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To: bentway who wrote (929270)	4/5/2016 8:43:59 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1577920

A startup making silicon is a rare thing these days. So Silicon Valley has evolved. It is still a hotbed for angel investors. There was a segment on the local PBS radio station about that a year or so ago. It was all about the difficulties in basing a startup here because the local investors just don't understand how the game works for tech. They are used to investing large amounts of money in just a few, like 3 or 4, companies a year. Many of the Silicon Valley investors do that many a week, with much smaller amounts of money. So what if most of those fail? You don't need many winners to come out ahead. And that is what the locals don't understand.