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Gives me an idea for audacious and fearless entrepreneurs : go start a new city and make it the new high tech center of the world. Actually, it's an obsession
by bsaul 11y ago
Gives me an idea for audacious and fearless entrepreneurs : go start a new city and make it the new high tech center of the world.
Actually, it's an obsession many countries had for the last 25 years : create the new silicon valley. Nobody has ever succeeded.
Now, another idea : instead of making this city in the real world, just create it virtually on the web. With all the people working from remote places, the physicial location doesn't really matter that much anymore... You'll need online universities, research labs, and places to hang out and meet people. That would be a fun project.
- vjoshi 11y agoI don't know. I'd say London's 'Silicon Roundabout' and Medellin, Columbia have successfully given a crack at the startup scene and that's to name a few.. On your virtual city idea, I genuinely think with the success of second life, you're onto something here buddy .. I'd join
- dvirsky 11y agoTel Aviv has become one as well. Result: it's super expensive and all the young people have to leave it or live in places only slightly better than these shared bunks.
- vjoshi 11y agoYep, I can relate to that. As a "city worker", am still living at home with the parents. The rent here just doesn't make sense anymore and I am fortunate I have the luxury of being able to do so. Those few who are fortunate enough to drive up rent prices are 98% working in 1 of x industries ... everyone else who isn't, suffers
- dvirsky 11y agoYep. The implications of this on the health of such cities are really bad.
- mahmud 11y agoTony Hsieh, founder of Zappos, is trying to turn Vegas into just that. Wish him luck! http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/350-million-might-not-be-enough-to-save-las-vegas/386213/ http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/350-mill...
- baby 11y agoArg... why Vegas? I would start that somewhere in the philippins/thailand/indonesia...
- raverbashing 11y agoThe cargo-culting of "having to bring your startup to SF" is getting tiring Successful startups pop everywhere. Lots in the East Coast (ok, NYC) Sure, the financing is there, but maybe, if SF is the only place your startup can get funding then maybe your business model is not the greatest?
- tajano 11y ago> Lots in the East Coast (ok, NYC) Lots in Boston, too.
- simonebrunozzi 11y agoOk, I have to say it: this exact idea has been sort of a small obsession of mine for the last few years. I thought about many aspects of it, however the main barrier I see is that you cannot start anything like this without a budget that exceeds tens of millions of dollars (and being able to involve additional hundreds of millions of dollars). How do you solve this?