"If your idea for a web business is more along the lines of the mundane "product * price = profit" (3P) variety, I think the culture of San Francisco and that famous 20-mile radius around Stanford is anything but helpful. I might even go as far as say it's downright harmful.

The flush availability of other people's money is simply too tempting. When you're not spending your own money, it's easy to splash on a big open office on day one, a staff of 10+ in no time, and have few worries about paying the bills on the 1st of the month. It takes away much of the urgency to make money that I think is critical to build sustainable businesses. It gives you too many resources to be satisfied building simple tools for niche markets. Everything becomes about catching that huge wave."

--David, Signal vs, Noise, writing about start up stuff, like where to locate your endeavor

It's great to have this bright and shiny and clean new site, thanks to my friends Chad Capellman, Erik Bator and Mike Isman, who made this so painless--and did it so quickly--including moving almost 5,0000 posts-plus comments, over.

The RSS feed is the same, the updating will (hopefully) be more frequent, and now I get to (finally) add categories,  It was a great run on blogspot, and I'll maintain the older site, but this is the cutover to the new.

And oh, the Technorati claim...<a href="http://technorati.com/claim/gv7zm3i8kn" rel="me">Technorati Profile</a>