Come out to one of the many hi-tech communities in Fly-Over Country and build an alternative to Silicon Valley. It’s time.
“Come out to one of the many hi-tech communities in Fly-Over Country and build an alternative to Silicon Valley”
The key is venture capital. And you can spend your life trying to coax a Thiel or two to show up, but they have a weird little cult lifestyle: they don’t like to drive very far to check on their companies.
That, in a nutshell, is the real reason everything is concentrated in the Santa Clara Valley.
So you have to do it on your own. You might get one or two of them, not much more.
Phoenix did it in the ‘60s with the Phoenix 40. Austin sorta kinda did it with a few offshoots from UT and then an influx of Stupid Valley outsourcing (Apple and Intel) back in the 90s.
But it can be done, and the price differential will make you a worldbeater.