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What made Silicon Valley into the successful startup hub of today? It was the forced high density of people with extremely high levels of skepticism and IQ by Frederick Terman. To build anything fundamentally new, you need to questions things that other people think they know and then see patterns where they don't. Most of the times you'll come up with answers that are the same as those of others and be right. Very few of the times you'll come up with answers that are different from those of others and be right. But the problem is that only a few of these are good business ideas. Because of this, you need people that habitually question things are then good at finding patterns. And this exercise does not stop after the idea. A startup is just a sequence of things that have not been done before. So you need people to continue this exercise when they start working on the startup. A startup will not succeed if it cannot succeed at all the steps in the sequence, all of which requir

Silicon Valley Home Silicon Valley What made Silicon Valley into the successful startup hub of today? It was the forced high density of people with extremely high levels of skepticism and IQ by Frederick Terman. To build anything fundamentally new, you need to questions things that other people think they know and then see patterns where they don't. Most of the times you'll come up with answers that are the same as those of others and be right. Very few of the times you'll come up with answers that are different from those of others and be right. But the problem is that only a few of these are

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