Re:Startup Hotbed Inferiority Complex
by ivankirigin on Friday July 10, 2009 @07:07PM
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A very smart guy says "ignore everybody" to be creative. Maybe that's harder when there are more people around a lot like you, but not quite. http://www.changethis.com/6.HowToBeCreative
Sounds good in principle, but if you look at the matter empirically, very creative people almost invariably cluster in hubs. Empirically you seem to lose more from being in a backwater than you gain.
Re:Startup Hotbed Inferiority Complex
by ivankirigin on Saturday July 11, 2009 @08:20PM
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Those hubs can be online. Hugh is always on Twitter and often in the bay area.
I've never heard anyone who used this expression offer any evidence or argument to back it up, and this post is no exception.
Till a few months ago I used to live half the time in the Valley and half the time in Boston. I never noticed Boston startups getting any creative boost from not being in the Valley. If anything, it was the opposite: they tended to be constrained by lack of confidence, and by the conservatism of the local investors.