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coldcode
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Why Silicon Valley Works
SV is like the 1849 California gold rush. A few people got rich and everyone else just got dirty.
ThomPete
on Nov 3, 2014
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Which why the clever entrepreneur sell tools for the gold-diggers.
freshflowers
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This explains so many start-ups. Especially the ones with .io domains.
j_lev
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One of the Lectures encouraged new startups to come up with something that other startups would find useful. Indeed, it seems like a good 60-70% of startups fall into this "startup tools" category.
danudey
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I compare it to the Klondike gold rush: most of the people who got rich did so by taking money from suckers.
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