He's written about this in the past. "Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe." http://paulgraham.com/maybe.html http://paulgraham.com/maybe.html and "How to Be Sil

He's written about this in the past. "Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe." http://paulgraham.com/maybe.html http://paulgraham.com/maybe.html and "How to Be Silicon Valley" http://paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html http://paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html. He trends towards, "go to them", though: http://paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html http://paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html It comes down to people, money, and time. Exporting Silicon Valley might be the wrong approach. Another place must have its own culture and value system in order to survive and those qualities can't be borrowed. Boulder, Boston, Austin, and to some extent NYC and a few other east coast (of the US) cities (my heart belongs to Baltimore) have burgeoning scenes, but each is different than SV. Where they don't try to simply mimic, I think they're more likely to find success.