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Startups Should Build Cities. - by zach.dev

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Coming 2022.

"Success is discovered by the economic system through a blanketing shotgun process, not by the individual through a converging search. – Armen Alchien Ten years ago I coined the term "Startup Cities" to describe neighborhoods and cities built by startup companies. At the time, Paul Romer's "Charter Cities" (and ill-fated adventures in Madagascar and Honduras) were all the rage. I, too, was taken by these ideas. I had just spent a summer in Kenya embedded with the Kenya National Alliance of Street Vendors and Informal Traders. I returned enthralled with the dynamism of developing world…

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