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Re: San Diego?

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Post by food79 » Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 6:38 PM UTC

kirubakaran wrote: post #11

doubleplus wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

san diego really sucks anyway. and that's coming from a native. :)

I heard you guys have the best weather... no?

I'm a native. I found the weather to be boring. It is always sunny, never rains, and the plants are either evergreen or scrubby bushes. So you don't get a sense of what season it is.

If you work there then you are not outside much though - you get into your car in your covered garage, and drive to the office park. If you want lunch, then you drive from the office park to the strip mall.

It is not a walkable place at all--even in the strip malls, to get from one end to another you drive from one spot in the parking lot to another.

Re: San Diego?

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Post by food79 » Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 6:39 PM UTC

noelchurchill wrote: post #13

Who else is located here in San Diego?? I love it here, but I don't feel like I'm surrounded by many other people who have the same interest in web startups. So in that sense it's not very motivating for me. But the weather is great, the beaches are nice, and the ladies tend to be more attractive ;-)

There are startups, just not as many web ones. If you want biotech or wireless then you are in business though.

Re: San Diego?

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Post by kyro » Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 7:02 PM UTC

Prrometheus, what's your email address?

I used to live in SD, but transferred to Orange County. I'd really like to chat and get together with news.yc'ers in southern California, the few that seem to be out there.

Re: San Diego?

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Post by benmathes » Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 8:14 PM UTC

jey wrote: post #20

pfedor wrote: post #18

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san diego really sucks if you don't have a car. As opposed to the Silicon Valley??

I'm a San Diego expat who now lives in San Francisco without a car. I love it. I just wish we had SD weather here...

San Francisco proper and the middle of the Valley (Palo Alto, Menlo Park, etc.) are very different -- from San Mateo down to San Jose you pretty much need a car since everything is very flat and spread out compared to, say, Manhattan or Boston.

Re: San Diego?

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Post by falsestprophet » Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 10:00 PM UTC

caudicus wrote: post #10

paulsb wrote: post #3

There is a very large biotech scene in San Diego, so I imagine there will plenty of VC's. Not sure about the computer tech scene, though.

Biotech/computer startups! We can't all be doing social networks and aggregators ;) Just think about coding looking unto the beach with a cup of tea. Living the dream.

Are you working on a computational biotech startup? Do you know of any examples. I have only found a few that I am interested in, but they are out of Montreal and Budapest.

Re: San Diego?

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Post by doubleplus » Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 10:40 PM UTC

food79 wrote: post #21

kirubakaran wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I heard you guys have the best weather... no?

I'm a native. I found the weather to be boring. It is always sunny, never rains, and the plants are either evergreen or scrubby bushes. So you don't get a sense of what season it is. If you work there then you are not outside much though - you get into your car in your covered garage, and drive to the office park. If you want lunch, then you drive from the office park to the strip mall. It is not a walkable place at…

2nd on the weather. I'm living somewhere else for the first time (Portland) and I just experienced my first ever autumn and winter.

I understand to the OP these responses might seem a little dismal, but SD really does have a stagnant feel to it imho.

Re: San Diego?

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Post by paulsb » Thu, Feb 28, 2008, 11:56 AM UTC

falsestprophet wrote: post #25

caudicus wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Biotech/computer startups! We can't all be doing social networks and aggregators ;) Just think about coding looking unto the beach with a cup of tea. Living the dream.

Are you working on a computational biotech startup? Do you know of any examples. I have only found a few that I am interested in, but they are out of Montreal and Budapest.

I am, or at least I would be if I could find some programmers. Being out of the UK probably isn't much help to you either. As for examples, most tend to be in the drug discovery/modelling area because industry will pay for that. I think there is huge potential for targeting other areas as well as industry. Some of the really good stuff is academically based, which means it just whimpers along as the funding comes in from grants; eventually, most of these projects just die because they aren't promoted and/or developed with a business mindset.

Re: San Diego?

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Post by delackner » Thu, Feb 28, 2008, 12:35 PM UTC

Do not pick San Diego. I have lived in the valley and in San Diego, and it is a cultural wasteland that will drive all your best potential hires away to other parts of the world. It sure drove me away, to Tokyo.