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So essentially: build a product or service and move it and yourself to San Francisco?
by mstade 7y ago
So essentially: build a product or service and move it and yourself to San Francisco?
- gumby 7y agoProbably not. The point is to be "a big fish in a small pond". SF and Silicon Valley are both very big ponds, so if you're not there take advantage of the fact, playing to your strengths. One option is "be in the local pool" (a Netherlands investor is probably more interested in companies she can simply visit and where she speaks the same language of the people there). Be talked about in the local startup & tech community. Talk about the actual results you're getting ("we're getting 10s of organic signups and Twilio recommends us to their customers -- without them even talking to us"). The other option is "be in the nerd community pool": if your SAAS is aimed at "metering microservices to manage service cost" (have no idea if that example is really a "thing") then make sure the founders are usefully active on the important microservices blogs, write some authoritative articles for the sites, contribute non-trivial code (even if it's something you need have have in place anyway for your solution to be useful) to some relevant GitHub repos in the area.
- kenneth 7y agoMoving to SF is not at all necessary (I don't even live in SF). But it certainly helps. If you can build the right network without being in SF, all the better. But if you're struggling with that, perhaps moving to SF will help.