{"id":48049,"date":"2013-05-13T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=48049"},"modified":"2013-05-13T02:05:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T10:05:33","slug":"guide-to-navigating-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/guide-to-navigating-silicon-valley","title":{"rendered":"A Canadian Startup’s Beginner Guide to Navigating Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Silicon Valley is a land of opportunity for thousands of startups, but it’s also cutthroat—you won’t survive in the wild for long if you don’t know the lay of the land.<\/p>\n

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George Favvas, a Canadian entrepreneur who moved to Silicon Valley in 2011, gave a presentation to the current FounderFuel cohort “on the things I wished I knew before moving to the Bay area.”<\/p>\n

“It’s been a year and a half since I moved to Silicon Valley (well, San Francisco, actually) from Montreal. I get a lot of questions from Canadian entrepreneurs—both visitors as well as prospective immigrants—about how to navigate Silicon Valley,” Favvas says<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s worth checking out the slideshow he used for that presentation here<\/a>, which discusses the costs of moving, the debate between angel money or venture capital, and whether to settle in San Fransisco (Twitter, Airbnb) or South Bay (Facebook, Google, Apple).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Silicon Valley is a land of opportunity for thousands of startups, but it’s also cutthroat—you won’t survive in the wild for long if you don’t know the lay of the land. George Favvas, a Canadian entrepreneur who moved to Silicon Valley in 2011, gave a presentation to the current FounderFuel cohort “on the things I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":48051,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-48049","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/48049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/48049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/48051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48049"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=48049"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=48049"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=48049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}