Reflection on upcoming trip

       I am thrilled to get a chance to see a climate where startups succeed in just a few weeks! According to Silicon Valley really is more innovative by Lisa Krieger startups have 20 times the average median of quality and 90 times of the lowest ranked cities in California. Other geographies like Silicon Valley tend to focus more on quantity and not quality saying geographic is “nurturing.” I look forward to witnessing first hand these startup companies and then looking at others that once were startups such as Google and Facebook. They claim “we have a habitat here that creates a supportive environment” and I look forward to witnessing how they support each other. Due to their intellectual capital through universities such as Stanford, UCLA, and Berkeley they get the highest quality of startups around research institutions that attract bright curious, energetic and ambitious people.