Where are silicon valley companies moving? (Los Angeles, San Diego: apartment, condo, townhouse)

[dan596821]

David Sachs (Yammer founder) vs Marc Andreessen discuss future of silicon valley on facebook.

Sacks laid out four reasons for the death of the Valley and its startup culture. Now, in order for startups to be successful, Sacks says entrepreneurs must be able to do the following:

1.Escape attention of major Internet companies (which Sacks says are better run than ever before)
2.Launch and prove a business for ~ $5 million or less (the average seed plus Series A round)
3.Find an idea that can be protected (patented) from big companies once they realize what you're up to.
4.Avoid patent lawsuits.

"How many ideas like that are left?" he asks.

Andreessen's answer to Sacks: "An infinite number -- human creativity is limitless -- which doesn't make it easy, but does mean the opportunity is unending," he writes.

David Sacks: Silicon Valley As We Know It May Be Over - Business Insider

[oldtrader]

Mostly nowhere. They might open satellite offices in other places, but I haven't seen any major tech closing up shop and moving away. HP is doing a lateral move from Cupertino to Palo Alto..

Then you are not keeping up with what is happening. 5 substantial companies leave Ca every week, and that includes Tech companies.

[EdJS]

Originally Posted by oldtrader

Then you are not keeping up with what is happening. 5 substantial companies leave Ca every week, and that includes Tech companies.

Name some of those substantial companies that have left in recent weeks. Especially some tech companies.

[kdog]

Originally Posted by EdJS

Name some of those substantial companies that have left in recent weeks. Especially some tech companies.

<< crickets chirping >>

[NickB1967]

Originally Posted by dan596821

Whoa!!! tekka-maki really knows how to talk out of both sides of his mouth. He wrote so many lies, distortions, and false reasoning that there is no reason to dispute them all. Rest assured if you are liberal to moderate you will not enjoy Texas. While Austin may be a liberal oasis in a sea of crazy conservatives, you must still live under Republican rule. And it will affect your life.

Guns on campus. Anti-abortion. Deregulation. Tax breaks for corporations and the rich. Screwing the middle class. Anti-immigrant. All the things Republicans like to do

Is this what passes for thought among the Commiecrats?

[dan596821]

Commiecrats??? Name calling??? JKY

If you dont believe companies are leaving california, then you are dumber than you look.

[cardinal2007]

It looks like San Francisco is showing up as the answer to this question, Pinterest being one of those "cool" startups that moved from Palo Alto to SF, but there are others, San Francisco is making an effort to attract startups with favorable tax breaks, much like other states like to do for companies in general.
It has certainly become common for states instead of trying to make the environment favorable to make new jobs, just try to steal jobs from another state.

But for the most part it seems companies are growing their presence in SV, Amazon is taking over several buildings in Moffett Towers, and Microsoft already took over 1 building there. Both of these companies are based in Washington state, and seem to want to tap the talent here, eventhough they probably have less leverage in keeping or hiring employees down here.

[dan596821]

I never thought of moving to other area of the bay. What are the tech centers in san fran?

[dan596821]

America?s top 100 high-tech centers - The Business Journals

top 30 high tech centers sorted by # of jobs

New York City 327,098
Los Angeles 307,001
Washington 241,264
Boston 183,456
San Francisco-Oakland 175,261
Seattle 166,219
San Jose 163,882
Dallas-Fort Worth 156,568
Philadelphia 127,037
Chicago 117,271
San Diego 109,991
Atlanta 100,783
Detroit 100,119
Houston 95,421
Phoenix 81,446
Baltimore 64,957
Miami-Fort Lauderdale 62,443
Minneapolis-St. Paul 58,258
Austin 54,510
Portland, Ore. 47,031
Denver 46,493
St. Louis 41,622
Pittsburgh 40,694
Tampa-St. Petersburg 37,808
Orlando 37,016
Kansas City 34,656
Indianapolis 33,512
Cleveland 31,663
Raleigh 31,433
Sacramento 31,350

[cardinal2007]

I wonder about those statistics, the sites I've seen all have San Jose area with over 200K tech jobs.
CIO.com - Geek America: The Top 10 U.S. Cities for Technology Jobs - 5. Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas

I guess the question is always, what counts as a tech job, and what counts as Silicon Valley, some places list SM Co, and SC Co, some only SC Co.

In truth San Jose, and Silicon Valley had the biggest job growth of any metro area in the US in 2012.

Cities With The Fastest Job Growth: Study Puts San Jose, Calif. At Number One Spot

Other areas for job growth include our neighbor to the north, San Francisco MSA.

The big 3 Texas cities, Houston, Austin, and Dallas in that order.

So for any jobs leaving there seem to be more jobs created, in reality I imagine a lot of people are squeezed out by newcomers though, as high tech employment seems to be going up a lot.

Silicon Valley job growth has reached dot-com boom levels, report says - San Jose Mercury News