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Can Brighton be the next Silicon Valley?(and other FAQs)

@PhilJonesWired

FAQ 1

Can Brighton be the next Silicon Valley?

“Silicon Valley is the only place on earth not trying to figure out how to become Silicon Valley”

Robert Metcalfe

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Silicon RoundaboutSilicon AlleySilicon FenSilicon CoastChilecon Valley

40% of all the USA’s Venture Capital investment (and 75% of California’s) goes to Silicon Valley

40% of all Californian patents and 13% of the USA’s come out of Silicon Valley

1% of all Canadian’s work in Silicon Valley

Google went from Susan Wojciciki’s garage...

…to a market cap of $200bn in just 15 years

Density

Brighton

Start-upsGrowthValueConcentration

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Brighton

FAQ 2: Aren’t they just lifestyle businesses?

Comparing Cambridge & Brighton

Social connectivitySocial Connectivity

Fusion – what it is and why it works

Being on the edge=-

Mainstreaming the marginal

“Rocking our Quirk”*

*NixonMcInnes

FAQ 3: Isn’t this ‘Only in Brighton’?

Is it a unique set of characteristics?

and

Is it a wrong model for success for anyone else?

• 2 Wired Sussex examples :

Brighton Digital ExchangeThe FuseBox

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