In addition to the SFBA getting less attractive, I think that some products (ironically many coming out of there) have helped geographically distribute access to the advantages people used to move to get.https://twitter.com/sama/status/1096822724217827328 …
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I know this does not sound like a real thing but I promise you this was a real thing: you used to have to talk to an actual person, frequently in the flesh, to get servers.
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Ditto payment processing, rack space, startup-compatible professional services, placement agreements for ads, etc.
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Some of the expertise requirements for operating things are now encoded in the services you will naturally use for them. Some are widely distributed in on the Internet. Some are in the same brains they have always been in, but those brains left the SFBA.
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I feel I have to give a shout-out to Giles Bowkett, who asked “What if venture capital, by investing in technology, is making it easier to run companies without venture capital? What if venture capital’s legacy will be that it disrupted itself?” He was not wrong.
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The biggest levers for low cost startups have been Moore's law, open source, and AWS: little to no venture capital there! IMHO NSF has done more for low cost startups than all of VC
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