Business & Tech Startup Boom Starting to Bust, as Layoffs Sweep Silicon Valley The robot reckoning may be afoot, as the New York Times finds that startups have laid off more than 8,000 people in the last four months.
SF News SF Workers Make 53 Percent More Than National Average Bust out the $4 toast, French Laundry reservations, and third-wave Champagne, all you “average” San Francisco workers out there! You make substantially more money per hour than your also-average counterparts elsewhere in the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Tech Boom!', a New Web Series Having been a little disappointed with SanFranLand earlier this year, I approached a new satirical web series about SF's tech boom with a little trepidation. It's called Tech Boom! And I'll just say
SF News Cafe Cocomo, Sound Factory Close To Make Way For Housing; Elbo Room Under Threat Too [Updated] Add losing local music venues to the ever-increasing list of casualties of the tech boom. As SFist previously reported, the owners of Mission venue Elbo Room were considering turning it into a 9-unit
Arts & Entertainment Tech Boom Documentary In The Works: Watch The First Footage Filmmaker Walter Thompson is asking a question that's on a lot of San Franciscan's minds: "The tech industry is transforming housing and transportation in San Francisco, but are we on a sustainable path?
SF News Is Silicon Valley Making The World A Dumber Place? This week, a freelancer for the British newspaper The Guardian called out Silicon Valley for creating a “tech utopia nobody wants.” JR Hennessy, who lives in Sydney, Australia, targets his criticism at San
SF News Rising Rents Push Nonprofits Out Of Mid-Market More than a dozen nonprofits have been forced out of San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood due to rent hikes, the Chronicle reports, and the ones that remain are struggling. As Twitter, Zendesk, Square,
SF News The Battery Turns SF Street Into 'Private Parking Lot' If you’ve been avoiding San Francisco's private club The Battery because A) You're not a millionaire B) You have actual friends you don't have to pay for C) They won't let you
Arts & Entertainment Is 'San Francisco Doomed?' Musician Hannah Lew Talks Tech And The City Hannah Lew has been a fixture on the San Francisco music scene since starting the beloved, now-defunct band Grass Widow in 2007. Lew and her family moved to San Francisco when she was
SF News Current Economic Boom Surpasses Dot-Com Boom In Half The Time Call it the Early Twenty-Teens Tech Boom, or whatever you want to call it, but it has officially surpassed the late-'90s Dot-Com Boom with no slowing in sight. In fact, as Ted Egan
SF News All Together Now: The S.F. Rental Market Is Insane It's time for your semi-monthly reminder that the apartment rental market has become completely, demoralizingly, grotesquely expensive and competitive. KQED just published this piece by Sam Harnett who relays a first-person tale of
SF News Rush Limbaugh Thinks Whiny San Franciscans Should Shut Up and Enjoy Their Gentrification Well then. That SF Mag piece by Salon's David Talbot about whether the new tech boom is ruining the character of SF somehow caught the attention of Rush Limbaugh. It seems Rush really
Arts & Entertainment A Look at What $6,500/Month Will Get You In SoMa/South Beach SFGate's On the Block blog is once again flipping their lids over rising rents around town, and they highlight some of the more egregious examples in what we'd call the rip-off department. Take,
SF News Glossy Mag Asks: Is the New Tech Boom Destroying the City? The October issue of San Francisco Magazine is out, and the cover story deals with something pretty much everyone has been talking about for the last two years. The headline: "How Much Tech
