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the technology park/corridor concept won't make it happen. building a "funky" building and slapping the incubator tag on it doesn't work. i belive it can only
by samb 19y ago
the technology park/corridor concept won't make it happen. building a "funky" building and slapping the incubator tag on it doesn't work. i belive it can only happen organically. you can't force it. it's not like making soup.
- sabat 19y agoAgreed. One of the reasons it works here in SF CA is because of the type of people we attract -- and have been attracting for 150+ years. Do-it-yourselfers, iconoclasts, vagabonds, that type of person. Twain, London, those guys. Seriously. It takes an adventurer to want to build a startup, and for whatever reason, CA attracts those types. Obviously that's not the only reason, but I think it's a factor.
- parker 19y agoSo, the secret is a high bohemian ratio?? Man, I've gotta start eating organic. :P But I totally agree, you've got to be a certain personality type to start a startup, and that kind of eccentricity usually finds a way of conglomerating together. That culture certainly does propagate itself; I know where I live, it's almost a taboo to start something yourself. I've never been to SF yet, but I get the feeling that it espouses a completely different kind of philosophy?