A Northwest Pipeline to Silicon Valley
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A Northwest Pipeline to Silicon Valley
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#2Glad that Seattle is getting noticed. Wish more Seattle people would stay in Seattle rather than think they need to relocate to SV. Just my opinion.
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#3Hank was a co-founder of the first startup I worked at after leaving Microsoft. Great guy, super smart, super friendly.
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#4>even if mist and dark skies envelop the scenery for much of the year.
Obviously written by someone who doesn't live in Seattle. Seattle is a beautiful city in a very beautiful location. Today it's sunny, 70 degrees, with spectacular views of the lakes, trees, and snow-capped Olympic mountains.
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#5>even if mist and dark skies envelop the scenery for much of the year. Obviously written by someone who doesn't live in Seattle. Seattle is a beautiful city in a very beautiful location. Today it's sunny, 70 degrees, with spectacular views of the lakes, trees, and snow-capped Olympic mountains.
But this is the best it's going to get, and we only have a few more weeks of it.
It is beautiful to me, but there are quite a lot of days with dark skies which does make it a little depressing.
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#6>even if mist and dark skies envelop the scenery for much of the year. Obviously written by someone who doesn't live in Seattle. Seattle is a beautiful city in a very beautiful location. Today it's sunny, 70 degrees, with spectacular views of the lakes, trees, and snow-capped Olympic mountains.
It's now early July. We can count all of the cloudless days this year so far on one hand.
Seattle averages about 200 mostly cloudy to overcast days per year, and about 90 that are partly cloudy. You're right, it's amazingly beautiful up here, but it's also not sunny most of the time. Even with the clouds, I'll take living up here over being back in the Bay Area any time.
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#7>even if mist and dark skies envelop the scenery for much of the year. Obviously written by someone who doesn't live in Seattle. Seattle is a beautiful city in a very beautiful location. Today it's sunny, 70 degrees, with spectacular views of the lakes, trees, and snow-capped Olympic mountains.
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#8>even if mist and dark skies envelop the scenery for much of the year. Obviously written by someone who doesn't live in Seattle. Seattle is a beautiful city in a very beautiful location. Today it's sunny, 70 degrees, with spectacular views of the lakes, trees, and snow-capped Olympic mountains.
It is, however, undeniably overcast-prone and short-dayed in winter.
I think it’s worth it, but it is a legitimate problem for some people.
To fend off uninformed remarks elsewhere in the comments, here’s Wikipedia on the climate of Seattle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle#Climate
And to fend off uninformed remarks about seasonal affective disorder, which is real but doesn’t account for every instance of feeling bad in winter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder
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#9>even if mist and dark skies envelop the scenery for much of the year. Obviously written by someone who doesn't live in Seattle. Seattle is a beautiful city in a very beautiful location. Today it's sunny, 70 degrees, with spectacular views of the lakes, trees, and snow-capped Olympic mountains.
It is, however, undeniably overcast-prone and short-dayed in winter. I think it’s worth it, but it is a legitimate problem for some people. To fend off uninformed remarks elsewhere in the comments, here’s Wikipedia on the climate of Seattle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle#Climate And to fend off uninformed remarks about seasonal affective disorder, which is real but doesn’t account for every instance of feeling…
I like being outside on nice days. On rainy days I enjoy coffee and coding. My winter productivity in Seattle is probably higher than it would be in Palo Alto.
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#10This article focuses more on potential employees graduating from UW, but Seattle is a great place to found a startup. In the Valley, everything is pretty crowded, and if you can find real estate, it's not going to be cheap.
In Seattle, it's a buyers market and you can grab some office space or a hacker house for a lot less.
There are more startup resources in the Valley (accelerators/angels/VCs), but that doesn't mean there is a good amount in the Emerald City. One of them, Madrona Venture Group (http://www.madrona.com/), just raised $300M to be invested in startups. There are also a few hacker spaces popping up, such as Surf Incubator (http://www.surfincubator.com).
If you want a good place to start your company with less competition and more rain, move to Seattle.