Five Reasons to Move Your Start-Up Out of Silicon Valley

All tech start-ups need just a few ingredients to germinate: sophisticated money, first-rate technology universities, and a few template successes (a Google or a Facebook, and so on) to encourage founders to get off their duffs. Contrary to current wisdom, these ingredients exist in many communities outside of Silicon Valley–in fact, they always have.

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    Stockyards of Chicago, Wall Street, Silicon Valley. It takes a long time for these paradigm shifts to burn themselves out. But maybe the deinstitutionalization of journalism will eventually mean that you don’t have to be located where all the tech journalism takes place in order to run a tech company. For now though, that’s pretty much how it is.

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