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Comment by eli_gottlieb | Hacker News Reader

I was going to say, myself: if they want more workers, they could try moving out of the San Francisco-Seattle bubble. Portland, Boston-Cambridge, Texas, Raleigh and New York all have good supplies of tech workers who would love to work on Silicon Valley-grade projects earning Silicon Valley-grade salaries but who won't abandon our entire lives to move to Silicon Valley.

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I'm in New York and I'd say that it also has the same problems that Silicon Valley does, these days. Places like Austin and Raleigh seem like very viable destinations, though.

Lets deal with reality folks..99% of start-ups are not at stages were they pay the going salary rates..

Has nothing to do with supply and demand or anything else.

Or famous Jason Calacanis blow hard likes to claim they do not want to work..that does not work either..

what works is transparency about at what funding stage you are at to the potential employee..

It's not about supply and demand? It's about transparency? It's about "funding stage" ?

I don't get it.

To me it sounds like he's trying to say that the vast majority of startups aren't in a position to offer lavish wages to obtain talent; they're still trying to receive funding to get off the ground. He suggests that the companies should be transparent with the state that "they don't have money yet, but we're hoping to soon" as a pitch that'll draw workers?

> if they want more workers, they could try moving out of the San Francisco-Seattle bubble

"more workers" isn't the only problem.

And, even if it is, do those other people have enough of the relevant workers?

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