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re: quora... I've thought about that quite extensively. The problem with Quora is that it's not terribly easy to link to other pages. I think people need a c

re: quora... I've thought about that quite extensively. The problem with Quora is that it's not terribly easy to link to other pages. I think people need a centralized reference point. re: longevity of content... I've been running the http://www.hackersandfounders.com http://www.hackersandfounders.com meetup in Silicon Valley for almost 3 years. I'm going to be in this town for quite some time, and if and when I do leave, I'll be sure to hand the projects off to someone that can keep the content up and running. The reason that we're doing this, is Silicon Valley needs more engineers, and more startups. Everyone talks about there being a "bubble", but what I'm seeing is an amazing amount of really cool, hacker founded companies get money to build companies with. And they are all working really hard to hire talent. This situation is only going to get worse over the next couple of years, so we're trying to make the leap to moving to Silicon Valley easier.

pclark 16y ago
There is no reason why you couldn't make a meta topic like "Valuable to startups moving to SV" and tag stuff from there. The benefit of this would be you can harness all the content already on Quora (eg: http://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-best-hookah-bar-in-San-Francisco?q=san+francisco+bar http://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-best-hookah-bar-in-San-Fra...) I think its harder to link to pages on wiki style platforms than Quora. The whole point of Quora is an accessible wiki platform :)
- TristanKromer 16y ago
  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.
  - pclark 16y ago
    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?
    - TristanKromer 16y ago
      I think both are critical. Quora questions such as http://www.quora.com/I-am-a-creative-guy-with-a-startup-idea-Where-is-the-best-place-to-find-a-rockstar-developer-to-bring-it-to-life 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.
      - TristanKromer 16y ago
        Oh...perhaps I should also say that I think we should all put links to quora questions in the wiki where appropriate.

pclark 16y ago

There is no reason why you couldn't make a meta topic like "Valuable to startups moving to SV" and tag stuff from there. The benefit of this would be you can harness all the content already on Quora (eg: http://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-best-hookah-bar-in-San-Francisco?q=san+francisco+bar http://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-best-hookah-bar-in-San-Fra...) I think its harder to link to pages on wiki style platforms than Quora. The whole point of Quora is an accessible wiki platform :)

TristanKromer 16y ago
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.
- pclark 16y ago
  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?
  - TristanKromer 16y ago
    I think both are critical. Quora questions such as http://www.quora.com/I-am-a-creative-guy-with-a-startup-idea-Where-is-the-best-place-to-find-a-rockstar-developer-to-bring-it-to-life 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.
    - TristanKromer 16y ago
      Oh...perhaps I should also say that I think we should all put links to quora questions in the wiki where appropriate.