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Saw this in Boris Mann's FriendFeed (via his Google Reader bookmarks). Comment on Jason Mendelson of Foundry Group (which "funds primarily light-weight, inexpensive software startups") giving a talk in Ann Arbor. The push-back in the comment interesting insofar as it points to 2.0-bubble-ism and over-eagerness to build on clouds as opposed to "real things." But then again, one could ask, what are the real things? Isn't information real, too?

Tags: boulder, ann_arbor, entrepeneurialism, web2.0, economic_development, jason_mendelson on 2009-04-18 -All Annotations (0) -About

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I watched this video a couple of days ago (via PSFK's Twitter feed), and loved the emphases brought to light by the interviews.

- Entrepreneurs liked the density of the city -- the ability to encounter colleagues by chance, run into folks, rub shoulders;
- Some talked about liking the "small" aspects of San Francisco: that there isn't *so* much going on to distract one's attention from the tasks (work) at hand

I thought that latter point was kind of intriguing, something to remember when someone once again goes off on how it's such a bad thing that *this* isn't as happening a place as NYC or <snort> Toronto.

Tags: entrepeneurialism, psfk, cities, san_francisco, socialnetworks on 2008-08-05 -All Annotations (0) -About

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