Hey All: >From FastCompany with a interview with VC, Brad Feld. Some nice ideas for the Australian tech community. http://www.fastcompany.com/article/why-you-should-start-company-boulder?page=0%2C1&partner=homepage_newsletter
> *You said recently that good cities for entrepreneurial incubators have > "good bones and a chip on its shoulder." What did you mean by that?* > > They're separable but both important. So the good bones concept is: You > have to have smart people. You have to have an independent streak, or a > culture of independence. You have to have a steady supply of new young > people into the community. Because if you don't, what happens is everybody > gets older, has families, changes their priorities. And you have this > stagnation until the younger people get sick of the older people not doing > anything. So you need to sort of have this steady stream. > > You have to have some relevant wealth. So, you know, whether it's angel or > VC investors, having people that have made money from things that are > currently being started is important. If you have a bunch of people who made > money in real estate, it's gonna be really hard to build a tech community. > > The chip on the shoulder is interesting. I mean, there's only-- The whole > Silicon Valley phenomenon is so telling because many major and many minor > cities in the country became "Silicon Something"--Silicon Prairie, silicon > this, silicon that, Silicon Mountain, Silicon Rabbit, Silicon Elephant. > Which is so ironic because silicon is a proxy now for software because > Silicon Valley was started because of the chip companies, so it's even a > moniker that doesn't quite work. The cities that have a little bit of a > complex, like, "We can be better," is a motive because that galvanizes > people to action. And my comment consistently to people is not to be like > Silicon Valley because you're not gonna succeed at that. The goal is to be > the best you can be of yourself. Learn as much as you can from Silicon > Valley and other cultures, but if you're Boulder, be the best Boulder you > can be. If you're Boston, be the best Boston you can be. So going back to > the first comment , use your bones and build something meaningful on that. > And then you have more opportunities. Versus so many companies that say here > are the three things we're gonna do: A, B, and C, and here's our game plan. > And that happens for a year or two and then everybody gets bored or they > don't work. > -- Suhit Anantula www.worldisgreen.com http://anikapandu.posterous.com Yahoo/MSN/Skype ID : suhit_a “The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes" - Marcel Proust
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