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It's a great place to start a family. Housing is a lot cheaper, and the people are hard workers. There's a lot of really smart people in the Midwest who will
by swalsh 8y ago
It's a great place to start a family. Housing is a lot cheaper, and the people are hard workers.
There's a lot of really smart people in the Midwest who will dedicate themselves to your cause because they have a family to take care of. The midwest will probably never be competitive for top AI talent, but it already has some of the hardest working, and most loyal talent.
Most companies don't need genius, they just need someone with a lot of grit. The Midwest has vast swaths of folks with grit.
- nostrademons 8y agoThat same level-headedness and sense of responsibility can be a liability when it comes to startups. Most successful startups are insane when people first start working on them; if they weren't, someone would already have done them, and the market opportunity would be filled. (I had a Boston-based mentor who's already had two successful exits tell me once, "The only startups I've ever seen succeed are the ones where some engineer figured they could do something thought to be impossible.") It's very hard to justify devoting years of your life to working on something believed to be impossible or a waste of time if you have a family to support, and a deep-seated belief in using your time productively.
- mooreds 8y agoSo I might phrase it as "the Midwest is a great place for a startup to grow in" because what you said about families and startups is very true. When a company is ready for steady loyal employees, they can come to the Midwest and find them. As many companies are starting to do.