Silicon Alley Vs. Silicon Valley Startups: Guess Who's Already Won?

Y Combinator's Winter 2013 class is putting their money on hardware startups.  They recently voted on which of their peers were most likely to succeed, and the top two were both hardware companies, YC founder Paul Graham tweeted yesterday.

2012 was a huge year for Silicon Valley.  Facebook went public, Marissa Mayer joined Yahoo, laws changed to foster new industries, enterprise startups got hot, and billion-dollar companies were formed and acquired.

Silicon Valley continues the prodigious job growth that has made it stand apart from the rest of America, George Avalos of the Oakland Tribune reports.

A new enterprise technology called software-defined networking is still in its infancy. But it's already created some billion-dollar success stories, capturing the imagination of Silicon Valley's savviest investors and inventors.

Top Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator has produced an army of super successful startups.

To invest in the best batches of tech startups, there’s naturally no better place to look in the country other than Silicon Valley. It’s the technology nerve center where ideas, capital and culture find chemistry and generate more venture capital and filed patents than anywhere else in the United States.

You hear it all the time “It doesn’t matter where you build your startup.”, or “If you don’t build your startup in Silicon Valley, you don’t want to win bad enough”. Either way, Robert Scoble left a very thoughtful answer arguing for the types of things that happen in the valley that definitely gives you an advantage.

MENLO PARK, California (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics is looking for some Silicon Valley magic.