{"id":202,"date":"2016-08-05T11:39:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T18:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/?p=202"},"modified":"2016-08-05T11:39:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T18:39:02","slug":"why-seattle-startups-have-an-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Why Seattle startups have an advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2016\/microsoft-ma-exec-bob-kelly-heres-the-dirty-secret-about-silicon-valley-and-why-seattle-startups-have-an-advantage\">comments <\/a>from Microsoft M&amp;A Exec Bob Kelly at the last Mile9 cohort graduation event: &#8220;Here\u2019s the \u2018dirty secret\u2019 about Silicon Valley, and why Seattle startups have an advantage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Kelly arguments that Silicon Valley startups typically gain early sales momentum because they sell to other startup or mid-tier companies in the Valley.<br \/>\nBut in Seattle \u2014 which lacks that sort of dynamic startup ecosystem and robust buying and selling environment \u2014startups need to find real customers who fork out cash because the technology solves a real problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is a huge asset. It may not feel like the bootstrapping mechanism you get in the Valley,\u201d said Kelly. \u201cBut, boy, I\u2019ll tell you what, you get a different kind of company coming out of Seattle. And that is a really, really powerful platform to build from.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pullquote\">\u00a0You get a different kind of company coming out of Seattle.<\/aside>\n<p>The flip side of that is that the Valley tends to create companies forged with entrepreneurs who have \u201ca bit more of the killer instinct,\u201d while \u201cSeattle is just so nice,\u201d said Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>Nice and better founded? maybe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice comments from Microsoft M&amp;A Exec Bob Kelly at the last Mile9 cohort graduation event: &#8220;Here\u2019s the \u2018dirty secret\u2019 about Silicon Valley, and why Seattle startups have an advantage&#8221;. Bob Kelly arguments that Silicon Valley startups typically gain early sales momentum because they sell to other startup or mid-tier companies in the Valley. But in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/?p=202\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,39],"tags":[40,24,25],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-landing","category-seattle","tag-kelly","tag-seattle","tag-startups","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}