Dear Canadian entrepreneurs: Silicon Valley wants you to stay home

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have a message for Canadian entrepreneurs: Stay home.

That doesn’t mean you can’t visit the land of digital milk and honey – you should visit. As often as possible, in fact.

“There’s no substitute for Silicon Valley. It’s just a very unique place on the planet,” says Joanne Fedeyko, the executive director of the C100 Association in San Francisco.

It’s a buzzing startup ecosystem amped up on sunshine, creativity, investment and young ambition. “Tech is everywhere here. It’s in the coffee shops, it’s on street corners, it’s in restaurants, it’s in everyone’s conversations,” Ms. Fedeyko says. Read More…