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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.

I vote 'No' simply because it's not my first startup but I am working full time on one

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.

Install all that and your browser is gonna crawl like a snail. Only some are worth having, the rest you can live without.

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.

Started at 16, wasn't an "app", but was an online business that generated more than enough money.

Are you looking specifically just for YC companies? Which position?

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.

Instapaper is your best friend. It'll avoid upvoting links unnecessarily and allow you to read stuff later perfectly fine.

OS X aka Mac for me. Run Parallels for other OS testing.

Google Chrome Dev v12. something

Had several problems, can't remember them all. One that I do remember is it being extremely problematic or slow loading Google Maps mashup base stuff where Safari perfectly just worked.

You need to be honest with him and tell him things aren't working out and that he was originally brought on as a technical cofounder and he hasn't been working out for that role and he wants to switch to being a business cofounder which is not what you need.

Talk to an attorney about something called the Termination of Service agreement, have him sign this agreement along with the Convention Invention Assignment agreement. You'll need to compensate him some dollar amount for signing the agreement in good faith but it'll be the cleanest way to separate and vitally important moving forward.