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Re:Landlords are trying not to rent to startups in San Franc... by mooreds on Thursday July 30, 2015 @08:38PM (#9979241)
This strategy needs a name. Maybe "The SF funding tentacle"?
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Re:Landlords are trying not to rent to startups in San Franc... by ectoplasm on Thursday July 30, 2015 @08:43PM (#9979267)
"Bait and switch"?
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Re:Landlords are trying not to rent to startups in San Franc... by DannoHung on Thursday July 30, 2015 @09:24PM (#9979398)
The East Texas Shuffle
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Re:Landlords are trying not to rent to startups in San Franc... by dctoedt on Friday July 31, 2015 @06:40AM (#9980992)
Austin is considered Central Texas.

(East Texas is famous, or notorious, as where patent trolls like to file their lawsuits.)

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Re:Landlords are trying not to rent to startups in San Franc... by DannoHung on Friday July 31, 2015 @05:12PM (#9984524)
Yeah, I was riffing on the idea of finding a favorable municipality for business reasons and actually running your company where you actually want to run it.

Although given the history of this sort of thing, I guess it'd be more appropriate to call it the Maryland Shuffle.

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Re:Landlords are trying not to rent to startups in San Franc... by klean92 on Friday July 31, 2015 @03:08AM (#9980356)
The siphon
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