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One thing I don't understand is this notion that any startup can happen only in the valley,or if someone starts there, it's 100 times easier. The main benefit,w
by cosmodisk 6y ago
One thing I don't understand is this notion that any startup can happen only in the valley,or if someone starts there, it's 100 times easier. The main benefit,which the US startups take for granted is the market size. You don't need to learn German, French ,or Spanish just to sell to your neighbors.
- ithinkso 6y agoWell, of the two neighbors, one speaks Spanish and the other speaks French a bit
- jerrre 6y agoI think the point is that the US is so big that you don't to reach the neighbors
- hinkley 6y agoWhen I was coming up there was a huge brain drain going on from the midwest. A lot of those people ended up in Seattle, because of Seattle, NYC and SF, Seattle seems the smallest culture change (that is of course debatable, especially with the Seattle Freeze). Since then Chicago has become eminent in fintech, so I expect some people end up there, but that's not everybody's speed either. Saint Louis is also pretty centrally located from an Internet infrastructure standpoint and as far as I'm aware they've not amounted to much of anything from an IT standpoint since ftp.wustl.edu. It looks like Boeing, Square, and a bunch of banks have offices there. That may have to do with secondary issues like the quality of education in Missouri. Undergrads might not give a damn but founders and VCs might care quite a bit.