This is quite interesting given the "London startup scene is dead, world revolves around Silicon Valley" post by Paul Carr from today too. What gives? You can succeed anywhere; some parts of it may be easier in the Valley, but it's not the only place successful businesses are growing by any means.
Startup Hotbed Inferiority Complex
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#12"the creative cost of living in an echo chamber" I've never heard anyone who used this expression offer any evidence or argument to back it up, and this post is no exception. Till a few months ago I used to live half the time in the Valley and half the time in Boston. I never noticed Boston startups getting any creative boost from not being in the Valley. If anything, it was the opposite: they tended to be constraine…
A very smart guy says "ignore everybody" to be creative. Maybe that's harder when there are more people around a lot like you, but not quite. http://www.changethis.com/6.HowToBeCreative
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#13I think it all depends on people's personality type. Extrovert will be more successful when he lives in a startup hotbed.
Introvert doesn't need anybody, he can live anywhere he likes.
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#14"the creative cost of living in an echo chamber" I've never heard anyone who used this expression offer any evidence or argument to back it up, and this post is no exception. Till a few months ago I used to live half the time in the Valley and half the time in Boston. I never noticed Boston startups getting any creative boost from not being in the Valley. If anything, it was the opposite: they tended to be constraine…
A very smart guy says "ignore everybody" to be creative. Maybe that's harder when there are more people around a lot like you, but not quite. http://www.changethis.com/6.HowToBeCreative
Sounds good in principle, but if you look at the matter empirically, very creative people almost invariably cluster in hubs. Empirically you seem to lose more from being in a backwater than you gain.
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#15Sure, a lot of successful tech companies come out of Silicon Valley, but there's a disproportionate amount of tech companies in Silicon Valley to begin with. It's certainly not obvious that the success rate is any higher there.
You could use the same argument to "prove" that the hub of any industry is not a particularly good place to do that kind of work. By the same reasoning, LA is not a particularly good place to make movies, or New York to run a hedge fund.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
A very smart guy says "ignore everybody" to be creative. Maybe that's harder when there are more people around a lot like you, but not quite. http://www.changethis.com/6.HowToBeCreative
Sounds good in principle, but if you look at the matter empirically, very creative people almost invariably cluster in hubs. Empirically you seem to lose more from being in a backwater than you gain.
Those hubs can be online. Hugh is always on Twitter and often in the bay area.