{"id":5617,"date":"2015-08-06T19:48:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T23:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=5617"},"modified":"2015-08-06T21:55:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T01:55:50","slug":"caroline-smith-dan-primack-and-me-larry-chiang-share-opinions-on-building-the-next-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/caroline-smith-dan-primack-and-me-larry-chiang-share-opinions-on-building-the-next-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Smith, Dan Primack and Me, Larry Chiang, Share Opinions on Building the Next Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Andreessen Horowitz,\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #000000;\"><a style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a16z\">a16z<\/a>, has a podcast about developing the next Silicon Valley.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/529785715710648322\/CTEE6FLl_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Caroline Smith (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carolinetanbee?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@carolinetanbee<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carolinetanbee\/status\/628969990432129025?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">8\/5\/15, 9:45 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>On creating innovation ecosystems in cities: &#8220;[Institutions should] participate in the network rather than try to control it.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a16z\">@a16z<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bfeld\">@bfeld<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/980037366\/danprimack_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Dan Primack (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danprimack?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@danprimack<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danprimack\/status\/628666950898597888?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">8\/4\/15, 1:40 PM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Why do so many-government led efforts to build the next \u201cSilicon Valley\u201d in one geography or another fail?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P3HEknUaDL\">a16z.com\/2015\/08\/04\/a16\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/558312221172699136\/S-IbmB9q_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Rick Turoczy (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/turoczy?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@turoczy<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/turoczy\/status\/628705367787081728?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">8\/4\/15, 4:13 PM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">&#8220;The notion of trying to create the next Silicon Valley is completely the wrong question\u2026 for lots of reasons&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bfeld\">@bfeld<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zy9VbhHN1k\">a16z.com\/2015\/08\/04\/a16\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Here are some things cities can do:<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; They can build or buy a franchise like #SXSW<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; they can recruit TED to leave Long Beach CA and have it move to Vancouver.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; they can host a music festival like AUSTIN City Limits<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;sns=em\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/629435726367559680?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">8\/6\/15, 4:35 PM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a16z\">@a16z<\/a>, but for your lobby library so I can borrow it for 45 min of Rosewood pool, speed reading!?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y47Yrw7HvM\">amazon.com\/Boulevard-Brok\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"7E725F84-C72D-4254-B214-0D60707E0817\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image17.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Engr 145<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eudADPfTWiE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Engineering 145.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;sns=em\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang \u00a0 Andreessen Horowitz,\u00a0a16z, has a podcast about developing the next Silicon Valley.\u00a0 Caroline Smith (@carolinetanbee) 8\/5\/15, 9:45 AM On creating innovation ecosystems in cities: &#8220;[Institutions should] participate in the network rather than try to control it.&#8221; @a16z @bfeld Dan Primack (@danprimack) 8\/4\/15, 1:40 PM Why do so many-government led efforts to build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking-with-venture-capitalists"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}