Does startup location matter as much anymore?<p>For years yc has touted that it was critical to be located in silicon valley but things seem to be changing.<p>Still the biggest tech companies seem to be located in the U.S.A and more specifically the valley, will that change in the next 10 years?
If you are doing a "startup", there are benefits to being near SV for the VCs and talent who want that life. If you are just wanting to start aomething new and not seeking the YC/VC model, choose whichever town makes you happy.<p>What I expect to change over the next 10 years is an increasing number of people making the latter choice.
For me, India is one of the best place as it has a HUGE online population, growing spending capacity, quite a large number of huge problems to be solved (for e.g. there isn’t even good Adult ADD care available in India in 2020, many many more probs) and a good number of decent tech workers (rising number of great tech workers).<p>Pardon awkward brevity, using mobile.
IMO as an individual the best is to either go to SV or stay home.<p>By moving to some other location you get all the downsides of migrating, few upsides of the best location and no upsides of staying home.
<i>“(…) will that change in the next 10 years?”</i><p>As someone living in Europe, I hope so! But I wouldn’t bet on it. Silicon Valley/USA is way ahead of us when it comes to tech/startups.