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Re:Why sclerotic California hasn't yet stifled the extraordi... by abstractbill on Saturday May 29, 2010 @11:55AM (#1388850)
1) What company would you pick? Is justin.tv very atypical of current Silicon Valley startups in some obvious way I've missed?

2) I've been at justin.tv since long before we were big enough to have a finance arm. I may have little idea of how those policies can hurt really big companies, but the interesting thing about Silicon Valley isn't the big companies - it's the startups.

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Re:Why sclerotic California hasn't yet stifled the extraordi... by Rod on Saturday May 29, 2010 @12:35PM (#1388901)
1) I would pick no company because the SV is not a homogeneous habitat. You have capital-intensive startups founded by PhD's trying to capitalize on 20 years of research... and you have startups bootstrapped out of lunchmoney by a couple of college dropouts who believe their new app will be a killer. Seriously, technology is more than the web.

2) generally speaking, imposing constraints can only decrease the maximum of the objective function one is trying to optimize; I did not say that such policies do hurt, I suggested it's not hard to see how they can hurt.

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