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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

You have a runway that would make San Diego Airport’s look long. In the startup journey if you have success in your early product launches, fund raising and PR you’re likely to get “inbound interest” from likely acquirers. It’s 2003 and VCs aren’t exactly lining up to fund startup businesses.

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California Startup Gold – bring it here to scale it

Scalable Startup

The new hot spots are San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, the east bay, etc. San Francisco - San Francisco has actually successfully co-opted the Silicon Valley magic and even surpassed it in some ways (Twitter, Salesforce.com); it’s again a very hot place to be right now and this will continue.