Thursday, April 26, 2007

LikeItMatters: Where Is Your Startup? Does It Matter?

http://www.brianoberkirch.com/?p=864
"Next week, Dan Cederholm and I are going to do a panel at SXSW called “ValleySpeak for the Rest of Us: Developing Apps Outside of InternetVille”. We’re looking at what the pros and cons are of trying to do great Web work away from the Bay Area, which is generally looked to as a prime mover for technology innovation.

The irony of global, decentralized technology having an ‘epicenter’ is not lost on me.

So, what impact does geography have on Web startups? While we can point to Google, YouTube, Yahoo, eBay and countless others, we can also point to a number of successful (or at least nascent) Web services that were born elsewhere:"

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