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For Many New Ventures, Location Is The Key To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world.

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When Planning A Startup, A Top Priority Is Location

Startup Professionals Musings

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world.

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4 Key Questions To Identify Your Ideal Startup Site

Startup Professionals Musings

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen.

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Startup Location Is Still A Critical Success Factor

Startup Professionals Musings

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen.

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How To Find The Best City For Your Type Of Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

We were on an immersion trip to Silicon Valley, and we said, “Let’s find a way to leverage [a previous open source project],” and we decided to build something around that. Our class was at least a third finance and a third consultants. Tom Eisenmann. It really did start as an entry in the New Venture Competition.

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ProfessorVC: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. While Silicon Valley covers a large amount of turf, it is very small. are going to add this story to our blog via our IT guy at [link] we have a audience in las vegas that will read your article. ProfessorVC. Thursday, November 19, 2009. Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?