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There Is Only ONE Silicon Valley

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Silicon Valley is a very special place – the nucleus of high-growth, high technology entrepreneurship in the US, indeed, in the world. The Valley produces world-class entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists and successful high-tech companies – all growing and creating jobs on one relatively small peninsula.

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Top 5 Tips To Successfully Recruit Creative Talent

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For example, it’s not unusual for tech talent in Silicon Valley to move from job to job fairly quickly, so don’t automatically hold job-hopping against those candidates. Austin has a relatively small tech community, so reputation is a stronger factor there than it would be in a huge market like New York City.

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What are the advantages of stationing your startup in New York City opposed to Silicon Valley / SF?

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A much more tightly knit startup community, compared to the larger but more diffuse West Coast community. A city that from the Mayor on down is devoted to helping the tech startup community expand exponentially. The world’s fastest growing tech startup ecosystem.

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Bravo's Silicon Valley: The Painful Truth Behind A Caricature Of Excess

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But in early November, cable channel Bravo will debut a new reality program titled “ Silicon Valley ” that will chronicle the lives and struggles of startup entrepreneurs in San Francisco. Bravo's trailer for the show hit the Web earlier this week and response from the entrepreneurial community and blogs has been predictable.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally.

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Bravo's Silicon Valley: The Painful Truth Behind A Caricature Of Excess

ReadWriteStart

But in early November, cable channel Bravo will debut a new reality program titled “ Silicon Valley ” that will chronicle the lives and struggles of startup entrepreneurs in San Francisco. Bravo's trailer for the show hit the Web earlier this week and response from the entrepreneurial community and blogs has been predictable.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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We threw a Launchpad LA dinner to bring the community together as we tend to do 6-10 times a year. Somebody asked the question, “What do you think about the term ‘Silicon Beach? I hate Silicon Whatever. If anything using the word “Silicon” seems a bit derivative to NorCal. LA should be LA.”

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