Start-Up Scene Quotes

You see 6,000 times more tech companies in San Francisco than you see in Seattle. All the money is in San Francisco when you look at the venture fund maps. The PR is in San Francisco. The centricity of the industry is in San Francisco.

'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.

The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!

I would still rather be in Silicon Alley. I like the West Coast also, but it's sort of fragmented. You have companies in downtown San Francisco, companies in Mountain View, and people are driving between them all. It's kind of nice in New York to just jump in a cab and reach another company so easily.

San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be.

Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting.

Just the number of people - 'Silicon Valley''s a relatively small, core cast, whereas 'The Office' was enormous. Also, I feel more of a sense of ownership of 'Silicon Valley' because I've been there from the get-go.

The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.

And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.

I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.

Seattle was hardly a tech magnet before Amazon, Microsoft, and then a host of once-fledgling technology firms set up operations there.

I spend a lot of time in the Valley. I'm probably down there every other week or so.

New York is the new Silicon Valley.

Boston is known for its innovation.

I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.

Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.

The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second.

We don't believe start-ups are the private preserve of only garage start-ups... The corporate garage is going to be the scene of a lot of action.

Silicon Valley is super competitive and super expensive for talent, for office space, for everything.

I am committed to ensuring San Francisco remains a center for tech and the innovation capital of the world.

L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood. Now Hollywood is realizing it needs to be smarter in tech. Hollywood is finally crossing over, and it's really going to charge L.A. to be the next tech center.

I always want to have San Francisco as my home and my base. I'm a business reporter - that's what I do and what I enjoy - and I don't know another place on the planet that would be as fascinating to cover.