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by VSerge 14y ago
Actually Facebook serves as an identity layer that allows to avoid people creating fakes too easily, and at the same time protect the identity of players from potential creeps - ie both players have to agree they'd like to get in touch befo
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Flirtatious Labs - Making a game out of Flirting(rudebaguette.com)
6 points by VSerge 14y ago|5 comments
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by VSerge 14y ago
The reaction to this is a bit interesting.. There's some understanding, some judgement, some cultural explanations, but nobody seems to be asking whether the fundamental question here. With the web doing all it does today, why is it that it
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Why does the web still suck at letting people discover others - love interests?
1 points by VSerge 14y ago|0 comments
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by VSerge 14y ago
This is very interesting indeed. It goes a long way towards displaying a view of organisms as an ecosystem composed of a very large and diversified family of symbiots (cells), themselves composed of synergistic molecules, with all the chemi
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by VSerge 14y ago
At least in France, banks never invest in startups. And I mean absolutely never.
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by VSerge 14y ago
Ha! On the ground in France, it's not really hostility, it's more indifference and rigidity. Some are hostile indeed, but some are helpful as well so it balances out. It's still a general pain in the backside though, and boy do they know ab
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by VSerge 14y ago
I did read the article 6 of the finances law on which my article comments. I'm unsure you have. I am sure however that you neither read my article, or any of the many explaining why this 60% top bracket is significant, ie for investors who
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by VSerge 14y ago
VCs have funds with limited timespan. They can't reinvest endlessly. And either way, an investor needs to have a decent measure of liquidity in order for said investment to be attractive, so locking it down even more than it already is woul
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French tax on startups(flirtatiouslabs.com)
37 points by VSerge 14y ago|58 comments
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by VSerge 14y ago
that sounds about right. I had an article that made it to the front page of HN about a month ago, and it was 25k hits and about 5% of what I'd call real visits, ie people who stayed long enough to read the piece.
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by VSerge 14y ago
It is baffling that analysts can essentially divide their guidance by 2 overnight. With such "guidance", it's easy for small investors to get fleeced. And with everyone in the industry gloating about how we saw it coming, it's only going to
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by VSerge 14y ago
I'm sorry, but this is really basic stuff, and I doubt it will help any startup founder who has done even ten minutes of research on the topic of PR. Founders without famous backers or extensive networks should look at more advanced marketi
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by VSerge 14y ago
It's amazing that this could have worked as a Dragon 7. One engine failed and they still could have made it with one other engine malfunctioning. Bearing in mind the cost of the launches for SpaceX are forecasted to be significantly lower t
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Supermarket giant Carrefour launches 1st virtual store in France(rudebaguette.com)
3 points by VSerge 14y ago|1 comments
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by VSerge 14y ago
For the Frenchies reading this, if you feel like it would be a good thing for us to show our faces and that we're just regular people trying to build something, maybe we should just talk a few minutes on youtube and send it to people we kno
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by VSerge 14y ago
What you say is right, but we also have advantages, like the quality of our engineers, etc. The point is, it might not be optimal but we can deal with it. This 60% exit tax, we won't be able to, and this is why I think it is significant.
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by VSerge 14y ago
We think considering the risks we take as founders, being taxed 32.5% (the current rate) is already quite enough. But more to the point, investors who make do with this kind of taxes on their return will never accept an increase to 60% and
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by VSerge 14y ago
Greedy childiness? We sweat our asses off trying to build a business and overnight we're being told that in the rare case we do get an exit, it'll be taxed at 60% as opposed to 30%. How is that either greed or childiness? Do you even know w
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The Pigeon Movement – A rallying cry for French startups(rudebaguette.com)
74 points by VSerge 14y ago|106 comments
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French startups getting ready to demonstrate against plans to tax exits at 60%(flirtatiouslabs.com)
7 points by VSerge 14y ago|2 comments
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by VSerge 14y ago
That seems like a very sensible approach too. I think we agree that the main idea for implementation is a kind of progressive approach, and I'm sure there's plenty of experimentation on the topic to draw from and come up with a smart and ef
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by VSerge 14y ago
At first glance it would seem only logical that the use of these textbooks be made mandatory. On the whole I agree, that this first step is necessary but insufficient, an that without teeth its effect will be much weaker. However, imposing
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Really? A $-tail sperm cell logo for a dating website?(flirtatiouslabs.com)
1 points by VSerge 14y ago|0 comments
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PR mistake 101: The unfindable patent of the Gamepad Android tablet(rudebaguette.com)
1 points by VSerge 14y ago|0 comments
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by VSerge 14y ago
It seems to me you're confusing technical sales and marketing, as your post describes more of a tech sales role. If this is tech sales / business dev guy you're looking for, it's pretty straightforward: trial and error. Hire a few people, s
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by VSerge 14y ago
Hey guys, thanks for the comments, this wasn't that thought out, more of a venting moment against this kind of behavior by these that are supposedly in leadership position. Its compounded by the fact that I'm trying to launch a game called
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Zynga: forget games, let’s just do viruses(flirtatiouslabs.com)
175 points by VSerge 14y ago|61 comments
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by VSerge 14y ago
I'm a non-tech founder (second startup) and I've had a hard time finding a tech co-founder. So I worked with programmers who are partners on the project, ie they get paid much less than they would in a normal gig, but they get their price c
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by VSerge 14y ago
How is learning maths playfully not insisted upon in this article or the comments? 2 examples: - many card games require players to count points depending on the cards they won. lots of adding and mental calculation training in a fun settin

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