{"id":1709,"date":"2008-03-03T05:24:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T05:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/guest-opinion-entrepreneurship-nerds-rich\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T05:24:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T05:24:42","slug":"guest-opinion-entrepreneurship-nerds-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/guest-opinion-entrepreneurship-nerds-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Opinion &#8211; Entrepreneurship: Nerds &amp; rich people &#8211; Oakland Business Review &#8211; MLive.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/blog.mlive.com\/oak_business_review\/2008\/02\/guest_opinion_entrepreneurship.html#more'>Guest Opinion &#8211; Entrepreneurship: Nerds &amp; rich people &#8211; Oakland Business Review &#8211; MLive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/ashwinl.tumblr.com\/post\/25443115\">February 3rd<\/a>, I re-read an essay by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Graham\">Paul Graham<\/a> titled <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/siliconvalley.html\">How to be Silicon Valley<\/a><\/i>, where he states:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&quot;It would be a waste of time to try to reverse the fortunes of a declining industrial town like Detroit or Philadelphia by trying to encourage startups.  Those places have too much momentum in the wrong direction.&ldquo;<\/p>\n<p>Technically, UM is in Ann Arbor, which Graham describes as a &quot;town young people already flock to&rdquo;, but I still believe <b>Detroit<\/b> has the potential to be an entrepreneurial hub, based on the people I have met that are trying to make it happen. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Opinion &#8211; Entrepreneurship: Nerds &amp; rich people &#8211; Oakland Business Review &#8211; MLive.com On February 3rd, I re-read an essay by Paul Graham titled How to be Silicon Valley, where he states: \u00a0&quot;It would be a waste of time to try to reverse the fortunes of a declining industrial town like Detroit or Philadelphia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}