I’m starting to get the feeling that Silicon Valley is Hollywood for entrepreneurs – that there should be a bare hill with a giant floodlit SILICON VALLEY sign enticing would be entrepreneurs.
It seems everyone here has a business plan they are raising capital for – that this process is a rite of passage, which includes the ‘google’ eyed just-landed immigrant (that includes anyone from the East coast), to the surfie waitress at the local cafe. The language seemingly just rolls off the cuff; ‘this is just a fill in job whilst I’m seeking some seed capital for the cloud-based start-up I’m launching’ - or - ‘we hope to have our Series A closed by the end of September for $2 million and then I’ll quit and go full-time’ – or - ‘I’m just in the Valley for a week to court some of the Sand Hill Road VCs for when we do a raise next year.‘ It’s the Hollywood equivalent of the big break. Yet if Los Angeles is the city of broken dreams for actors, then are the collective Sans of Frisco and Jose the valleys of unrealised tech hopes?
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