Winning San Francisco's Startup Scene
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Winning San Francisco's Startup Scene
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Re: Winning San Francisco's Startup Scene
#2great post, i dream of one day moving to the city too...it's been a three year battle =/. you did leave out one thing though, what's your drink of choice? and where the ladies at?
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#3Working in SF
If you're not an American, what are your options? From what I've heard you're pretty much out of luck unless you have the money to buy (and then renew) a visa.
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#4great post, i dream of one day moving to the city too...it's been a three year battle =/. you did leave out one thing though, what's your drink of choice? and where the ladies at?
Gin. Or beer. Or whiskey.
Also there are no ladies in San Francisco.
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#5great post, i dream of one day moving to the city too...it's been a three year battle =/. you did leave out one thing though, what's your drink of choice? and where the ladies at?
Gin. Or beer. Or whiskey. Also there are no ladies in San Francisco.
They just don't go to hacker meetups :-P
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#6yup -- great post and great insights. san ef, looks like a cool city, pretty much as thessaloniki in greece is. but skg (thessaloniki, airport code) hasn't that much of tech-scene: it only can be related with booze drinking, bar hopping, the everyone knows everyone thing plus that everything is close to you from everywhere. startup & tech scene is "growing up" smoothly and good—we call it the "sallonikon valley". anyway, again, great post.
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#7To be followed up by next post: "San Francisco dating scene, city of 6's." ;)
Oh but what fun it is.
One legit addition is the weather is beautiful, just not in June, July, or August, so be prepared to get out of the city a lot. The peninsula escapes the summer gloom, where it's a steady 80-90 every day for like 6 months straight.
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#8To be followed up by next post: "San Francisco dating scene, city of 6's." ;) Oh but what fun it is. One legit addition is the weather is beautiful, just not in June, July, or August, so be prepared to get out of the city a lot. The peninsula escapes the summer gloom, where it's a steady 80-90 every day for like 6 months straight.
The fact that you can jump on Caltrain in sunny 90 degree weather and jump out in SOMA in relative dreary weather continually amazes me.
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#9Seven year SF/Bay Area resident here. This rings true for me in a number of ways. Two anecdotes:
1. SF is small. Several years ago I was reading Dreaming in Code. Turned out a guy that I had been working with for a year or so had come from OSF, and sat in the desk the author vacated at the OSF office.
2. Right after I moved to the Bay Area I was chatting with someone at a tech writing meetup. She mentioned that she knew someone who worked at a company that could maybe throw me a contract, and they did. Things didn't go that great but it got my career going.
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#10One thing that I envy and I'm missing in my professional life is such a vibrant ecosystem and startup scene in where I live.
It's obvious that when you put two talented people together, they create value of 110% * (1 + 1). But when you mix so many of them, the multiplier starts hitting the sky. I've seen so many talents with great potential who already been kind of rockstars in their environments, but who could get so much better if they had such a great community in their city/country.