“It is startup season in Silicon Valley. Fundings are going through the roof. New companies are getting started every day and well, people are packing their bags and moving to Silicon Valley. Even guys at CNN are talking about startups. Scary! However, there are two pieces that everyone (including buddy entrepreneurs) should read — Andrew Chen’s How sheep-like behavior breeds innovation in Silicon Valley and Chris Dixon’s The problem with investing based on pattern recognition. The lesson of these two pieces: try and be original. It works!” [via ]
2 thoughts on “Startup Founders: Read This”
Comments are closed.
try will always be better than do nothing
I think VC’s and other investors are missing the real hidden gems in other places like Boston, New York, Halifax (Canada), Ottawa (Canada), Duluth and other places…locations with innovative ideas that could be far bigger an opportunity for less cash, more equity and a better upside. Now that kind of investor thinking would be innovative…