Wintermute

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Calacanis' Mahalo.com: Hacker to make a Mahalo IE toolbar(calacanis.com)
1 points by Wintermute 19y ago|0 comments
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by Wintermute 19y ago
Just a review I did on a book that has five stars on Amazon and a foreword by Guy Kawasaki, but is really bad. Instead of startup-relevant insights about an extremely interesting topic, just badness.
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Really Bad Procrastination: Creating Customer Evangelists(sayhellotoyournewbestfriend.com)
1 points by Wintermute 19y ago|2 comments
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by Wintermute 19y ago
Orrick is pretty badass. They work with Facebook, Pandora, Meebo, etc. http://www.orrick.com/practices/corporate/emergingCompanies/index.asp
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by Wintermute 19y ago
Couple of points. 1. Your valuation is correct and considering you only have an idea, its pretty darn good. 2. The 2.5% of profits would come after the salaries. Salaries aren't profits. That said, you can't just pay all your profits ou
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by Wintermute 19y ago
Post your Beta to Ycombinator news. No shortage of strong opinions here.
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by Wintermute 20y ago
You've probably already done this, but if not definitely take a look at the PG essay. Pretty solid stuff there. http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html
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by Wintermute 20y ago
No. They will not do that. No good VC would not force you to take a high salary if you would rather the money went into the business. They'd probably even like that. A founder should be setting the vision and culture of the company. Co
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by Wintermute 20y ago
2 other things: 1. I tend to be listening to music when I am browsing the web, so it was kind of disruptive to have the playlists of others automatically load when I was looking at them. Might be better if they were stopped initially and
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by Wintermute 20y ago
Well, it isn't really all that satisfying, but I've taken to tutoring, specifically SAT tutoring. This has good points ($40-$50 / hour, not very difficult) and it has bad points (relatively mindless, highly repetitive, can be a lot of driv