I attended the FOWA conference and have quite a blog post saved up from
my notes.
But I wanted to explorer the myths or truths of Silicon Valley. Paul
Graham this morning said you should move to silicon valley if your
serious about this stuff or at least its an "advantage." This caused
quite a stir and prompted Ryan Carson (co-owner of the conference) to
stand on stage afterwards and say its not about Silicon Valley and you
can run successful start-ups anywhere in the world. This was further
brought up in a discussion with the guys from Jaiku (finland) and Placez
(germany). Tom Coates announced late this afternoon (not seen anything
on his blog about it) he would be moving to San Francisco to run the
yahoo startup-like project The Brickhouse (congrats tom!). And finally
Dick Costolo from Feedburner (Chicago) had a few choice words to say
about Paul Graham's its all about Silicon Valley comments.
So anyway, I wondered what others felt about this issue? Bobbie has a
nice overview of what was said by Paul earlier -
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/10/04/future_of_web_apps_paul_graham.html
Cheers
Ian
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