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It kind of depends. Opening a restaurant is an absolutely hostile experience -- there are numerous articles discussing people's experiences. Opening a tech co
by x0x0 4y ago
It kind of depends.
Opening a restaurant is an absolutely hostile experience -- there are numerous articles discussing people's experiences.
Opening a tech company in SF is very smooth sailing in the small (interaction with the government, registering, paying taxes, etc). Source: did it.
Where SF fucks tech companies extraordinarily hard is housing costs (insane), commute times / options (even more insane, shockingly incompetent), and the horrible provision of education, a major concern for parents.
- dopeboy 4y agoGiven this experience, would you start a company in SF again? If not, where?
- x0x0 4y agoI'd definitely do it in sf again. I'd have a 4 person + one large conference room office for sales and meetings. Everybody else would be remote, with individual teams roughly colocated, and hence capable of 3-5 days/month in person. The problem with sf is good fucking luck convincing anybody to move there if they're over, say, 25; or are married; or have kids; etc. One glance at the housing prices and they're gone. If they can work through the housing prices they glance at the school situation, price in $30k/year of private education, and then they're really gone.