October 15th, 2012

San Francisco Proposes Revised Open Data Legislation, Plans To Hire Chief Data Officer

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San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is unveiling proposed changes to the City of San Francisco’s open data legislation today, creating more structure around how the city’s data is shared with the public.

You can read the proposed revisions here, but the big change appears to be the addition of a Chief Data Officer, who will be “responsible for sharing City data with the public, facilitating the sharing… → Read More

September 11th, 2012

Startup Map Launched For San Francisco’s “Innovation Month”

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To help you navigate the city of tech, San Francisco, Mayor Ed Lee has announced the launch of a “Startup Map”, which shows you where all of the hottest startups in the city are. → Read More

January 14th, 2012

A City Is A Startup: The Rise Of The Mayor-Entrepreneur

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On stage at last month’s Le Web conference Shervin Pishevar, a Managing Director at Menlo Ventures, stated “The World is a Startup.” It’s an interesting perspective and I think what’s true for the world is also true for countries, states and cities. With developments like last month’s announcement that Cornell was selected to build a new tech campus in New York City, it seems to follow that if “a… → Read More

January 13th, 2012

Ron Conway, Mayor Lee And Heather Harde Launch sfCITI, Want To Keep SF At The Forefront Of Tech

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At a press conference at San Francisco’s Founders Den, newly elected Mayor Ed Lee announced sfCITI (San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology & Innovation), a set of tech initiatives spearheaded by investor Ron Conway, Mayor Ed Lee and TechCrunch’s beloved Heather Harde and contributed to by a series of tech industry partners, including TechCrunch.

Harde will be taking on the… → Read More

November 9th, 2011

SF’s Ed Lee On How He’ll Use His (Potential) Mayorship To Help The Tech Industry

With more than half of San Francisco precincts counted as of late Tuesday night, it seems as if tech-friendly interim Mayor Ed Lee has garnered a 31% percent vote in our fair city’s mayoral race. In SF’s convoluted as all hell system, if a majority candidate fails to receive 50% of the vote like Lee has, then the election is decided by a count of second and third place votes on the ballots of… → Read More

February 18th, 2011

San Francisco Wants to Tax Your Stock Options– All of Them.

Few people are aware the San Francisco has had a tax provision in its municipal code since 2004 that requires companies to pay a payroll tax on gains from employee stock options. No one pays it, and San Francisco hasn’t enforced it to date, but companies are becoming increasingly agitated that the city may change that policy at any time. The number of high profile and high value startups based in… → Read More