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# Does location matter for web startups?
- URL: https://werd.io/does-location-matter-for-web-startups/
- Published: 2007-02-13T10:11:42.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:01:04.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: General, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

Richard MacManus has [a poll over at Read/Write Web](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/poll%5Fdoes%5Flocation%5Fmatter%5Fweb%5Finnovation.php) about web innovation, and whether it's unique to Silicon Valley. I left [a long comment](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/poll%5Fdoes%5Flocation%5Fmatter%5Fweb%5Finnovation.php#comment-9670), but what do you think?

If we pin it down further to the e-learning sphere, where is the real innovation happening? (And by innovation I mean the type that leads to products that can actually be used, as opposed to blue skies thinking.)