people, duh. I meet smart developers everyday, and have lots of hacker types friends. As the expression goes: You can't swing a dead cat on the bay area witho

people, duh. I meet smart developers everyday, and have lots of hacker types friends. As the expression goes: You can't swing a dead cat on the bay area without hitting a good engineer/startupper in the head Try that in any other place. You have to swing that a lot harder. If you are trying to build a great startup you live by the talent, and die if you don't have it. Execution is key. Being frugal and cheap is second.