a_small_island

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   by a_small_island 10y ago

   This article is paywalled.
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   by a_small_island 10y ago

   >"Announce Offers: Up to a few hundred employees, try announcing every potential job offer on an internal mailing list. If you do it, very often someone in the company will know something good or bad about the prospective employee.&
3. 63.▲
   by a_small_island 10y ago

   Not being pedantic: I don't "get" your logo. How did you come up with it and what other variants did you test? And why is the logo upside down in my chrome favicon vs rightside up on your homepage?
4. 64.▲
   by a_small_island 10y ago

   I personally prefer the UI design on pexels over unsplash
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   by a_small_island 10y ago

   >"If you are a founder with reasonable engineer cred" Can you expand on this? Are you of the mind that engineers should only trust other engineers?
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   by a_small_island 10y ago

   >"BILL GATES, aged thirty-eight, is one of the richest men in the country—the richest in 1992, and the second richest, after the investor Warren Buffett, in 1993, with a fortune of six billion one hundred and sixty million dollars,
7. 67.▲
   by a_small_island 10y ago

   >"Those suicides are ultimately worth it, but it will be difficult" -afarrell Source?
8. 68.▲
   by a_small_island 10y ago

   >IIUC First time seeing this, but it's If I Understand Correctly for those who didn't know either.
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   by a_small_island 10y ago

   I'm also curious what OP meant by that point
10. 70.▲
    by a_small_island 10y ago

    Because if it's CPM, then you're paying for users on the publisher who simply view it.
11. 71.▲
    by a_small_island 10y ago

    >"Craig : Hahaha." What is the point of including this?
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    by a_small_island 10y ago

    >"He suggests paying 50% above market in stock, but including a clause that all employees must remain at the company until a liquidity event or else they cannot keep any stock at all (even if they could come up with the exercise cos
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    by a_small_island 10y ago

    This methodology isn't sound because of IRS treatment, I'm not an expert but I have these links bookmarked [0],[1] From [0]: "I typically discourage companies from allowing option exercises by means of a promissory note. Prom
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    by a_small_island 10y ago

    >"Thus, in order for the company to give existing employees more options or give options to new employees hired to grow the company, the option pool has to be refreshed at a faster rate than if some unexercised options had been retu
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    by a_small_island 10y ago

    That title needs work, I had no idea what it meant until I clicked the article.
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    by a_small_island 10y ago

    "Put your phone in this pouch." -- I don't have a phone. "Put it in or you can't come in." -- I don't have a phone. "Last time I'm asking you nicely." -- I don't have a phone. "Ok,
17. 77.▲
    by a_small_island 10y ago

    Akin to telling a depressed person to "stop being depressed."
18. 78.▲
    by a_small_island 10y ago

    So she kept a letter and ended up writing a book about it? What if the letter was just made up so she could write a book?
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    by a_small_island 10y ago

    Any legal minds who think this actually has teeth?
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    by a_small_island 10y ago

    It was a fine read. Entertainment over substance.
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    by a_small_island 10y ago

    Do employees actually use the word "Googley"? Is this seen in a positive light?
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    by a_small_island 10y ago

    Joyent raised over $125M in venture [0], and no mention of a price? Wonder how the employees faired in this... [0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/joyent
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    by a_small_island 10y ago

    *ad hoc
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    by a_small_island 10y ago

    You cut off the most important part of his point: "and then going public all within a year."
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    by a_small_island 10y ago

    Don't make it obvious and sit in front your entire team in front of a window? Why is a neighbor "crazy" for not wanting a business run out of an adjacent apartment? Meh.
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    by a_small_island 10y ago

    1/6?
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    by a_small_island 10y ago

    I love how they have the chromecast addon for the browser in that screenshot.
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    by a_small_island 10y ago

    What if an employee works for the company, but just needed a job and that was their only offer?
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    by a_small_island 10y ago

    I'm hoping it will be half of what the Fellowship was. Please.
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    by a_small_island 10y ago

    Can you share your story? I know I'm curious...