> If an investor community grows up here, it will happen the same way it did in Silicon Valley: slowly and organically. I love this. I'm in Kansas City and fin

> If an investor community grows up here, it will happen the same way it did in Silicon Valley: slowly and organically. I love this. I'm in Kansas City and find myself constantly cringing at the number of projects that all try to be a silver bullet that will magically transform the startup ecosystem here or in any other midwest city. If you want to make some place a good place for startups, then you have to play the long game. You can't be beholden to any political cycles. You can't jump on the startup bandwagon because it's suddenly fashionable. You can't run for the hills as soon as the economy takes a substantive dip. The only answer is to put your head down and try to build whatever you can, and stick with it. If a large number of people do that, then over time, good things will happen.