Sad. It would be refreshing to get some west-coast culture to NYC.
I ask sincerely, what is west-coast culture?
(I have lived in New Hampshire all my life.)
Stanford Pulls Bid for New York Tech Campus
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#12"we’re not exactly chomping at the bit to see New York squander its funding on students who spend their time building Star Wars simulations" So, a New York based venture capitalist booster says that Stanford engineering students are "not tapped into the current tech scene", and ridicules that they know how to built robots. Fascinating.
Is that in the story? I can't find it.
It's in this story, http://www.betabeat.com/2011/07/18/stanford-students-dont-wa..., which was linked.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is that in the story? I can't find it.
It's in this story, http://www.betabeat.com/2011/07/18/stanford-students-dont-wa... , which was linked.
Oops, thanks, sorry about attributing to the wrong story, I must have just fluidly slipped into that other one.
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#14"we’re not exactly chomping at the bit to see New York squander its funding on students who spend their time building Star Wars simulations" So, a New York based venture capitalist booster says that Stanford engineering students are "not tapped into the current tech scene", and ridicules that they know how to built robots. Fascinating.
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#15Sad. It would be refreshing to get some west-coast culture to NYC.
I ask sincerely, what is west-coast culture? (I have lived in New Hampshire all my life.)
The stereotypical San Franciscan gets up at 7am, wears business-casual to work, and his or her hobbies include biking and wine/food. The stereotypical New Yorker gets up at 9am, wears a suit to work, and his or her hobbies include alcoholism and chain smoking.
I'm joking, but only kind of. I spent this summer working in both NYC and the Bay area and it was like a night and day difference. NYC is so much more hierarchical, image conscious and anxiously intense.
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#16Sad. It would be refreshing to get some west-coast culture to NYC.
I ask sincerely, what is west-coast culture? (I have lived in New Hampshire all my life.)
As someone who grew up on the east coast and migrated here for grad school, I have noticed that west-coast culture tends to be less judgmental, more free spirited, and more novelty-seeking.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's in this story, http://www.betabeat.com/2011/07/18/stanford-students-dont-wa... , which was linked.
Oops, thanks, sorry about attributing to the wrong story, I must have just fluidly slipped into that other one.
It wasn't said by a VC booster though. It was said by one of betabeat's writers.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I ask sincerely, what is west-coast culture? (I have lived in New Hampshire all my life.)
The stereotypical San Franciscan gets up at 7am, wears business-casual to work, and his or her hobbies include biking and wine/food. The stereotypical New Yorker gets up at 9am, wears a suit to work, and his or her hobbies include alcoholism and chain smoking. I'm joking, but only kind of. I spent this summer working in both NYC and the Bay area and it was like a night and day difference. NYC is so much more hierarch…
Heh, it's funny how that matches my perceptions of the west coast as well. The only difference is in getting up at 7am--nobody at work gets there before lunch. Of course, it's a tech startup, but even the medium-sized (~600 people) enterprise software company had plenty of people coming in around 11-12.
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#19Personally, I thought it a bit of an odd idea based on the large geographic and cultural distances between Palo Alto and NYC. It just didn't seem like the right ecosystem for a transplant. On the east coast, even Boston would seem better suited from a cultural standpoint - there is much more of a public emphasis on technology.
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#20Sad. It would be refreshing to get some west-coast culture to NYC.
I ask sincerely, what is west-coast culture? (I have lived in New Hampshire all my life.)
I grew up in the north east and then relocated to the west. Almost without fail when I met someone new on the East Coast (especially NE), one of the first questions they would always ask is "where are you from?" I cannot recall ever being asked that as part of an introduction while I've lived out west.
In my experience there is a lot of focus in the northeast on where you come from, and what your background is. I've found out west (and I'm not even in the bay area) there's a lot more focus on where you want to go and what you can do.
And I think related to this, I've generally found people to be much more open and friendly. People are generally much more willing to let you into their social worlds than on the east coast.