don't you have to believe that distance is so unimportant to startups that it's fine to be in a locale that has 1/1000th the number of startups as SFBA, but als

don't you have to believe that distance is so unimportant to startups that it's fine to be in a locale that has 1/1000th the number of startups as SFBA, but also so important that you prescribe what cross streets they set up on in your own town? One would have to believe that networks and modern infrastructure can make certain factors of distance unimportant, while one can still encourage enough beneficial interactions in a smaller community outside of SFBA. This is why I brought up the idea of a particular niche. It seems very unlikely one could compete in all areas, while there have been many historical precedents for explosions in rates of creative realization and/or production resulting from concentrations of specialists in a particular craft. The real problem with distance being unimportant in tech, is that any such bloom could be quickly drawn to SFBA and relocated there. For such a thing to work, there would need to be something else keeping the group of specialists in the outlying community.