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Changing the narrative on distributed teams in Silicon Valley

Version One Ventures

However, the pressure of sky-high housing costs, salaries and competition for suitable candidates is causing start-ups and investors to rethink their approach to distributed teams. Among our Silicon Valley-based portfolio companies, not a single company past “A” does not have a distributed team. Slack, Zoom).

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How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and cost me dearly

The Next Web

Editors Note: This is a guest post from Jeff Keacher , an engineer in Denver, Colorado. Distribution of visitors by browser. You can find him pretending to be an entrepreneur by fixing blurry photos or extolling the virtues of backup for photographers. Also, he loves playing hockey. You can follow him on Twitter @teuobk. .

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Will the Bay Area’s cost structure compress the precious runway these newco’s have? Redfin specifically identifies Denver, San Antonio, and Houston as the next hubs newer generations will seek out. (I Will folks be able to buy a house and raise their families here? Haystack Portfolio Data.

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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

It costs twice as much to generate the same results from the same marketing tactics. Meaning events, magazines, blogs, they read, so you could distribute your content there. So it gives you content, multiple distribution channels, and you start building this audience. John Jantsch (26:48): I am in the mountains west of Denver.

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

They were providing low-cost healthy meals for schools across the country and, before the crisis, were delivering two million federally reimbursable school and community meals per week nationwide. So here we are today designing, producing, distributing close to three million meals per week across 400 cities. So it's been fast-scale.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Photo Credit: Rick Denver. Thanks to Rick Denver, Fish and Coral ! #10- As it grew from a one-man consulting agency to the widely distributed team that it is now, it has been embedded in our business model that we will always serve a purpose, as an agency and individually at any given time. 9- Passion for aquariums.

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Why I invest outside the Silicon Valley

Hippoland

1) Silicon Valley / San Francisco is too expensive With the high cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area these days, a lot startup capital must now go towards founders’ rent. But, previously the cost-of-living delta was not as great as it is today. I need to spend more time in Denver/Boulder, Salt Lake City, and Austin.