The genesis of this post was me thinking: "man, I don't really want to move to Silicon Valley." I have a family, and I'm happy where we live. I started looking

The genesis of this post was me thinking: "man, I don't really want to move to Silicon Valley." I have a family, and I'm happy where we live. I started looking at where some of my favorite bootstrapped companies were headquartered: almost all of them were located outside of the Valley (with the exception of GitHub [no longer bootstrapped]). I have a lot of respect for Rob Walling and his business philosophy. I just looked him up: he lives in Fresno! While it depends on the idea, it seems there are many software companies that could really be started anywhere. The one notable challenge: finding talent (which seems to be an issue everywhere, and might be resolved by allowing people to work remotely).