Does anyone know of a "Move to New York" wiki? One specific to startups would be great, but a more generic guide would be great, too.
HN: We're starting a "Move to Silicon Valley" wiki. We could use some help.
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Re: HN: We're starting a "Move to Silicon Valley" wiki. We could use some help.
#32Why just Silicon Valley and not the whole SF Bay Area? edit: Actually, now I look at your wiki it seems to be focused on the whole Bay Area while just claiming to be about the valley. This is wrong: San Francisco isn't part of SV and certainly the East Bay isn't either. (San Jose is debatable.) Now, while most of the early errors made in a wiki will get corrected eventually, giving it the wrong name is an uncorrectab…
I completely agree with you that geographically speaking, silicon valley is considered a sub-region of the greater bay area, but it's also kind of an entity or state of mind that goes beyond its borders. For instance, if someone in LA wrote a wiki about "moving to hollywood", we wouldn't expect it to be geographically limited to hollywood. Personally, I don't think the title is all that bad.
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#33My 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.
I usually look up immigration questions at
http://www.murthy.com, in particular the H1B FAQ: http://www.murthy.com/h1bfaqs.html
Re: HN: We're starting a "Move to Silicon Valley" wiki. We could use some help.
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I think both are critical. Quora questions such as http://www.quora.com/I-am-a-creative-guy-with-a-startup-idea... are a great example.
This question gets asked on quora repeatedly and I've answered it a dozen times, but the 212 vote (an counting) answer that I wrote is particularly useless in terms of taking actions, whereas the one I wrote with a practical list of sites and events to check out usually top out at 12 votes, even if they are the top answer.
Clearly a simple list of different places is the best answer for this sort of thing and would probably best in ONE wiki article which can be easily found. Not a dozens of nearly identical questions.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I think both are critical. Quora questions such as http://www.quora.com/I-am-a-creative-guy-with-a-startup-idea... are a great example. This question gets asked on quora repeatedly and I've answered it a dozen times, but the 212 vote (an counting) answer that I wrote is particularly useless in terms of taking actions, whereas the one I wrote with a practical list of sites and events to check out usually top out at 12…
Oh...perhaps I should also say that I think we should all put links to quora questions in the wiki where appropriate.
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#36Wow, what perfect timing, I'm planning on moving out there in 6 months and just started my research :) I'll add my thoughts to the wiki after I go through the whole process
Very cool. Stop by a Hackers and Founders meetup. I'll pour you a beer.
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#37My suggestion: a section about immigration and a list of startups hiring people who wants to work in U.S.
If an EU founder of an SV-based startup could do a brief write-up of the process they went through (and how much it cost) that would be absolutely fantastic. Anonymous if necessary.
I know some travel to the Bay Area for less than 3 months at a time on the visa waiver programme. I'm also curious about the gotchas to watch out for with that approach and the practicalities of getting by for such short times (e.g. finding a place to stay, etc.).
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#38Thank you! I wish I could contribute. I'll certainly keep an eye on the content that does turn up as we're getting increasingly restless in Vienna. In addition to the immigration related stuff mentioned in another thread, I'd be much obliged to anyone who could contribute cost-of-living related info. Basics like rent, utilities and food and any expense I might not be expecting coming from Europe...
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#39also you can find some references/links in this post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1586027
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#40I gave a presentation at FOWA in London recently on this exact topic - you can see my slides at http://www.slideshare.net/bandrew/fowa-2010-fighting-and-thr...
Hope you find the content useful.