By "the money", I assume you mean "the investors". Most customers are not in the bay area.
Anyway, here's a startup protip: make a business that is growing revenue like crazy, and investors will give you money no matter where your offices are. Move to SF without a business that is growing revenue like crazy, and they probably won't give you money.
...but you'll be able to take a zipcar to Sand Hill Road for the rejection. That's worth something, right?
I think at this point those who locate in the bay area see getting VC money as success, and whatever comes after as resume padding. Anyone who is ready to build a real fast growing business is not going to go to the one place in the world where the costs are astronomical (except maybe for a small titular HQ with the CEO while the rest of the company is in cleveland or something). Everything is super expensive, and to be honest, there's a lot of investor money, but most of it I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole-- the cost of that money is astronomical as well.
Re:2015 Engineering Salaries Reviewed
by dsfhsdfjkfsd on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @06:07PM
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>make a business that is growing revenue like crazy
...so your protip basically amounts to "make money to make money"?
Thanks, underpants gnomes.
Depending on what your startup is, a lot of your early customers are probably going to be in the Bay Area. But yes, I was referring to the investors.
"Anyway, here's a startup protip: make a business that is growing revenue like crazy"
Really? That's all? And I'm sure that to make my product better, all I have to do is write code with less bugs!
The money is in SF, though. And the money has shown no interest in moving.