I'd like to see a essay about starting a business outside the SV. Maybe even outside a startup hippie communities in general.

* no investors interested in pre-seed phase - they all say that you should call them when you are already profitable

* nobody interested in being cofounder - cold cash only

* clients saying that they like your MVP - but you unknown, so they won't buy the product anyway

I don't mean that in SV things are magically happening on its own, but sometimes I have an impression that anywhere else you have to be twice as bold and twice as careful to get 1/10th of a result... Yet they are written in a way that suggest that you can easily reproduce SV results everywhere.