Comments on: Link love and the cult of personality http://blog.socaltech.com/2007/10/16/link-love-and-the-cult-of-personality/ Thoughts on Southern California's high tech and venture capital industry Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:19:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Benjamin Kuo http://blog.socaltech.com/2007/10/16/link-love-and-the-cult-of-personality/#comment-367 Benjamin Kuo Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:45:09 +0000 http://blog.socaltech.com/2007/10/16/link-love-and-the-cult-of-personality/#comment-367 Quite true! Quite true!

]]> By: ocvc http://blog.socaltech.com/2007/10/16/link-love-and-the-cult-of-personality/#comment-366 ocvc Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:13:17 +0000 http://blog.socaltech.com/2007/10/16/link-love-and-the-cult-of-personality/#comment-366 Ben, One of the fundamental differences between Silicon Valley and the L.A. are is that Silicon Valley has "tech celebrities" and those that aspire to be one..whereas we have "real celebrities" and those that aspire to be one here. When I moved back to SoCal from Silicon Valley in '03, one of the jokes I liked to tell my friends in NorCal in describing the L.A. area was that while everyone in Silicon Valley seemingly walks around with a business plan in his or her back pocket they walk around with a script down here ;-) Marc Ben,

One of the fundamental differences between Silicon Valley and the L.A. are is that Silicon Valley has “tech celebrities” and those that aspire to be one..whereas we have “real celebrities” and those that aspire to be one here. When I moved back to SoCal from Silicon Valley in ‘03, one of the jokes I liked to tell my friends in NorCal in describing the L.A. area was that while everyone in Silicon Valley seemingly walks around with a business plan in his or her back pocket they walk around with a script down here ;-)

Marc

]]> By: Benjamin Kuo’s Blog » Blog Archive » Comments no longer broken http://blog.socaltech.com/2007/10/16/link-love-and-the-cult-of-personality/#comment-365 Benjamin Kuo’s Blog » Blog Archive » Comments no longer broken Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:46:42 +0000 http://blog.socaltech.com/2007/10/16/link-love-and-the-cult-of-personality/#comment-365 [...] wondering why you haven’t been able to view comments, that’s why. (And this is after talking about the importance on linking between So-Cal [...] [...] wondering why you haven’t been able to view comments, that’s why. (And this is after talking about the importance on linking between So-Cal [...]

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