The Real Silicon Valley(takeaswig.com) |
The Real Silicon Valley(takeaswig.com) |
While this is true, you are missing the point of the valley. It's a place where like minded people accumulate. People who think they can change the world by creating the next big think. All these people could all be delusional and totally wrong for all we know, but the point is they all think that way.
It's like a party. Can you just jack up the radio and dance away in the solitude of your room? Sure, you can. But it's better to go to a real discotheque and dance away with others. The chances you meet someone interesting are higher, the chances that your amazing disco steps get noticed are higher etc etc.
Continuing the stupid analogy, in the valley there are these page 3 reporters (techcrunch, cough) reporting all sorts of things. These things make you famous and get you $$. See, how things are different when you are hacking away in your room in cape town? Want more developers? There are tons of people who will code for you. "Passionately". It's all in one place!
Do not underestimate the "energy" of the valley. Having like minded people in one place makes all the difference (just like anything else).
Out of curiosity, I clicked the "SVBTLE" link at the bottom of this one:
Svbtle is an invite-only network of people who strive to
produce great content.
Ah ha! Granted, this could only speak to the intersection of this website's users' interests and those blogs' topics.I have found it is similar to trying to explain what being in love is like to someone who has never been in love. You can say "There is this other person who you would walk on glass, barefoot, to get to and help." And they say "What? You don't have time to put on a pair of shoes? Seriously, how much longer could that take?" Not having experienced the emotion they can't imagine how much of your 'self' you are willing to put aside without question.
So your midwest relatives just end up thinking you are 'weird' and you have to be ok with that.
So I speculate that that is where a bunch of the angst comes from, people in the startup community would love to be understood by people outside the startup community but can't communicate that difference. So they are sad that Bravo tried and missed completely. But as you said, it wasn't Bravo's goal.
Source: http://www.bravotv.com/shows
As a sitcom, the show is pure genious. Especially the last 10 minutes of the second episode, in which the blonde ditz is on a "date" with some nerdy model....