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Re:Joist lays off 60 employees in Toronto as company relocat... by ska on Thursday June 23, 2016 @01:04PM (#11962577)
It's not quite that simple - for example Canada has a number of advantages and good programs for early stage startups. What is true is there isn't much access to SV style VC funds, so if your model is dependent on that, you have a problem. Other sources can be pretty good though.
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Re:Joist lays off 60 employees in Toronto as company relocat... by Apocryphon on Thursday June 23, 2016 @01:24PM (#11962769)
What all of these tech hubs need is to popularize their own style of growth that can contrast favorably with SV's '80s Wall Street-esque brand of maniac growth chasing. Once a city figures out how to do that, then the "must be in SV" meme will weaken.
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