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.
There's no better place in the world for technology start-ups than Silicon Valley; there's such an incredible well of talent and capital and resources. The whole system is set up to foster the creation of new companies.
St. Louis is a customer- and partner-rich environment for any financial tech startup.
'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.
There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco.
Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful.
I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me.
How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it's a good place to die?
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, America's B-movie imitation of Paris. San Francisco, the city that ruined punk rock. San Francisco, the most intolerant place in the country.
ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
To a traveler paying his first visit, [San Francisco] has the interest of a new planet. It ignores the meteorological laws which govern the rest of the world.
Anne Arundel County has become the world's epicenter of military intelligence and defense-related information technology.
San Francisco! City of dreaming spires, people live here... Golden Gate Bridge, ahh the Romans came here.
I'm from the Bay Area.
But oh, San Francisco! It is and has everything - you wouldn't think that such a place as San Francisco could exist.
In India, we have the global services HQ, R&D centres, global network operating centres, global manufacturing, and product management - India is not just a market but a country we use for extended NSN.
San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world...I would probably rank it at the top or near the top. It's small but photogenic and has layers...You never have problems finding great angles that people have never done.
Of course the Silicon Valley is unique and Berlin is not yet comparable. But of all the different cities that are building a startup infrastructure, Berlin is the one with the most similar energy.
In 2016, you no longer have to be in Silicon Valley to launch a successful startup. Colorado is home to many.
San Francisco is a great startup community that you shouldn't even try to model yourself after because it's just special.
California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else.
I was born and raised in the Bay Area. It's the place I got a deep, deep affection for.
Seattle was hardly a tech magnet before Amazon, Microsoft, and then a host of once-fledgling technology firms set up operations there.
Those in technology who can afford to stay in Silicon Valley all know it as one of the most beautiful places to live in the world, but a wariness has sunk in as folks from other walks of life are forced to leave: coffee shops are wall-to-wall with aspiring entrepreneurs, and restaurants buzz with talk of valuations and venture capital.
