A few years ago I sold all my stuff to explore the world, creating 12 startups in 12 months and building $1M+/y in companies as an indie maker such as Nomad List and Remote OK. I'm also a big pusher of remote work and try to analyze the effects it will have on society. Follow me on Twitter or see my list of posts. My first book MAKE is out now.
Oct 27, 2014

The ideal place to start a startup is not necessarily in Silicon Valley

Entrepreneurship, Future, Remote working, Tech, Travel

You do not necessarily need to start in [Silicon Valley] to become successful, especially if your situation there imposes additional hurdles to success. Living out of a car or tenement is generally detrimental to one’s ability to focus on the business.

It’s always amazing to me that as tech entrepreneurs we largely sell to others the idea that technology enables us to do anything from anywhere, but simultaneously believe that there is exactly one place on earth where we must physically be to get anything done. The ideal place to start a startup is anywhere that your day-to-day life issues can take a backseat to working on your startup.

— downandout on Hacker News

P.S. I wrote a book on building indie startups called MAKE. And I'm on Twitter too if you'd like to follow more of my stories. I don't use email so tweet me your questions. Or you can see my list of posts. To get an alert when I write a new blog post, you can subscribe below:

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