That will require convincing a number of developers that Amsterdam is, as Jansen says, "a great place to live," but also home to a viable tech scene.
Whereas in the early years we'd share a club with goths, gays, lesbians, cross-dressers, swingers, etc just to get enough bodies to make it viable, the scene fragmented into different cliques, because the newbies often don't "get" the need for acceptance and tolerance.
"I probably sound like a crotchety old man, but there's a lack of a viable local music scene happening now," he said.
What the creative ecosystem in the Twin Cities mostly lacks is a viable commercial gallery scene, a situation that encourages certain kinds of work and disadvantages others.
Vampire Weekend, by far the most commercially viable group on this scene, was the focus of a bidding war that included majors, but it signed with XL, an indie; its self-titled debut opened in the Top 20.
It is also about trying to build an art scene that is viable and that has the scale and infrastructure that would allow it to stand alone and no longer rely on the generosity of foreign institutions such as the Alliance Française or the Goethe Institute, which fund a large chunk of art production in Kenya.
Women's football came home last night and now, after the biggest occasion in the history of the female game in Great Britain, we have our best chance to establish it as a viable part of the national sporting scene.
IF you say art and Brooklyn in the same sentence, you probably mean Williamsburg, which for about a decade has been the only viable alternative to Chelsea as a New York gallery scene.
The race for the most accurate movement slowed to almost a halt when quartz watches hit the scene, and there are almost no new viable complications to be invented.
As an underground scene in London, sound systems were hugely commercially viable, and not just roots reggae but soul and funk too.
