The Daily Dale ep4:
So-long San Fran, hello Denver!
Dale answers four questions about Weirdly’s second day in the States.
When people hear you’re a startup heading over the US, the assumption is you’re off to settle in San Francisco.
Instead of just joining the pilgrammage to startup-mecca, we want to make sure we’re choosing the city that’s going to offer the best balance of potential client market, saturation of our channel partnerships and investor friendliness.
So Day4 means Dale has left SF and is now meeting people in Denver.
It’s cold. Other than buying a good coat, here are a few tips we’ve scraped from today:
- Contact the startup hubs: With fewer Kiwi contacts on the ground, one of our best moves was to hit up a few people at Galvanise (an awesome, awesome shared space) as well as the BuiltIn Colorado crew. It’s a really good way to meet a whole lot of local startups quickly and building out those important local networks.
- The investors here tend toward investing in local startups first: That means we’ve been advised it’ll be harder to raise here. That doesn’t mean impossible, and it’s also only based on a handful of conversations, but there doesn’t appear to be the same flexibility you see in the SF investor market.
- It’s WAY cheaper to live: This seems to be true basically everywhere that isn’t San Francisco. But if you’re into a healthy lifestyle and not spending a bajillion dollars to share a bunk with a stranger, Denver might be your jam.
What’s this about?
Weirdly’s taking the big leap; Launching our NZ startup into the american market. Sink or swim, we’re sharing that scaling journey with other startups — stuff that’s working (or not), mistakes we make and tricks we’re learning.
Check out the rest of our Coming To America publication to see how it’s going.
Who’s Weirdly?
Weirdly automagically ranks job applicants by how well they fit your team. Saving you time and money by helping you get to a better shortlist, faster. Taking CV’s out of your inbox and into an easy-to-manage dashboard. And attracting the top talent with a customised, fun candidate experience. Weirdly is recruitment software built by startups, for startups.
