Where's the next Hollywood? This question has always been absurd to me. Silicon Valley is here to stay.
Georgia, it would seem. If being in New York isn't the key point of the show, chances are it is filmed in Georgia nowadays.
The expensive parts have moved elsewhere (principal photography and special effects) because it’s easy to transmit data, but all the stuff that comes before and after still happens in Hollywood for the most part.
So you'll concede that a strong cost play exists to move away, and are basically betting that inertia maintains the status quo?
Good luck. ;)
With 2Gbps fibre connections there is no reason to think that places are required to be geographically in the same area.
Companies don't seem to find it very hard to move filming locations based on what state is offering them the most money.
Craiglist has unbelievable traction, just as Silicon Valley.
If you want to be the next Silicon Valley or even 1/10th of its quality, it requires at least 20 years of work.
When it comes to actual innovation I have yet to find anything comes close to the level Cambridge/Boston is on, especially in life sciences & AI. If only it weren't for the frigid winters...
https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2017/10/bos...
The rule of thumb I've seen is that technologies are invented in Boston and commercialized out West (either in SV or Seattle). Microsoft, Facebook, Reddit, YCombinator, and DropBox are all Boston startups...but you wouldn't know it unless you're intimately familiar with their histories.
This has a lot to do with the business cultures of the respective places. When I was working in Boston, the message I got was "Work hard for 30 years, build up expertise, and then maybe you can get a VC to fund your startup - but only if it's in an industry where you know who your customers are and how to make money!" And then Google came calling and was like "Wanna help us redesign the search results page?", and I saw many of my colleagues leave and successfully found startups, and folks here are like "Got an idea? Just go quit and start working on it, and if it turns out to be worth anything funding will be available."
I'd say that Boston understands technology better than Silicon Valley, but aren't very savvy about how to apply it for maximum impact. In Boston, people really really want to be smart, and thorough, and innovative, and fully explore all the implications of what they're doing before they bring it to market. In Silicon Valley, people are like "You know a tiny bit more about something than somebody somewhere else? Great, bring it to market, listen to feedback, and then go hire some smart MIT grads to work out the details."
The market seems to reward the latter approach much better. Silicon Valley's internalized the counterintuitive market maxim of "It's better to be differentiated than good", while Boston is still hung up on being good.
It seems like Boston has a few good unis, which SV also has. So, the number of good ideas that come out of it are maybe equal, but all of the rest (which is 95%) that comes after, is 100x better in SV, no?
That said, while California does have a lot more VC funding, New York and Massachusetts and #2 and #3 even though Boston/Cambridge in particular tend to not be mentioned in these kind of discussions.
https://ssti.org/blog/useful-stats-venture-capital-dollars-a...
That said tho, the cambridge intellectual bubble is real and has its advantages