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The lesson for GM and its American rivals now struggling to stay in business is that when they launch daring innovations, they need the will and a way to ensure that those ideas don't get drowned by the corporate mainstream.

Supporting a family in NYC or Silicon Valley is insanely expensive especially for someone who has no cushion to fall back on during the months when funding is tight. (Which is a major reason you see lots of Silicon Valley startups from twentysomething men with no expenses and few startups from women with kids, and heated discussion on TechCrunch about salaries for founders who can't make ends meet.)