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Aug 6, 2011 / 1:41pm

Nurture the Difference Between New York and Silicon Valley

To be in Silicon Valley is to be completely immersed in technology. The building, the pushing, the hacking, the designing, the iterating, the testing, the acquisitions, the funding — it is everywhere and wholly inescapable. Here is a culture and place that emerged seemingly from nothing, and yet over the last 50 years it has developed a mythology deep and inspiring and all its own.
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Craig Mod of Flipboard explains why he chose Silicon Valley over New York.

Filed under: New York   silicon valley   startups  
Jun 26, 2010 / 12:56am

Just Do It: Move to Silicon Valley

That idea that you've been kicking around in your head for months, gets questioned and scrutinized in a way that pushes you forward faster than you ever thought possible. That person that you chatted with randomly at the coffee shop, at a meet-up, or at a friend's house, gives you the exact solution you need to a problem you've been banging your head against for a day or two.

Or better yet, your roommate turns out to be a hacker who moved down here to do a startup and you end up being co-founders (true story, by the way).

A man who moved from Toronto to Silicon Valley to work on a startup shares his story. Inspiring.

Filed under: silicon valley   startups