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You've got to be kidding. Evan Williams who co-founded Blogger, Odeo, and Twitter is from there. He tried to do several startups in Omaha before deciding that t
by rabble 17y ago
You've got to be kidding. Evan Williams who co-founded Blogger, Odeo, and Twitter is from there. He tried to do several startups in Omaha before deciding that the problem was the place. So he moved to San Francisco and has been very successful. Follow his advice.
- danfitch 17y agohttp://evhead.com/2007/11/where-should-you-be.asp http://evhead.com/2007/11/where-should-you-be.asp
- rsheridan6 17y ago>I got a job at O'Reilly as a marketing coordinator for their software group as a way to get me to California. I was 25. I had no degree or significant tangible skills. (I could "code" HTML, ColdFusion, VB...and write marketing copy.) I had spent the last few years trying to get my own Internet company going in Nebraska, which was a painful (but educational) mess. Maybe the problem was not so much Nebraska but the fact that he had no significant or tangible skills - in 1994-1997, when it would have probably been more difficult for a guy in the middle of nowhere to pick up the necessary skills by himself.
- josefresco 17y agoOne guy? Were supposed to relocate our lives based on one guy's lottery-winning experience?
- dws 17y agoCitation? Evan is from near Lincoln, a significantly smaller city.