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Wow... Mountain View, CA is 9k more expensive per year than where I'm living. Heck, it's 8k more than New York. Remind me why shoestring-budget startups are su
by spydez 18y ago
Wow... Mountain View, CA is 9k more expensive per year than where I'm living. Heck, it's 8k more than New York.
Remind me why shoestring-budget startups are supposed to flock there?
- netcan 18y agoPoverty builds character.
- anamax 18y agoBecause MV has resources that those other places don't have. If you can succeed without those resources, MV isn't the place for you. However, if you need them and acquiring them costs more than $9k/year somewhere else, MV is cheaper.
- run4yourlives 18y agoWhich resources are those, exactly?
- ardit33 18y agopeople, duh. I meet smart developers everyday, and have lots of hacker types friends. As the expression goes: You can't swing a dead cat on the bay area without hitting a good engineer/startupper in the head Try that in any other place. You have to swing that a lot harder. If you are trying to build a great startup you live by the talent, and die if you don't have it. Execution is key. Being frugal and cheap is second.
- run4yourlives 18y agoI won't disagree with that, but I do think it's overrated, to be honest.