Yes You can build a tech startup in Kentucky
July 10, 2009
VC’s Fred Wilson and Matt McCall both have posts up about the fact that you can indeed build a tech startup outside of Silicon Valley. As Fred aptly puts it “… the idea that you cannot build an important tech company outside of Silicon Valley is ‘a crock of shit’.
I also hear this from many people within Kentucky, often from entrepreneurs looking for funding. The fact is Kentucky has advantages over places like silicon valley such as the cost of talent and other costs of doing business. If you cant raise funding here than bootstrap it etc. I would also add to Fred’s list a Lexington success, Exstream Software, Dan Kloiber and Davis Marksbury built that startup into a billion dollar company building software in Kentucky.
The lesson is pick where you want to live and work and then build your business, the rest is just a crock.
