“It’d be awesome to use technology to fix some of the problems that San Franciscans see every day,” says Twitter chairman and Square founder Jack Dorsey, in an all-star video promoting San Francisco’s new open government and tech advocacy group, sf.citi.
Silicon Valley, residents of California, and citizens in 11 other states can now register to vote online. California, the newest state to ease the inconvenience of voter registration, launched their online portal today. “Today, the Internet replaces the mailbox for thousands of Californians wishing to register to vote,” California Secretary of State Debra Bowen said.
Our first group on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt is Michael Arrington speaking with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and VC Ron Conway.
Ron Conway and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee sat down with TechCrunch to chat about two crucial upcoming policies for the technology industry. First among them was Proposition E, a ballot initiative to reverse an old payroll tax policy that charged companies on their payroll, rather than on their revenue (“gross receipts”).
Ed Lee, Mayor of San Francisco, and Ron Conway, angel investor at SV Angel, spoke about Proposition E, a proposal to change the payroll tax in San Francisco at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco today.
“We have a payroll tax that taxes job creation in the city,” Lee said, calling it one of the most negative aspects of the city.
He added that the propositon ”helps everybody have
“Last night was an epic event for San Francisco,” says investor Ron Conway, whose advocacy group, sf.citi, championed the successful passage of Proposition E, which changes the San Francisco payroll tax into a tax on gross receipts for businesses in selected revenue brackets.
Rally.org, a social fundraising startup that even partially raised its Series A round through its own platform, is putting together a charity campaign on behalf of San Francisco’s Glide Church that awards time with Silicon Valley super-angels like Ron Conway, Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss.
Leaders from Facebook, Google, and other tech giants today announced they’re banding together to form a political advocacy group called FWD.us, designed to promote policies that will keep the American workforce competitive.
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.
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