[maddening]

I'd like to see a essay about starting a business outside the SV. Maybe even outside a startup hippie communities in general.

* no investors interested in pre-seed phase - they all say that you should call them when you are already profitable

* nobody interested in being cofounder - cold cash only

* clients saying that they like your MVP - but you unknown, so they won't buy the product anyway

I don't mean that in SV things are magically happening on its own, but sometimes I have an impression that anywhere else you have to be twice as bold and twice as careful to get 1/10th of a result... Yet they are written in a way that suggest that you can easily reproduce SV results everywhere.

[mattferderer]

Check out the MicroConf community - https://www.microconf.com/

Read the The E-Myth Revisited (80's classic)

Check out MIT's Bill Aulet's Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup & accompanying workbook.

[nojvek]

If you think about it from the first principles and ignore the location, it’s a fact that a business can be launched anywhere. We are in a global economy and most software runs in the cloud. Companies like Stripe will let you bill from the cloud. So technically running a SaaS company from anywhere should be possible.

That being said, any great company is a product of vision * team * execution * luck.

SV and to a larger degree US provides the huge networking effects of talent, funding and a big market.

That being said, it still warms my heart to see successful startups from other countries do well.