Sound advice! Interesting culturally... I lived in the Bay Area for a short while and the number of, as you say, ‘scenesters’ was easily 40x what I left behind in Texas and ultimately what drove me back to an exciting place where everyone who is serious enough to have even discovered the startup space was seriously interested in building viable business quickly. It has diluted a bit here in the last 4 years and I attribute these effects to the late majority side of an adoption bell curve where ultimately local saturation of startup entrepreneurship is a great thing even at the expense of additional noise.
Sound advice! Interesting culturally... I lived in the Bay Area for a short while and the number of, as you say, ‘scenesters’ was easily 40x what I left behind in Texas and ultimately what drove me back to an exciting place where everyone who is serious enough to have even discovered the startup space was seriously interested in building viable business quickly.
It has diluted a bit here in the last 4 years and I attribute these effects to the late majority side of an adoption bell curve where ultimately local saturation of startup entrepreneurship is a great thing even at the expense of additional noise.