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Third: There is oil money here. Lots of 'old' money. If you know how to use that advice to your advantage, you'll win the Texas game. Intriguing. Explain. I'v

Third: There is oil money here. Lots of 'old' money. If you know how to use that advice to your advantage, you'll win the Texas game. Intriguing. Explain. I've been studying geography for a few months to try to pick out where the future is. Austin seems a strong candidate. Boston and Seattle could also swing back into #2. What TX has going for it is that (a) it has a lot of money, (b) it has a lot of smart people, and (c) it's actually not that conservative in the cities. (I grew up in rural PA, so I know all about the fact of red/blue being meaningless, except on a few issues, at a state-by-state level.) Fifth: Texans do not like leaving Texas. My university colleagues have settled for SQL CRUD jobs in Austin/Dallas. Data science and bioinformatics is a common degree around these parts. They would rather do CRUD than have to leave Texas. Seems like a great place to move when you're ready to be a founder (i.e. if you can raise money) because there's a lot of talent. However, this would go against people who are looking to be employees, because there's more competition. Is that an accurate assessment?

JohnDotAwesome 13y ago
Not much oil money. A lot of gas money. The Barnett Shale being one of the big cash crops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Shale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Shale
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ambiate 13y ago
Most of my friends seem to be bankers, on a board, or loan officers of some sort. This was not by intention. It just seems everyone is connected and has their fingers dipped in money. It is insanely easy to build connections. I had an oil company offering a huge contract for a simple mobile reporting app on pipeline issues.(Also, Seattle is a great #2) Oddly, there is not actually that much competition. As I said, most of the people I knew fell into CRUD jobs around their original homes. From a typical perspective: Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Level 3, TI, etc are always hiring new people. There are many manufacturing companies here for the electrically/computing engineer inclined. Level 3 is scoping out people from our building on a daily basis trying to buyout talent. As far as start ups, I figure your main audience is on the wire. It does not matter if you're in TX, CA, NY, etc. Mentor over the wire. Audience over the wire. Testing over the wire. Servers spread over the world on the wire.

JohnDotAwesome 13y ago

Not much oil money. A lot of gas money. The Barnett Shale being one of the big cash crops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Shale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Shale

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ambiate 13y ago

Most of my friends seem to be bankers, on a board, or loan officers of some sort. This was not by intention. It just seems everyone is connected and has their fingers dipped in money. It is insanely easy to build connections. I had an oil company offering a huge contract for a simple mobile reporting app on pipeline issues.(Also, Seattle is a great #2) Oddly, there is not actually that much competition. As I said, most of the people I knew fell into CRUD jobs around their original homes. From a typical perspective: Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Level 3, TI, etc are always hiring new people. There are many manufacturing companies here for the electrically/computing engineer inclined. Level 3 is scoping out people from our building on a daily basis trying to buyout talent. As far as start ups, I figure your main audience is on the wire. It does not matter if you're in TX, CA, NY, etc. Mentor over the wire. Audience over the wire. Testing over the wire. Servers spread over the world on the wire.