Bad mentality. This community should not make or break your decision to move forward with an idea. There are good reasons to swing one direction or the other but this is not one of them.
I grew up in Portland. Moved to Seattle after Portland. Finally to San Francisco after Seattle.
I will say the article is full of bullshit. Yes, cost of living is drastically lower and the quality of life and the surrounding is not bad at all in any way. But a Silicon Valley / SF? It is not.
If you're like me and you've lived in all 3 areas and grew up spending a huge chunk of your life in each of the 3, you'll quickly realize it's not even close in terms of the culture and resources the bay offers. I can understand the sentiment if you have a family (spouse and kids) and want to find affordable housing and all but lets not kid ourselves, that's not the same as arguing a tech centric hub worthy of comparison to the valley.
Disclaimer: I am not associated with True Ventures in any way.
However, I have been a long time customer of Wells Fargo and would vouch for them. I love their customer service and have done both personal and business banking with them. They're headquartered in San Francisco as well and are available almost everywhere nationwide. Hope this helps.
I thought for a second that this poll was way too vague and didn't properly capture the range of options that would yield interesting feedback. I was going to fix it.. But I decided to keep coding instead.
For apartments or housing, look on PadMapper. If you like city living and the likes of it, and those things are important to you, stick with San Francisco. If you don't care, don't drink, don't do any of those things, startup life is better in the Valley but that's about all there is in the Valley (personal opinion of course). I live in the Valley (disclaimer).
That said, if you choose San Francisco, the city is small enough so that it doesn't matter where you are but if you want to be as close to the startup scene as possible, SOMA (district) is probably your best bet. If you want convenience, Richmond is close to a lot of food places that you can walk to on foot.
If you opt for the valley route, being as close as possible to University Ave in Palo Alto is probably what you're after.
The window of opportunity to sell a company is narrow and if he waits, the buyer may move on and another one may not come for awhile or offer the same term. Of course it depends on how far off he is from closing the deal but I assume OP is asking because its not anywhere near the one year mark.
It's not an unnecessary upvote—I thought I made it clear that this behavior was part of the site's design. I rarely upvote stories at all, so stories which were compelling enough in the first couple of paragraphs to cause me to want to read them later are worthy of an upvote, in my eyes.
I think a much more disturbing trend is rush-upvoting everything that comes out of e.g. TechCrunch.
I save the HN post itself, not the endlink. It's better in case you want to comment rather than go straight to the article. And since you saved the HN link, you can always easily navigate to the article later. I don't read in instapaper itself, I go direct to link. Instapaper is just a really efficient bookmarking tool for me.
