Sergey Brin: Come to Silicon Valley to scale a business, but not to start one

Re:Sergey Brin: Come to Silicon Valley to scale a business, ... by tenkabuto on Monday June 27, 2016 @12:18PM (#11987162)

You don't speak to this exactly, but Brin might as well just suggest to not start a company in California, which demands a lot of legal and tax paperwork to be done right from a business's beginning.

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Re:Sergey Brin: Come to Silicon Valley to scale a business, ... by hodgesrm on Monday June 27, 2016 @12:53PM (#11987478)

For tech companies that paperwork is really not that big a deal. First, you need to get tax and governance stuff right no matter where you start if you plan on taking funding later on. Second, basic company setup is kind of a wash between California and Delaware. (At least that's the advice I have gotten in the past.)

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Re:Sergey Brin: Come to Silicon Valley to scale a business, ... by xiaoma on Monday June 27, 2016 @01:12PM (#11987623)

Not really. Look at Facebook.

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Re:Sergey Brin: Come to Silicon Valley to scale a business, ... by vidarh on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @07:42AM (#11992884)

Complexity of basic company setup is low enough that it's basically a wash. Delaware has benefits later, due to legal environment and tax, but the main benefits of Delaware won't matter to you until you get big.

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