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Yeah, so what's the workaround to that 12 months? When you file simply state you were working on it 12 months prior.

Not hard to game that at all. I'm sure business ethics will prevail though.

Imagine if the government did its job and protected labor instead of capital. What a world we could live in in the "richest" country in the world.

£26 for Domino's. Sounds like he got bent over pretty hard. I can't imagine spending ~$37 on fantastic pizza, much less Domino's.

Yeah, I saw that on the NYTimes. Glad they did it before it fell into the ocean :-)

70 story high rise in Atherton and Belmont! That will be the day :-)

I quite liked the Peninsula. SF wasn't really my cup of tea. God forbid people like me that lived on the Cliffs of Despair (Pacifica) and were relatively happy.

Sales reset the property taxes on properties. It was one of a few reasons I didn't buy a home in the Bay Area a few years back. Probably should have, my buddy that bought his house for 500k in the city is sitting on probably 1.2-1.4m now. Not bad for 3-4 years appreciation.

I live in Oklahoma currently. I have done 5 of the startups in OK, one in CA (SF) and one in Texas.

You make choices in life and there are tradeoffs. I don't have kids nor do I anticipate having any. If they come, so be it. I partially left the Bay Area because I couldn't see even raising a hypothetical family there. That, the sticker shock never completely wore off and I never donned my rose colored glasses either :-)

I can afford to do it until the day I die. I've set myself up rather nicely in that regard. I'd be retired already if it weren't for my startups & first marriage. But being retired in your mid 30s sounds boring as well (I'm in my 40s now). However, I waffle on that position, so take it with a grain of salt.

Depends on how you define success and failure. I've had 7 failed startups (#8 is in the process of failing at the moment). I consider them all failures because I didn't end up with FU money. Funny thing is startup 6 & 7 really got me close.

Although, even if I won a billion dollar lottery, I'd still move on to startup #9. Half the fun is in the building anyway :-)

American Indian tribes/nations have this down too. Chickasaw is booming here in Oklahoma. That doesn't count all the casinos where money is flowing out the back doors as well.