Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Why Los Angeles Will Outpace Silicon Valley As The Tech Startup Capital

Courtesy: Tara Tiger Brown, Forbes.com

When I moved to Los Angeles in 2008 from San Francisco, I wasn’t very excited about the move because I’m a technologist and moving away from the tech hub of the world to the land of Botox seemed like a really bad career move. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous, attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.

My husband coerced me into moving to SoCal because he would rather get a tattoo of Tinkerbell than rent an over-priced faux-loft in San Francisco. He asserted that the Web 2.0 or tech startup people do the same thing day after day, go to the same bars, the same coffee shops and work on products that aren’t discernible from a pet rock, and are geared toward the same 100 bot followed Twitter celebrities that are stuck together with gorilla glue on a postage stamp. ...read more here:  Why Los Angeles Will Outpace Silicon Valley As The Tech Startup Capital - Forbes