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What is startup culture? Free sodas? Working 90-hour weeks and thinking you're awesome? I guess I never really understood what people refer to as startup cultur

by Tawheed 17y ago

What is startup culture? Free sodas? Working 90-hour weeks and thinking you're awesome? I guess I never really understood what people refer to as startup culture and more importantly how it relates to geography, and I really want to know.

charlesju 17y ago
1. # of startups 2. # of startup conferences 3. # of VCs I think Silicon Valley leads in all 3 of those categories?
- spencerfry 17y ago
  What about quality over quantity?
  - gnosis 17y ago
    How do you measure that?
    - whatusername 17y ago
      profit. (Obviously that's rather hard to measure as an outsider of privately held companies, but profit is surely the yardstick)
- Tawheed 17y ago
  #3 seems to assume that the end-goal of every startup is to get funded by a VC, and that just doesn't jive with me. #2 I'm not sure if San Fran even hosts that many startup conferences. More importantly, the whole model for conferences is broken. Which sane startup can consciously blow $1000+/person on a conference? I think over time, with the advent of conferences publishing the keynotes online anyway, and with more and more meetup groups, conferences will be a non-factor. #1 - I think its cool to be in a place where there are a lot of startups -- but if you really step back and take a look, I wonder how much collaboration (in real life) is actually happening even in NorCal. This is something we need to improve, and is certainly not something that is jiving even in Silicon Valley. I'd dare say that HN is having more real collaboration than San Fran iteself.
philwelch 17y ago
Have you read "Why to Move to a Startup Hub"? http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html
joubert 17y ago
A few months back I went to a VC meet up where one guy said the biggest distinction between NY startups and Valley startups, is that the latter talk more openly about their ideas. Us NY startups, he said, play our cards more guardedly. Not sure if he wasn't just fishing for ideas :-)
- Tawheed 17y ago
  Thats probably because there are so many NY startups working on a Twitter or Facebook extension instead of a real core idea that can stand on its own.
  - krakensden 17y ago
    it's not like there is a drought of shysters and wankers in California though.

by Tawheed 17y ago

charlesju 17y ago

1. # of startups 2. # of startup conferences 3. # of VCs I think Silicon Valley leads in all 3 of those categories?

spencerfry 17y ago
What about quality over quantity?
- gnosis 17y ago
  How do you measure that?
  - whatusername 17y ago
    profit. (Obviously that's rather hard to measure as an outsider of privately held companies, but profit is surely the yardstick)
Tawheed 17y ago
#3 seems to assume that the end-goal of every startup is to get funded by a VC, and that just doesn't jive with me. #2 I'm not sure if San Fran even hosts that many startup conferences. More importantly, the whole model for conferences is broken. Which sane startup can consciously blow $1000+/person on a conference? I think over time, with the advent of conferences publishing the keynotes online anyway, and with more and more meetup groups, conferences will be a non-factor. #1 - I think its cool to be in a place where there are a lot of startups -- but if you really step back and take a look, I wonder how much collaboration (in real life) is actually happening even in NorCal. This is something we need to improve, and is certainly not something that is jiving even in Silicon Valley. I'd dare say that HN is having more real collaboration than San Fran iteself.

philwelch 17y ago

Have you read "Why to Move to a Startup Hub"? http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html

joubert 17y ago

A few months back I went to a VC meet up where one guy said the biggest distinction between NY startups and Valley startups, is that the latter talk more openly about their ideas. Us NY startups, he said, play our cards more guardedly. Not sure if he wasn't just fishing for ideas :-)

Tawheed 17y ago
Thats probably because there are so many NY startups working on a Twitter or Facebook extension instead of a real core idea that can stand on its own.
- krakensden 17y ago
  it's not like there is a drought of shysters and wankers in California though.