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Willow Garage Founder Scott Hassan Aims To Build a Startup Village
Tekla Perry (3034735) writes "Scott Hassan, founder of robotic research lab Willow Garage, is behind a large real estate development in Menlo Park, Calif. He reportedly plans to create an incubator village with 18,500 square meters of workspace and another 18,500 square meters of living space on a 30,000 square meter site, combining the advantages of a garage startup environment (what could be more convenient than working where you live) and an incubator (access to other smart entrepreneurs and ideas)." Would you want to live in this kind of environment?
Except that you would rarely see new people.
More innovation happens by accidents, mistakes and misunderstandings. Or the ever silly questions of the newcomers.
Without inflow of new people, the "village" would suffer mental rot pretty quickly.
In a sense, a maker fairs are already better "startup villages", IMO.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
Yes, it's part of this weird general fetishization of entrepreneurship. Why should everyone be making a startup? I've run into people who say they want to have one. Then you ask them what their company would *do* and they tell you they're still trying to decide. When it ends up being having a start-up to have a start-up, something is very wrong.