Defrag Blog

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’m SOOOOOO glad that Brian Oberkirch is coming to talk at Defrag. And you will be too (when you come and see him).

Today, Brian’s posting about how the idea that location matters in a startup is, as Dick Costolo, puts it “rubbish.”

Amen.

My favorite quote from Brian’s piece: “To Dick’s point, the Valley tends to dramatically overestimate its impact and importance on the development of the Web. When the simulacra says ‘everything is here’, you’re not motivated to look elsewhere. For this reason, I think a nomadic strategy (see Ben Cerveny, danah boyd) is warranted.”

And in case you need more proof, just check out what’s going on at Defrag (in Denver) — where we’ll have a whole bunch of startups that are NOT valley or bay area based (Dapper is in Israel, for instance), and even more people who have made their lives on non-valley-based startups (ask Esther about how many of her investments aren’t even in the U.S.).

It really is time for us to more evenly distribute this thing we call “the tech community.” And I, for one, can’t wait to have a tech conference that’s NOT in San Francisco, San Jose, or Santa Clara.

Maybe, you should join us.