mikedemarais

emails suck just a little bit less now

use it to help the world, throw up a few thousand Tor relays/bridges.

kansas city! i moved here from boston about a year ago to stay at the homesforhackers.com house for free.

kc is cheap, has good food, and is going through a cultural revolution right now. right now is a perfect time to move here.

and we have google fiber!!! $70/month for a gigabit!

kansas city kansas

this being said, our overall conversation was not too out of the ordinary. they asked what my startup did, i gave them the pitch, and then we talked about advanced manufacturing and the future of the american economy for ~20min. none of them smiled though.

i live/work next door to the hacker house. the most worrisome part of this whole visit to me was when i asked them why they were here, their response was "to check in on your grassroots movement" and used the words "counter-culture" twice.

Exclusively Danny Brown.

our startup just got google fiber TODAY courtesy of brad feld! http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2013/04/the-feld-fiberhouse-...

sick we would love to! you can reach me at @mikedemarais

Hey if any of you guys are ever around MO my team would love to meet you! We just moved to KC from Boston

Right now Fiber is only available to residential customers and the TOS restricts using your connection to serve content.

hey pash!

We just rebranded threed.ee to gethandprint.com and moved our entire team of four from Boston to KC!

@gethandprint

I just relocated my team to KC from Boston after living in the Home for Hackers house for 3 months.

Very few entrepreneurs are moving here exclusively for Fiber, the real attraction is the super inclusive community and the extensive resources available to startup founders. Every single person I have met here is so unbelievably welcoming and will go out of their way to help you out. The Fiber is just icing on the cake.

Another huge reason people have been moving here is cost. My team just moved into a 1800sqft house for $1100/month and fiber ($79/month) gets installed in a few weeks. So much cheaper than Boston..

Oh yeah, and the Kansas Angel Investor Tax Credits [http://www.ksrevenue.org/taxcredits-angel.html] are great.

I'll get Ben on here tomorrow, but he has a few ideas to make this sustainable. The housing market here is really affordable and there are already some companies interested in sponsoring the house, so its not as crazy as it sounds. I believe his current focus is finding investors to buy other homes in the area who are down for the cause.

Check out Mozilla Ignite (https://mozillaignite.org/). We are trying to get people applying for their grants to move to our fiberhood.

The reporter didn't mention that I have been sitting in this house without internet for over a week.. I need to catch up on a lot of work.

would love to grab brightswipe.com :) m.demarais@gmail.com

same here