Reading: Week of November 11, 2013

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Bay Watched: How San Francisco’s new entrepreneurial culture is changing the country, by Nathan Heller

This week, the reading that rumbled around in my brain for days was an article, not a book, that I found via Ben Casnocha (whose blog you should read regularly, if you don’t already). The New Yorker piece posits that San Francisco is incubating a new generation of entrepreneurs, with very different strategies from their predecessors (and different from their compadres in Silicon Valley and New York). Writer Nathan Heller tells the tale artfully. I felt I’d romped around the Peninsula with him, meeting up with the cast of unconventional and creative characters myself. Good reading for locals and beyond, with keen insights into “The City” and its national impact.

Written by Nancy Branka

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