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Do you have to move to the Bay Area? I'm a professor at WashU and am interested, but I live in St. Louis.
by timrpeterson 9y ago
Do you have to move to the Bay Area?
I'm a professor at WashU and am interested, but I live in St. Louis.
- asimpletune 9y agoJust move! It’s great here!
- timrpeterson 9y agoI have ample lab space and the team to execute here in St. Louis. Also, I have a family. YC's "move to the bay area" requirement makes sense for software startups, but less so for bio (at least for most of the good ideas).
- jonlucc 9y agoAs a fellow midwesterner, I agree. It might make sense if the requirement was to move to a bio-rich region (such as San Diego or Boston), but the bay doesn't seem like the place to be for a lab.
- timrpeterson 9y agoMost people who will be qualified will already have lab space wherever they are.
- giarc 9y agoI agree, and if they were required to move, it would take more than the 3 month batch to prepare items for movement. Why not just leave in their location?
- vqc 9y agoThe Bay Area is extremely bio rich. It is on par with Boston and SD w/r/t bio jobs, lab space, NIH funding, VC funding, etc.
- jonlucc 9y agoThat's great to hear; thanks!
- snowmaker 9y agoYou don't. You have to travel here to participate in events that take place in the bay area, but you don't have to move here. Founders with labs set up elsewhere have sometimes participated by traveling back and forth.