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Startup Risk and Fear

• timr 13y ago
  "for every 100 folks who fear this, there is someone who quits their stable job, moves out of the city to a not-so-great part of Oakland, grows a beard, and starts a company by living with his cofounders, and tries to build a prototype with his savings before thinking about more elaborate plans." This just floors me. You folks realize that not even five years ago, SF was the place where people were living with their co-founders in a not-so-great part of town, right? The smart money said that you should be in the valley. San Francisco is done. Put a fork in it. People are renting bedrooms for $2000 a month (you used to be able to get an apartment here for that much money). It's too expensive now. Move to Oakland (or hey...how about the valley?) and enjoy the luxury of living in a place where all of the young, creative, innovative people have gathered.