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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. I talked to one startup CEO who told me, “you have young engineers who want to make $200,000 or more to work for me. eBay and others. You just don’t. Get over it.