Scobleizer: The new worldwide startup

In my "world" almost no one uses Twitter, 4square or any other new technology/tools. This means starting a new trend and getting early adapters (from within my social circle) is extremely hard.

Twitter could never get started here. FourSquare would of never got enough usage to prove the concept.

IMHO, this is a very important point for social (and many other types) of startups.

- the obnoxious plug for "his company." It's a little hard to miss amongst the idiocy suggesting that until recently, the only place you could find data centers was in Silicon Valley. Never mind that "his company", Rackspace, is located in Texas and has nine data centers, none of which happen to be in California.

- this bit about foursquare:

"Go to a local coffee shop in your neighborhood, for instance, and ask people what Foursquare is. I guarantee you that in most Silicon Valley coffee shops you’ll find someone. Not so in most other places in the world."

I can think of many neighborhoods where this is demonstrably false, starting with the neighborhood in NYC where Foursquare is located.

- the paragraph talking about how low corporate tax rates are in Vancouver (noticeably discounting the rest of Canada), a city probably best known for insane cost of living, immediately followed by a paragraph talking about how the rest of the world has much lower cost of living than the bay area.

Not only doesn't he have a good understanding of the industry he works in, but he seems to lack a basic understanding of geography, politics and economics.

My personal theory is that one of the key reasons for the "globalization" of the startup culture is the preponderance of cluelessness in the pundit community in northern California.