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[christian AT stalberg.net]

I can attest to the fact, based upon personal experience having
started and run an Internet business here for the last 4 years,
that this is a very dismal place for start-ups and entrepreneurs. 
This article is gratifying for me as it validates some of my own
experiences here. I lived and worked in Silicon Valley in California
once so I have a means of comparison with this place.

- Christian


At 04:16 PM 10/13/99 -0400, you wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Michael D. Thomas wrote:
>> I'll click it off with a recent article in Upside that blasts the
>> triangle for not being friendly to entrepreneurs.
>> 
>> http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/opinion/story?id=3802308c0
>
>What's funny about the article is that it /doesn't/ blast the Triangle,
>just RTP. But the impression given is that RTP (the region) is the same
>as RTP (the park). Note that it says that:
>
> "To get to the real action, you have to go outside of
>  the park, to the various pockets of small technology companies
>  scattered about the outskirts of the three small cities."
>
>There's some other stuff in the article that is badly misleading, like
>Goodnight saying that SAS will never go public (what's the latest on
>this, anyway? I thought they were preparing for an IPO last year...)
>but for the most part, I think it nails the area pretty well. 
>
>Steve
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