DO THESE THINGS. Entrepreneur Lessons From Outside the Valley

Silicon Valley-ites are not the only people in the world who know cutting-edge media entrepreneurship. Why, then, do we have such center-of-the-universe attitude about the Valley that’s rivaled only by NYC and its frighteningly die-hard residents (friends in New York, I love you)?

What do you do if you want to be an entrepreneur on the cutting edge of social media and community-based technologies and services, but you don’t live close enough to Silicon Valley to gain entrance into The Club?

Over the next few days, I’ll be posting lessons learned from a chat I recently had with Antoine Verdon, the 25 year old cofounder of Sandbox Network, an international community and online network of ‘exceptional people under 30’ based out of Switzerland.