"... All tech startups need just a few ingredients to germinate: sophisticated money; first-rate technology universities; and a few template successes ..." Tru

"... All tech startups need just a few ingredients to germinate: sophisticated money; first-rate technology universities; and a few template successes ..." True. At a local perlmongers meet some years ago Brent Chapman of Majordomo fame http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majordomo_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majordomo_(software) "who wrote this as his first Perl hack", talked about how there is nothing stopping you creating a Startup anywhere but in SV things just happen a lot faster due to the concentration of knowledge, facilities and people. Another thing he commented on. Debugging some obscure bit of code and talking about it while eating out there's a greater chance the staff are aware of a potential solution. New York has out of work actors working in Coffee shops. SV has developers. So areas that are outside major Startup clusters this could effect your success.