Last week I attended Ignite Seattle, which is a local Seattle tech/startup/innovation community event. I ran into my friend Fil and we ended up talking about about how Silicon Valley is highly conducive for startups because failure and risk-tasking is so ingrained into the culture. People gravitate towards taking big entrepreneurial bets because everyone around them does the same.
When I was moving to Seattle, the valley was the only other place I considered going. Having made Seattle home and worked here a few years I don't regret the choice one bit. Maybe I don't know what I'm missing :)
Here are some thoughts floating around the media/blogs:
Seattle taps its inner Silicon Valley - NYTimes on teh Seattle startup scene
How green was my valley - Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman on the merits of Seattle as a home to startups
An Outsider's Flawed View of Silicon Valley - Michael Arrington's smackdown of Kelman's post
Rambo, meet Silicon Valley... - Kelman's response
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