Great app! Very cool to see where all the start ups are. Also, this is useful for job hunters.
Let's Map the Silicon Valley Startups
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Re: Let's Map the Silicon Valley Startups
#22Great job! Just a devil's advocate question.. why do you guys think that these locations matter anyways, besides for mere curiosity of seeing them on a map?
[I'm thinking of doing some research about this, that's why I'm asking]
Re: Let's Map the Silicon Valley Startups
#23Great job! Just a devil's advocate question.. why do you guys think that these locations matter anyways, besides for mere curiosity of seeing them on a map? [I'm thinking of doing some research about this, that's why I'm asking]
for me it's actually just interesting to know where these startups are based. (i'm not based in US).
in case I visit SF I'd probably have a street view look at these offices and plan some kind of trip or something
Re: Let's Map the Silicon Valley Startups
#24These are always fun. I did one 7 years ago for all of Web 2.0[1]. Didn't crunchbase ever produce a mapped view? I thought they had at some point.
Re: Let's Map the Silicon Valley Startups
#25Nice work, Here here are some additional tips :)
1. Overlapping markers problem can be resolved in a nicer way 2. markers will look nicer if replaced with vectors (svg) 3. instead of loading all companies to the client side you could load them through ajax and win some performance
Re: Let's Map the Silicon Valley Startups
#26what's up with the peninsula being so empty?
Re: Let's Map the Silicon Valley Startups
#27Startups in and around Tel Aviv:
http://mappedinisrael.com
Re: Let's Map the Silicon Valley Startups
#28Nice simple, well implemented idea. I have a question which often comes up when I hear about "startups" on HN or in mainstream media. When is a company no longer a "startup"? I know it's been addressed before, and there is no shortage of answers around [0]. But I can't help but think that, given my intuitive understanding, companies such as Atlassian are no longer startups. [0] - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=when+is+a+c…
Steve Blank has a good and well-known definition for the term startup: "an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model."
http://steveblank.com/2010/01/25/whats-a-startup-first-princ...
In this sense, a typical new restaurant or dry cleaner isn't a startup, because they're following an established business model. A startup restaurant would be experimenting with innovative pricing, production, or other techniques, and would probably have to tweak its model on the road to success and would face an outsized risk of failure.
Re: Let's Map the Silicon Valley Startups
#29Great job! Just a devil's advocate question.. why do you guys think that these locations matter anyways, besides for mere curiosity of seeing them on a map? [I'm thinking of doing some research about this, that's why I'm asking]
It is great if you want to optimize for commute when looking for a job.
Obviously, location isn't the only factor that matters when choosing a job (otherwise you might as well work at the corner McDonalds) but if you know that your next job will have a great commute and/or be located in a convenient place for your non-work life, it has some positives going in. Also, if an area has a huge number of interesting companies in it, chances may be good that it contains an interesting company that would be a good fit for you, one that you might not have otherwise been aware of.
Re: Let's Map the Silicon Valley Startups
#30Startup Genome has been doing this for a long time, with data for many cities around the world: http://www.startupgenome.com/