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Sen. Walter Sobchak

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39. It's is significantly a VC issue

Tue Oct 27, 2015, 01:44 PM

Oct 2015

The investors are Silicon Valley based and they like to keep a close eye on their startup investments. So the businesses start there and largely stay there.

There is also California's ban on non-compete agreements that fuels the whole start-up culture in the first place. That is very hard to replicate elsewhere.

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