Silicon Valley works great if you can tap into it to raise seed/VC funding. If not you're pretty much screwed. You're in California, which is a bad place to do

Silicon Valley works great if you can tap into it to raise seed/VC funding. If not you're pretty much screwed. You're in California, which is a bad place to do business in general - think insane regulations and a 10% state income tax. And in the Valley in particular, tech workers will cost you significantly more than in other parts of the country, let alone the world.