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Old 11-28-2020, 12:25 PM
 
Location: Provo, UT
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https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/n...-tech-hub.html

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/i...b-says-report/

These two articles seem to say so. I am from the Bay Area, and I'm familiar with how hard it is to start or run a business there.

Austin is growing, and Texas is considered to be way more business friendly.
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Old 11-28-2020, 01:20 PM
 
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For startups, maybe.. ..but for actual innovation & STEM, SF and the Bay area will be ahead of us for a considerable period of time by incomparable margins. I personally don't see us becoming more than a peer city in terms of tech. The term 'silicon valley' tends to get thrown around to just about any major city that throws up a Google or Amazon facility. Although I do believe on a per-capita basis, Austin is doing better in tech than most cities. Still though, Much of the work we have here has been handed down from either the Bay Area, Seattle, or Boston. We do have our own home grown companies like Solarwinds for example, but much of what Austin designed on its own isn't widely known in the grand scheme of things, except for those particularly in the field.

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Old 11-28-2020, 02:08 PM
 
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Post is about 15 years too late.
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Old 11-28-2020, 02:20 PM
 
Location: Provo, UT
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Post is about 15 years too late.
I guess, because there is already a Silicon Hills (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Hills). This could replace the one in the Bay Area, right?
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Old 11-28-2020, 02:50 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX via San Antonio, TX
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Post is about 15 years too late.
Could not agree more. This has been debated over and over again. Both sides are old and stale.
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Old 11-28-2020, 02:52 PM
 
Location: Houston/Austin, TX
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My answer is no. Well Austin is probably second only to Northern California in tech jobs, it barely has any actual company is headquartered there. Of course they still have thousands and thousands of tech jobs coming in, but it doesn’t control the industry like Northern California does not even close.
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Old 11-28-2020, 05:34 PM
 
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My answer is no. Well Austin is probably second only to Northern California in tech jobs, it barely has any actual company is headquartered there. Of course they still have thousands and thousands of tech jobs coming in, but it doesn’t control the industry like Northern California does not even close.
We actually have quite a few headquarters both specific to tech and non-tech, they are just not the widely known companies like Google, PayPal, eBay, Amazon, ect.

Dell
Whole Foods
Amy's Icecream
Solar Winds
Asure Software
Freescale Semiconductor
Illumitex
Yeti
Vrbo
Spiceworks
Silicon Labs
Cirrus Logic
National Instruments
Planview
Temple Inland
Honestech

That stated, I agree that Austin does not control the tech industry. From my experience so far in the field here in Austin, it acts more like a satellite city to places like San Fran, Seattle, Boston, NYC, ect where projects are seemingly shared between.
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Old 11-28-2020, 08:10 PM
 
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https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/n...-tech-hub.html

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/i...b-says-report/

These two articles seem to say so. I am from the Bay Area, and I'm familiar with how hard it is to start or run a business there.

Austin is growing, and Texas is considered to be way more business friendly.
Not going to happen. All the huge established tech companies throw off experienced engineers that start new companies. We have several orders of magnitude less tech.
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Old 12-01-2020, 10:29 AM
 
Location: Austin
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Austin seems to be attracting all kinds of businesses from other parts of the country. Not just tech.

Perhaps because our republican state government is friendly to businesses, big and small, as you said and has a long history of supporting personal freedoms.
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Old 12-01-2020, 12:35 PM
 
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Austin seems to be attracting all kinds of businesses from other parts of the country. Not just tech.

Perhaps because our republican state government is friendly to businesses, big and small, as you said and has a long history of supporting personal freedoms.
idk what to feel about it TBH. Business growth is good undoubtedly but some of me feels Texas is a little 'too' tolerant on businesses and job growth while almost completely ignoring job quality aspects pertaining to actual employees and citizens. I could be wrong, but that's kind of the vibe I get with all the corporate relocations running away from the increasing rules and regulations of democratic states to republican states. Georgia is similar in this regard. I personally believe neither party has a perfect model.

That stated, California lost over 200,000 companies over the last decade yet their GDP still increases year over year with San Francisco still pretty much leading the nation in GDP, and most disposable incomes despite how insanely expensive it is to live there, so I feel there's more to it than just job growth.

I also feel Austin metro in general seems to have the best work/life balance of all the major Texan metro's.
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