Re: [backstage] From FoWA - Paul Graham from Y Combinator
On 05/10/2007, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So move there, if you want as many advantages as you can possibly make for your startup. But you can find a sharp circle of friends who are into this stuff pretty much anywhere, and if they are sharp enough - Jaiku (finland) and Placez (germany) are probably good examples - then you'll do fine. Google's internal culture is probably the sharpest possible right now, comparable to Microsoft RD in the 1990s or Xerox PARC in the 70s, I guess. -- 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] From FoWA - Paul Graham from Y Combinator
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 HP (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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
RE: [backstage] From FoWA - Paul Graham from Y Combinator
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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
[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_paul_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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
