The Next Silicon Valley Will Be in the US Heartland: Steve Case
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#2If I had a dollar for every article about "the next silicon valley", I would be a VC myself by now...
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#3If you make a location unlivable, people won't live there in the future.
Conversely if there's a place that people visit for vacations, people will live there in the future.
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#4You need colleges.
You want the next Silicon Valley, pump money into the CS programs of area colleges.
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#5[doubt]
if i were to bet, it'll be on a different continental plate
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#6I think people need to understand the history of Silicon Valley to see why you need an ethos that comes from individuals
Not just a cluster of tech companies and VCs, which is already a high bar
An area needs a concentration of people made wealthy there, who have to be interested in becoming VCs right there. the state needs the same unenforceability of noncompete laws as california at a bare minimum. dumb things have to be heavily funded all the time, repeatedly, with little scrutiny. high profile failures have to occur.
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#8You need colleges. You want the next Silicon Valley, pump money into the CS programs of area colleges.
And unfortunately, your best universities are not in the heartland and very few in red states. Silicon Valley has the luxury of educational centers, as well as large tech firms that can be used to seed the area with talent they create and attract. You would be hard pressed to find such a confluence of actors in the heartland.
Re: The Next Silicon Valley Will Be in the US Heartland: Steve Case
#9If you make a location unlivable, people won't live there in the future. Conversely if there's a place that people visit for vacations, people will live there in the future.
> If you make a location unlivable, people won't live there in the future.
Yep
> Conversely if there's a place that people visit for vacations, people will live there in the future.
What.
The population of tropical islands, ski-resort towns, and Paris beg to differ.
Re: The Next Silicon Valley Will Be in the US Heartland: Steve Case
#10You need colleges. You want the next Silicon Valley, pump money into the CS programs of area colleges.
There are a lot of universities with good CS programs scattered around the country. I expect if I took a list of the top 50 (or whatever) programs and put pins in a map. I expect you'd see some clusters that correspond to tech centers (Bay Area, Boston), secondary tech centers without an outsized academic presence, and some groupings of schools in areas not especially known as a tech hub.