Hacker News Reader

I disagree. You're not appreciating the values of serendipity, creativity, and culture that you gain from living in an exciting and dense place like NYC.

While seemingly intangible, I believe that these qualities lead to more exciting and innovative ideas in the long run. And NYC's dense and supportive startup community makes it more likely that people will connect over these ideas and form teams that would never have met each other otherwise.

View on HN

Actually, I don't believe I said _not_ to move at all. I said don't move until you're prepared. I'm giving this warning because many founders that I've spoken to only talk about the dream--then they move, and they find out it's not all that peachy.

Cities like NYC and SF have tremendous cultural value and produce awesome products and have tons of talented people. The whole idea of moving is to attract the best and brightest to your team.

Move when you're ready. The city pace moves fast, and so will your project too. If you move about a plan, prototype, or direction, you'll find the difficulty of whatever it is you're trying to accomplish compounded.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com