In the past month I’ve traveled to Berlin, Amsterdam, London and Hawaii and I keep hearing the same debate over and over again: ‘How can we become the next Silicon Valley?’
The answer is: You Can’t.
Having observed the special sauce that makes up Silicon Valley, I’ve found it’s a delicate balance of a number of attributes that cannot easily be replicated. That doesn’t mean to say other places in the world should stop investing in startup culture or entrepreneurship; I believe one day other tech cities in the world could be bigger than Silicon Valley in terms of output of high growth technology startups, because other places have attributes and industries that the Valley does not. But, for now, Silicon Valley is number one and it will stay that way for the foreseeable future.
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