Interesting to observe the micro-cultures of the valley,
almost as diverse as the microclimates. I have spent last couple of weeks
getting involved with the Telecom community, centered down south in San Jose.
They talk about semiconductors and Moores law - actual substance for the real
world. But slow-moving.
The urban hipster haven of SoMa feels worlds apart from San Jose. SoMa talk is Insta and Snap. Lightweight,
viral entertainment. And counter-intuitive to the microclimate – hot and sunny
San Jose dress code is suit, while cold and foggy city wear is surfer shorts.
And then there is us in the middle. We are somewhere on the
Peninsula – San Mateo, Palo Alto, Mountain View. We do software and internet and cloud stuff.
We dismiss city as fluff and shrug at San Jose as boring hardware.
City is not all fluff of course, and hardware is far from
dead or boring. So many new exciting device+service products launched this
year, and innovations of Arduino and RasPi making creative process so much more
dynamic and accessible. But Telco world keep pitching dead-on-arrival technologies like NFC for
mobile payments. As our Lean Startup mentors teach, they need to learn how to fail faster...
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