On the job boards page you were linking to startup.ly which is a parked domain.
I've edited it to link to startuply.com, I hope this is the one you meant.
HN: We're starting a "Move to Silicon Valley" wiki. We could use some help.
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#12My suggestion: a section about immigration and a list of startups hiring people who wants to work in U.S.
dear lord: please someone make a resource for immigration. it is baffling.
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#13We are working on something similar in Australia - http://www.startup-australia.org/thevalley. I am moving to SV early next year. I'll try to add to the SVstartup wiki based on few bits of information I have gathered.
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#14I think Quora is a more appropriate destination for this content, it already has a great critical mass of users, and a more accessible UI. (you also know it won't just vanish tomorrow)
re: quora...
I've thought about that quite extensively. The problem with Quora is that it's not terribly easy to link to other pages. I think people need a centralized reference point.
re: longevity of content...
I've been running the http://www.hackersandfounders.com meetup in Silicon Valley for almost 3 years. I'm going to be in this town for quite some time, and if and when I do leave, I'll be sure to hand the projects off to someone that can keep the content up and running.
The reason that we're doing this, is Silicon Valley needs more engineers, and more startups. Everyone talks about there being a "bubble", but what I'm seeing is an amazing amount of really cool, hacker founded companies get money to build companies with. And they are all working really hard to hire talent. This situation is only going to get worse over the next couple of years, so we're trying to make the leap to moving to Silicon Valley easier.
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#15I think Quora is a more appropriate destination for this content, it already has a great critical mass of users, and a more accessible UI. (you also know it won't just vanish tomorrow)
re: quora... I've thought about that quite extensively. The problem with Quora is that it's not terribly easy to link to other pages. I think people need a centralized reference point. re: longevity of content... I've been running the http://www.hackersandfounders.com meetup in Silicon Valley for almost 3 years. I'm going to be in this town for quite some time, and if and when I do leave, I'll be sure to hand the pro…
There is no reason why you couldn't make a meta topic like "Valuable to startups moving to SV" and tag stuff from there. The benefit of this would be you can harness all the content already on Quora (eg: http://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-best-hookah-bar-in-San-Fra...)
I think its harder to link to pages on wiki style platforms than Quora. The whole point of Quora is an accessible wiki platform :)
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#16I just started something very similar for the DC area (http://dcstartupwiki.com/). It makes sense to have a centralized location for all this startup in, but delegated by locale. That way, there only needs to be one location to goto to get started and from there you can choose where you are looking for relevant startup info about.
I know PG owns http://startupwiki.com, and has some longterm plans for it, but it'd be nice to see a easily rememberable centralized location for all this information. Somewhere down the line it could gain sponsorships in order to pay for itself, and (BFAD) become a centralized location for startups to lobby for things then benefit all of them (i.e. legislation, at least in the US)
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#17By they way, incoming links from blogs, etc... are always welcome. We really want this to be a community resource that becomes useful for years.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
re: quora... I've thought about that quite extensively. The problem with Quora is that it's not terribly easy to link to other pages. I think people need a centralized reference point. re: longevity of content... I've been running the http://www.hackersandfounders.com meetup in Silicon Valley for almost 3 years. I'm going to be in this town for quite some time, and if and when I do leave, I'll be sure to hand the pro…
There is no reason why you couldn't make a meta topic like "Valuable to startups moving to SV" and tag stuff from there. The benefit of this would be you can harness all the content already on Quora (eg: http://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-best-hookah-bar-in-San-Fra... ) I think its harder to link to pages on wiki style platforms than Quora. The whole point of Quora is an accessible wiki platform :)
I find quora to be awesome for opinions, not so impressive on facts owing to voting by popularity. They both have their advantages, but it would be nice just to have one spot to point everyone who asks about this stuff. I get a tremendous amount of people asking for a primer on SV.
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#19This is a great idea. Anybody know of similar resources for Seattle? I'm moving there inside of 6 weeks with a half-time telecommute job and I'm looking to get involved in the tech scene and find people to hack with.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is no reason why you couldn't make a meta topic like "Valuable to startups moving to SV" and tag stuff from there. The benefit of this would be you can harness all the content already on Quora (eg: http://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-best-hookah-bar-in-San-Fra... ) I think its harder to link to pages on wiki style platforms than Quora. The whole point of Quora is an accessible wiki platform :)
I find quora to be awesome for opinions, not so impressive on facts owing to voting by popularity. They both have their advantages, but it would be nice just to have one spot to point everyone who asks about this stuff. I get a tremendous amount of people asking for a primer on SV.
Sure. But you want peoples opinions on where to live, where to work, where to meet, how to join a startup. These aren't factual topics - you want the healthy debate?