By coincidence I read this on the future of web startups from paul graham just today: http://www.paulgraham.com/webstartups.html
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mr I Forrester Sent: 05 October 2007 01:48 To: BBC Backstage Subject: [backstage] From FoWA - Paul Graham from Y Combinator I attended the FOWA conference and have quite a blog post saved up from my notes. But I wanted to explorer the myths or truths of Silicon Valley. Paul Graham this morning said you should move to silicon valley if your serious about this stuff or at least its an "advantage." This caused quite a stir and prompted Ryan Carson (co-owner of the conference) to stand on stage afterwards and say its not about Silicon Valley and you can run successful start-ups anywhere in the world. This was further brought up in a discussion with the guys from Jaiku (finland) and Placez (germany). Tom Coates announced late this afternoon (not seen anything on his blog about it) he would be moving to San Francisco to run the yahoo startup-like project The Brickhouse (congrats tom!). And finally Dick Costolo from Feedburner (Chicago) had a few choice words to say about Paul Graham's its all about Silicon Valley comments. So anyway, I wondered what others felt about this issue? Bobbie has a nice overview of what was said by Paul earlier - http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/10/04/future_of_web_apps_pau l_graham.html Cheers Ian - 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]/ - 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]/
