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>A variant is to stay in touch with other YC-funded startups. There is now a whole neighborhood of them in San Francisco. If you move there, the peer pressure t
by nexuist 7y ago
>A variant is to stay in touch with other YC-funded startups. There is now a whole neighborhood of them in San Francisco. If you move there, the peer pressure that made you work harder all summer will continue to operate.
Funny how much that single sentence changed what life was like on the West Coast. Now we are witnessing mini-Valleys springing up in other cities desperate to replicate what San Francisco did for startups.
- compiler-guy 7y agoThere have been mini Silicon Valley attempts for much longer than there has been a ycombinator. If this sentence changed anything, it is something very small. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_technology_centers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_technology_centers Scroll down to "Places with 'Silicon' names"
- rolltiide 7y ago> Now we are witnessing mini-Valleys springing up in other cities desperate to replicate what San Francisco did for startups. Without the culture to support it. A bunch of broke ideas people sitting in a wework or coffee shop with no angel investor in sight, no diversity in VC portfolios. There is a reason that interest rates are negative, because nobody wants to “stimulate the economy“ by giving broke entrepreneurs their money
- renew0account 7y agowhat's the neighborhood he was referring to? I'm interested to know if it still exists or if it's just been assimilated into the greater Bay Area tech scene.