The Startup Magazine

APRIL 9, 2020

Earthquakes like the 1994 Northridge quake in Los Angeles and the 1989 Bay Area quake claimed lives and destroyed buildings, leading to stricter regulations. California has been a national leader in codes that protect building occupants from seismic events, but there is a great deal of work remaining to be done.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

In addition, we’ve recruited a host of mentors , including folks from Google and the cloud computing firm SalesForce; Stanford Law School; and veteran State Department employees now engaged in studies, research or retirement in the Bay Area. The time difference between Washington and California often doesn’t help.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2019

I was honored to give the commencement speech at the University of California Santa Cruz, right down the road from the ranch. Rather than my usual talks about innovation and entrepreneurship I shared a few lessons learned after serving seven years as a public official on the California Coastal Commission.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 6, 2018

Semil Shah recently wrote a post titled Investing Outside The Bay Area. In it, he talked about his own experience expanding his investment horizons beyond the bay area, but also mentioned some other folks, including us and USV, where he did a quick analysis of the location of our partner funds.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Some of these are generalizable and our friend Semil Shah does a nice job covering several in his post “ Investing Outside the Bay Area.” ” Phase 1 Bay Area + NYC (2013-14). Phase 2 California + NYC (2015-2017). Yes we did!

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2020

This place in California is the center of technology. And Silicon Valley itself, as the name suggests, is a valley – a region in Northern California in the famous Santa Clara Valley. There used to be the US Navy’s Moffet Field where the valley is currently located. Stanford started the establishment of its services in the area.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

There’s a question we ask ourselves when investing in a startup outside of the Bay Area: is their location a positive for the company? We believe great companies can be built in many locations – not just beloved Silicon Valley – but we do want to articulate *why* a specific company benefits from its geo.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Bend, Oregon is an ideal case study because of its size, location and entrepreneurial characteristics. Here’s Part 1 of Dino’s story…. Startups in Bend.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

In addition, we’ve recruited a host of mentors , including folks from Google and the cloud computing firm SalesForce; Stanford Law School; and veteran State Department employees now engaged in studies, research or retirement in the Bay Area. The time difference between Washington and California often doesn’t help.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2020

To locals, Pennsylvania’s largest metro area is simply “Philly”. Philadelphia has two huge positives for startups tapping the local talent pool: a diverse metro population of more than six million and a host of area universities. You won’t find another major city within a 100-200 mile drive outside of the Bay Area.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2013

metropolitan area, including SendGrid , Ping Identity , Rally Software (which went public on NASDAQ this year; RALY ), Sympoz , Datalogix , Newsgator , TrackVia , Convercent , Printfection , rentbits , and hundreds more. percent, typical tech worker income tax in Denver is half of that in California (9.3 Location, location, location.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

Digital Response (USDR) CalFresh Onward California Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) "President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1935-1944" SF New Deal donation/volunteer page Transcript for Out of the Crisis #15: SF New Deal Eric Ries : This is Out of the Crisis, I'm Eric Ries.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. California Dreaming.

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Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

billion invested in 374 startups in that area. Southern California. This region is well-known as the home of Silicon Valley, as well as a growing tech hub in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the Bay Area, there’s a very robust tech ecosystem, with an eye on more gender diversity in the VC sector.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

” It seems to either be “The Peninsula” or “San Francisco” or even just “The Bay Area.” Our Bay Area brethren think, “you can have your beach, LA. Of course if you’re already known you could put your name or location on your fund name. Not derivative.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2012

Located in the Bay Area of Northern California (though only a select few know the exact location), Google X Labs has a purported list of 100 projects in development that delve into the realm of science fiction, the products of which may just change how we interact with our technology and each other in the coming decades.

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Hippoland

MARCH 1, 2011

But let’s be honest, there are some unspoken big big big problems that make it terrible for the Bay Area web startup community. Not to mention that as much as I hate MASSholes, California drivers plain and simply can’t drive — slow people always hog the left lane with their granny-styled driving.

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Up and Running

MARCH 31, 2010

We moved from Palo Alto, California to Eugene, Oregon. Or other areas of the U.S.? I have another friend who moved from Italy to the San Francisco Bay area to be where business is better. But there’s a lot less angel investment in Oregon than in California. And we’re glad we did. What do you think?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Do we need more regulation in this area or less? So I've been able to move to another location with my partner and another city, I should say. And the executive team is going to set an example by never coming into one office in one location, because I think that would create a negative incentive for others to follow us there.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Only California and New York have a few more, and maybe not for long. I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. What’s bringing them here?

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Supercities, such as the San Francisco Bay Area, have traditionally attracted lots of newcomers into the network because that’s where the jobs, the labor pool, and the prospects for economic growth lie. coasts housed 9 of the top 10 areas for average earnings (compared to only 3 in 1980). Furthermore, as of 2016, the U.S.

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Up and Running

JULY 21, 2016

Silicon Valley, California, USA. Coming in at number one (which should surprise absolutely no one) is Silicon Valley, California’s resident hub for startup and entrepreneurial innovation. While our first city on this list isn’t even a proper “city,” but rather a region which comprises several Bay Area cities, its spot is well-deserved.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

I am very lucky that is has two huge windows and views of the East Bay hills. My parents and my brother live in Southern California. He was talking about what he thought needed to happen in California and the fact that every state was going to need the kind of expertise was able to muster and probably wouldn't have access to that.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

Co-located in Shanghai and San Francisco, the AirPop product brand is a line of sensing, high-efficiency air pollution accessories for 4 billion+ people breathing pervasive ambient air pollution. AirPop attended Startup Grind , Rock Health Summit and Startup Health Conference in 2017, all in the Bay Area.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Google has a sizable presence in Ontario’s Kitchener-Waterloo area. Waterloo, a small city with a population of just 550,000 , is located sixty miles west of Toronto. It’s no wonder why Waterloo acts as such an incredibly fertile area for startup growth. 25 best startup ecosystem in the world.

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Up and Running

MAY 29, 2017

I’ve also seen thriving corporations franchise their locations only to watch the business fail in less than three months because the new owners eliminated the systems that were driving the success. I knew our training system was effective, but I didn’t realize how effective it was until my location was franchised.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JANUARY 15, 2010

I want to say first that I went to school down in southern California and I still love it down there however for my industry, technology, I love it up here. Let’s talk about the cons of San Francisco Bay area: Expensive housing. No good public transportation for the whole area. SF is up to an hour away.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They found ways to support longterm care facilities, homeless shelters, and other locations serving those most at risk, all while schools, their main source of revenue, were closed. I think for a long time it was just not an area that schools were focused on. Rev Foods rapidly scaled up. Kristin Groos Richmond : It has been.

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Jason Ball

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Greetings from California! If you haven’t seen, smelled and tasted what the Bay Area is like, you have no idea what I’m saying- and you won’t until you do. I was delighted to learn Huddle had raised $10M from Matrix Partners and had recently re-located to the Bay Area from London.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 16, 2013

This part of the brain is located behind your eye, where the optic nerve fibers cross, which allows your brain to use cues from light in your environment to help you keep track of time: Light and genetics are the two main factors that help your body tell time, establishing a natural a cycle of energy levels (a circadian rhythm) throughout your day.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Google has a sizable presence in Ontario’s Kitchener-Waterloo area. Waterloo, a small city with a population of just 550,000 , is located sixty miles west of Toronto. It’s no wonder why Waterloo acts as such an incredibly fertile area for startup growth. 25 best startup ecosystem in the world.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Remove any of these essential ingredients, and you can find examples of groups gone bad: the Bay of Pigs invasion fiasco , market bubbles, and pretty much every one of Dilbert s team meetings. Take a look at some of the social science research in this area, like the Asch conformity experiments. Anyway, back to fit.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Tal lives and works in Los Angeles, California. These past few years I’ve been living in sunny- often too sunny- California, first in the bay area and more recently in L.A. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we’ll take notice. Please tell us about yourself.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Currently located in the historic Southern Pacific building at One Market Street, Salesforce has plans to occupy a twenty-seven-floor tower at 350 Mission across from the new Transbay Terminal in 2015. As the Bay Area’s tech sector has evolved, so have the terms used to identify—and vilify—its workforce.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

If youre in the Bay Area, you have the opportunity to see it live: hes giving the talk at the Computer History Museum next Thursday, November 20 : Hear the story of how two major events – WWII and the Cold War – and one Stanford professor set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2011

Certification Courses: If you want to jumpstart your education (and this is in addition to the above, not a replacement) consider taking a course with Market Motive (Disclosure: I'm the co-founder), University of British Columbia or the University of California at Irvine or Universite Laval. Craigslist (82 in SF Bay Area) et al.

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