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I'm not suggesting that you have to have a distributed team -- though, you certainly can, and $10-$15k is trivial compared to the economic penalty of hiring goo
by timr 11y ago
I'm not suggesting that you have to have a distributed team -- though, you certainly can, and $10-$15k is trivial compared to the economic penalty of hiring good engineers in SF.
I'm just saying: consider locating your company somewhere else. There are great engineers all over the world, and most of your customers are not here.
- LoSboccacc 11y agoThey aren't in the valley for customer nor for techies, but for easy vc money access brought by locally connections. For now.
- timr 11y agoWell, that's an aspect of it. But there's a heaping helping of cargo-cult superstition, too. For example, ask an entrepreneur to consider locating their office in Oakland: it's becoming more "acceptable" now that Uber has committed to a huge space over there, but a year or two ago, I had people telling me that locating in Oakland was the equivalent of wanting your company to die. For being a 20-minute BART ride from downtown SF. People have lost their minds. Also, of course, few around here believe that there are good programmers outside of the city. Mostly, though, I think it's about 20-somethings who want to feel like they've made it because they're running a startup in the most expensive city in the country. The cult is powerful, for such a group of disruptive, innovative thinkers.