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Re: Free Living Arrangements Offered to Startup Founders in Kansas City

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Post by waterlesscloud » Fri, Aug 24, 2012, 7:18 PM UTC

niels_olson wrote: post #46

waterlesscloud wrote: post #31

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KC is a reasonably culturally hip location as well. Decent music and arts scene. It's not San Francisco, but it beats the rest of Silicon Valley in that department. And the Nelson-Atkins Museum is better than anything in the Bay Area, in my opinion.

Been a while since I saw the Nelson-Atkins, but there are several solid museums in SF, as opposed to Nelson-Atkins being one of the few games in town in KC.

The Bay Area has more decent museums than KC, but it doesn't really have any outstanding museums. Kinda weird, really.

KC has an ok modern art museum, and Lawrence KS has a decent museum at the university there.

Re: Free Living Arrangements Offered to Startup Founders in Kansas City

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Post by nordicnomad82 » Fri, Aug 24, 2012, 8:53 PM UTC

batista wrote: post #44

veemjeem wrote: post #38

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The reason why SV is the scene for startups is simply because of the people here. It's expensive in SV, the traffic sucks, nightlife is mediocre, etc, but nobody cares about that stuff when they need to create a company. They only care about talented individuals, investors, and other existing startup companies. Getting free rent is just not enough of a motivator for moving to KC.

>* The reason why SV is the scene for startups is simply because of the people here. It's expensive in SV, the traffic sucks, nightlife is mediocre, etc, but nobody cares about that stuff when they need to create a company. They only care about talented individuals, investors, and other existing startup companies. Getting free rent is just not enough of a motivator for moving to KC.* Not all startups care about VC mo…

This by 1000. If you can get a small team to focus and build something awesome over the course of a few months, you can basically raise money and hire people from anywhere.

Most startups that make it out of KC right now have raised money from both coasts and locally and have Dev offices in SV and Boston if not other places.

Re: Free Living Arrangements Offered to Startup Founders in Kansas City

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Post by nordicnomad82 » Fri, Aug 24, 2012, 9:01 PM UTC

adrr wrote: post #47

msh wrote: post #34

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You dont get any compensation for noncompetes? I am not from the US, but where I come from noncompetes are enforced, but are very expensive (by law) for the companies so they are not used that often.

Nope. It doesn't require compensation. And it applies even if your are laid off, fired etc. I've seen some that extend for 2 years. Its legalized slavery which is why California outlaws them. There's even worse things out there for employees. I've read about ownership of all ideas/work clauses including outside of work hours while employed and enforced in a court of law. Imagine doing a startup nights and weekends on…

Anything that extends for more than 6 months and isn't extremely narrow in terms of geography or activities will have a hard time standing up in court. The employer has no right to deny a person a living.

As for IP stuff, that's really a case by case basis with each companies contract and how reasonable the claim that special resources and information made available by the employer were behind the development of the ip. If you're working for Starbucks and patent an algorithm for targeted advertising than no way in hell. But if you work for Garmin and develop a method to improve GPS reception in small devices, you're probably screwed.

And most of that stuff is pretty standard across the country.

Re: Free Living Arrangements Offered to Startup Founders in Kansas City

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Post by wololo » Sat, Aug 25, 2012, 2:11 AM UTC

How is the culture there?

* Westboro Baptist Church is in Topeka, KS (65 miles away)

* a professor was beaten in Lawrence, KS (30 miles away) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mirecki#Intelligent_Design...)

Re: Free Living Arrangements Offered to Startup Founders in Kansas City

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Post by ricardobeat » Sat, Aug 25, 2012, 2:35 AM UTC

swah wrote: post #41

wesgarrison wrote: post #24

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Serious question: what would it take for a US citizen to move to Brazil and work there? I don't have any idea about the visa intricacies.

I'm offering to switch places with you. There are no Apple stores nor Amazon here. We have sugar Coke though...

We do have Apple franchises, and Amazon is coming this year (reportedly) :)

But we don't have Cherry Coke :(

Re: Free Living Arrangements Offered to Startup Founders in Kansas City

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Post by sneak » Sat, Aug 25, 2012, 4:49 PM UTC

ricardobeat wrote: post #22

EwanG wrote: post #18

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Assuming you are serious and not just venting, where are the offers like this outside the US?

Well, in the largest cities of Brazil you can get 100mb internet for US$150, rent a good house for US$1000 (or an apartment for $500), and hire great talent for ~$2-3k/month; they all have active startup and developer scenes. As a bonus you get access to a booming mobile market :)

Same goes for Berlin (where I live), plus our Apple store opens in a few months, we will be a Lufthansa hub shortly, and Amazon works well here. There are also tons of hackers and startup events here!