On 05/10/2007, Mr I Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul Graham this morning said you should move to silicon valley if your > serious about this stuff or at least its an "advantage."
Paul wrote some related thoughts in H&P (or an essay on his site from 04/05) comparing Boston to the Valley, so that's not all that suprising from him. On the one hand, yes you can run a web startup (or any business, cf. Timothy Ferriss) from anywhere you can get Internet access - as isolated as your yacht in the middle of the med, even - but on the other, if you're not in a social circle that is keenly discussing the microtrends of the web elite, you are likely to miss out on some sharp insights. You just can't figure everything out on your own. And Paul is equating that social circle to business advantage, that a larger and keener that social circle is a larger advantage, and that the largest is in the valley. So move there, if you want as many advantages as you can possibly make for your startup. If you're running a bank, probably you'll have your head offices in London or New York. Same deal. -- Regards, Dave - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
