Tech Startups Don’t Need the Valley Unless They Need VC

Re:Tech Startups Don’t Need the Valley Unless They Need VC by sachinag on Monday March 16, 2009 @01:15AM (#517783)

Look, you get one bite at the apple per idea/situation. A random sample isn't an appropriate counter-factual. Your job as an entrepreneur is to maximize your chances for success given the situation at hand.

I suppose "chances for success" wouldn't have set you off, and I acknowledge that. But we're at the point where we mock people for using "beg the question" incorrectly and ignore the substance of the argument, which isn't really productive for others reading this thread.

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Re:Tech Startups Don’t Need the Valley Unless They Need VC by trapper on Monday March 16, 2009 @06:01AM (#517951)

The only people I have heard that say this, travelling around the world, meeting multiple 9+ digit exit entrepreneurs and tons of 7+, are the ones that started in SV.

I tend to think based on what I read that there are a lot more large exits inside SV than outside. But, there seem to be a lot more early deaths and me-too companies there as well.

Are you optimising for the wrong solution (insane exits)?

[edit: early deaths = companies, not people]

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