007 @01:30AM (#43380)
Ahh, makes sense.
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Re:Why is it hard to startup a company outside of Silicon Va... by andrew_null on Sunday August 19, 2007 @06:26PM (#44153)
er, parking garages?

I work on Sand Hill and there's very very few garages around here. Just lots of open parking lots all over the place.

Also the culture here is to leave the fancy cars at home and drive a high-end (but not exotic) german car to work. In fact, tons of guys drive Priuses. Not too many bentleys - it'd be considered too crass.

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