Hey @bpedro! Glad you like it. We use various publicly available sources for aggregating salary numbers together with values provided by Teleport Cities users. We fill missing values from a model we built using existing salary data together with several World Bank economic and developmental indicators. Tax numbers are sourced from international accounting firms and national tax agencies.
This is very cool — a super smart way to decide where to put your startup is to determine where it would be most cost effective (as a function of your burn rate and runway). This tool synthesizes an answer based on a number of different aspects from the overall Teleport dataset.
Hey all, the makers of this from @TeleportInc are hanging out here, would love to hear your feedback and questions.
Especially any founders contemplating your 2016 hiring plans and office locations: is the tool helpful? What else do you wish it did?
@manunoia we have done experiments like Teleport Flock (https://flock.teleport.org -- to find joint optimum between sparsely distributed team members) and timezone-based search constraints in Teleport Cities (https://my.teleport.org).
Good point of bringing the same thinking into group optimizations somehow, have not gotten to that yet. Thanks for thinking along (and sorry for missing the comment before)
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