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No Such Thing As A Free Meal? Employers May Be Prohibited From Offering Free Food To Workers

YoungUpstarts

In an attempt to thwart this trend, Mountain View and San Francisco have proposed local rules and ordinances aimed at putting an end to employer-provided free meals. The project-specific rule prohibits companies from subsidizing employee meals by more than 50 percent. San Francisco Rejects Ban On New Office Cafeterias.

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Austin in San Francisco

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

When people can devise their own lifestyle, career, and mobility more than at any other time in history, it’s interesting to ask how a startup can support and encourage its employees beyond a paycheck. So when Austin said he wanted to move to San Francisco from eponymous Austin (Texas), supporting his move was a no-brainer.

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QuestionPro Moves its Headquarters from San Francisco to Austin

SiliconHills

QuestionPro has moved its headquarters from San Francisco to Austin. The company, which has 200 employees including 15 in Austin, creates online survey and insights solutions software. The post QuestionPro Moves its Headquarters from San Francisco to Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Scaling from maker to manager

Version One Ventures

But as the start-up scales and you hire employees, your day-to-day is taken over by more managerial tasks, like hiring and managing people, running company meetings, etc. For example, at Version One we organize approximately ten founder dinners per year in locations like San Francisco, NYC, and Toronto.

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It's time for lean philanthropy: a case study

Startup Lessons Learned

Since then, in about 3 months, we’ve fed over 170,000 people and injected over $1mm into the local economy in San Francisco and Detroit. By doing so, we’d keep restaurants busy (and their employees working), inject funds into the local community, and ease the burden on food banks.

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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

ReadWriteStart

United States San Francisco Bay Home to Silicon Valley, which houses some of the most prominent tech startups and multinational firms, the San Francisco Bay area remains one of the top startup hubs in the U.S. Yes, the Ode of the tech valley has taken a hit — and we look forward to when they are back on top.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

These people may be permanent employees, or they may work on a project-by-project basis, but they are managed very much as if they’re working right alongside you. At that time, Automattic had just 50 employees spread across 12 US states and ten countries. Hiring local talent will force you to pay more than you can afford.