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Re: If You’re Building a Startup You Need to Move to Phoenix (Not Silicon Valley)

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Post by School-Cotton » Wed, Jun 01, 2016, 12:46 AM UTC

notacoward wrote: post #29

School-Cotton wrote: post #20

If you are okay with not hiring the best, then sure, move your startup to Phoenix. Startups go to Silicon Valley and NYC because that's where the talent is. Talent goes there because that's where the startups are. Even if everything about Phoenix is objectively better, how are you going to overcome this trend?

Real talent goes (or stays) wherever it damn well pleases, and has the leverage to insist on telecommuting if that's not where HQ happens to be. "All the talent is in X" is egotistical BS for any value of X, whether it's a city or a whole country.

You're talking about the super-high-end. I'm talking about a statistical distribution.

There are way, way more talented people, for any level of talent, in the bay area than in Phoenix.

Re: If You’re Building a Startup You Need to Move to Phoenix (Not Silicon Valley)

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Post by iokevins » Wed, Jun 01, 2016, 2:16 AM UTC

Water supply: what's the latest (?) Lake Mead still seems really low:

http://arachnoid.com/NaturalResources/

An AZCentral article, from August 2014, which lays out some good news/bad news points, including the 2014 NASA groundwater study:

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2014/08/11...

Re: If You’re Building a Startup You Need to Move to Phoenix (Not Silicon Valley)

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Post by throwaway2016a » Wed, Jun 01, 2016, 12:38 PM UTC

Should try New Hampshire... just slightly north of Boston so you get a lot of the benefits of being adjacent to the city but a lot nicer place to settle down in a lot of ways (lower cost of living, newer and more affordable housing, etc). And it still very much has an innovation atmosphere. In fact, there is a talent pool of people who commute down to Boston every day that would love to shorten that commute.

Nashua and Manchester New Hampshire are roughly the same distance from Boston as Providence, Rhode Island (which also has a tech scene) but I'd rather live their than Rhode Island.