> It buys you into the echo chamber. Unless your customers are in the startup world, this probably doesn't matter for your business.
It buys you mass, global media. Its pretty much why AirBnB is anywhere close to as recognizable as VRBO, which has been around and profitable in the same space far longer.
> Pick a business category that isn't technology or software. Very likely all of the most recent successes in that category were founded outside of silicon valley.
Unless you broaden "technology and software" as a "business category" so broadly as to be meaningless (e.g., to include every business that uses technology or software, no matter what it it actually selling), that's rather dubious.
It buys you mass, global media. Its pretty much why AirBnB is anywhere close to as recognizable as VRBO, which has been around and profitable in the same space far longer.
> Pick a business category that isn't technology or software. Very likely all of the most recent successes in that category were founded outside of silicon valley.
Unless you broaden "technology and software" as a "business category" so broadly as to be meaningless (e.g., to include every business that uses technology or software, no matter what it it actually selling), that's rather dubious.