Last Night I Experienced Silicon Valley

http://blog.carlmercier.com/2011/11/11/last-night-i-experienced-silicon-valley/

by cmer • 15 years ago

11 7 15 years ago

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inuhj• 15 years ago

cliffs: Silicon Valley is great because there are a lot of tech entrepreneurs to get advice from and share with.

cleverjake• 15 years ago

This is actually almost exactly PG's reasoning on why Silicon Valley will always beat NY in his YCNYC speech. Including the random walk by of ron conway.

timjahn• 15 years ago

"If you are an entrepreneur outside of Silicon Valley and don’t visit the Bay Area on a regular basis, you are way behind."

Come on. There are successful entrepreneurs based all over the world. The Valley is not a requirement.

cmer2• 15 years ago

You are completely missing my point. Scarcity is the problem in other cities.

ChuckMcM• 15 years ago

Thanks for sharing, I think the take away is that the SF Bay area manages to maintain a entrepreneur density that is high enough for these sorts of things to happen. Its important to remember that its a momentum thing, I believe that once you get past a certain tipping point there will be a bubbly pool of entrepreneurs, but there are things that can poison that reaction as well; things like non-compete agreements, tight/non-existent capital, and too much secrecy.

Jasitis• 15 years ago

a very very interesting tagline. out of honest curiosity it occurred to me that tagline of this blog can mean many things: tagline: me = entrepreneur + hacker also implies me - entrepreneur = hacker me - hacker = entrepreneur do you agree that all three meaning are consistent to your context?

cmer2• 15 years ago

Did anybody ever tell you that you tend to over think things? lol! :)

I guess all your variations also apply, but that was never intended.

Last Night I Experienced Silicon Valley

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