Entrepreneurs Corner: I'm Not The Only One Who Thinks The Valley is Dead

Hype over Silicon Valley is dying down and the Social Curtain is beginning to open up.

When I accidentally moved to NYC earlier this year, I was a renegade, a soldier running back to enemy lines for a cup of water – a suicidal start-up founder. For the last two years I have been asking myself where the real sustenance was in the mystical Silicon Valley. Tech event after tech event, same faces, same VCs, same ideas getting funded over and over. Where does the pitching stop and the real business start?

Its easy to think that one needs to dig deeper but that is what I believe kills many start-ups who come west to “pursue the dream.”

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