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Yeah I get that distance issue. At least I’m in Wilmington when I visit family there so I’ll see what’s over in Burlington next time I’m out. I recall going to a devops meetup at Datadog when they first opened their doors in Boston. It was a nice change-up from all the ones run by consulting partner firms.

Thanks! I went to the relaunched Python meetup group event in LA to talk to their org leads. Nice peeps. They were looking for speakers and places to host as well. Just had it at a beer garden, which seems to be a popular “venue” right now.

Yes, I’m looking at joining a new space and part of my selection process is asking if I can have events there (without paying). More neutral territory is great.

However, someone’s got to get the pizza bill! I’ll probably cover it to start and maybe reach out to dev tool / B2B startups to see if they are interested in helping out.

The old days were great for tech events. Amazing speakers in every major city. All tech cos and startups fighting to sponsor and host events in their offices. I remember getting some great meals and bridge views at Google in SF at the HTML5 group, hah. If you were a poor, bootstrapped hacker in the city those days, you could pretty much get fed for free and begged to quit your startup and take a job most days of the week.

I’ve just been given the reins myself to be the organizer for a large (defunct) tech group. I’m still figuring out exactly what will bring people back and kickstart things. From my discussions with organizers in other groups, they are having a difficult time finding companies willing to host. Concerns about liability even though the pandemic scare is over still persist, time demand on internal employees and lack of rapid hiring are big blockers. The environment has definitely changed.

I really hope the pendulum will swing back again.

Thank you very much for the reply. I forgot to add:

What considerations should we take (if any) if we intend to support them coming to the states and becoming employees after turning profitable or a successful funding round.

What’s the best way for a U.S. startup to have a contract worker (developer) that is from, works and lives in Mexico and also offering them some type of equity or stock options?

How do we structure things to minimize and efficiently handle any taxation they incur?

Any difference in other countries, say South Africa or Poland?

For a US citizen who decides now to launch a startup and apply (late) to YC that includes a cofounder that is NOT currently in the US and NOT a US citizen, what steps would you recommend be taken to get them here before interviews / acceptance / start date? (Probably not possible now, I assume)

Also taking into consideration the comments some have had regarding a potential "remote" YC 2020 summer batch...may it not matter?

So you officially love React again? :)

Me too? 3rd times the charm?