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Chris Sacca on the Twitter Ecosystem (2009) [video](en.sevenload.com)
1 points by aditya 17y ago|0 comments
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by aditya 17y ago
Pretty cool. Perfect response to the Microsoft Social Connector ( http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2009/11/18/announcing-... ) - which is typical Microsoft, no marketplace, no details, I can't even find the SDK! EDIT: of course - rig
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by aditya 17y ago
Conferences are only worth it if you're going to network the hell out of them. It's kinda like business school, you're not going to learn a lot, but you will get pissed with some people who will become friends and help you later on in life
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Tweetie 2 Gaining Native Foursquare Support(techcrunch.com)
1 points by aditya 17y ago|0 comments
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by aditya 17y ago
Ah, right. That's what acceleration is for. It all depends on how the acceleration clause is written into the agreement, but for founders, they usually have a 100% vesting upon exit clause - while the acquirer may require them to stay on (
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by aditya 17y ago
Founder's receive equity, not options. So, once you sign the papers, you get x% of the company every y months. I'm not quite sure I understand your question, but I guess what you're saying is what happens if one of the co-founders leaves be
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by aditya 17y ago
Congrats to Jaymon ( http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Jaymon ) and Mark for building a kick-ass service!
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Investors Say “Count Me In” To Plancast(techcrunch.com)
12 points by aditya 17y ago|8 comments
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by aditya 17y ago
why not? usually you can sell for a nice multiple of monthly revenue on flippa. you can also try ebay, but you'd have to get the word out a lot more.
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The Real Reason AOL Can't Spend More Than $100 Million On An Acquisition(businessinsider.com)
1 points by aditya 17y ago|0 comments
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by aditya 17y ago
Not really. You're going to wait a year too, ideally ALL co-founders should vest at the same time. Usually, the 1 year cliff is post-incorporation. Although, if he's okay with it - you could probably get away with vesting in 8 months...
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by aditya 17y ago
Good advisors are worth 0.5-1.0% of the company. Much more would dilute your option pool (if you're going to end up raising VC eventually.)
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by aditya 17y ago
4 year vesting with 1 year cliff for all employees (including co-founders) is pretty standard. As is acceleration upon exit.
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Half-Assed Startup: Start your company and keep your day job (2008)(venturehacks.com)
2 points by aditya 17y ago|0 comments
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by aditya 17y ago
Pretty awesome how he kept going even when they had no money in the bank. Most other people would've given up. That and it is amazing how employees stuck around without getting paid make me want root for them even more!
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by aditya 17y ago
Does anyone have a full dump of HN posts and comments?
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THE BILLIONAIRE BOYS' CLUB (1996)(redherring.com)
1 points by aditya 17y ago|0 comments
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by aditya 17y ago
You can crash on my couch - email in profile!
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by aditya 17y ago
There's this: http://kaljundi.com/2010/02/19/upcoming-startup-incubator-de...
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by aditya 17y ago
How do people afford to go to SXSW? ~$500 ticket + ~$500 airfare + ~$1k hotels = ~$2k of expenses that could let you do a lot of other things? Even sharing hotels and/or crashing on a friends couch wouldn't work too well...
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Backupify CEO on Raising A Million Dollars For a Startup With No Business Plan(coconutheadsets.com)
11 points by aditya 17y ago|0 comments
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Performance Tuning for Phusion Passenger (an Introduction)(alfajango.com)
20 points by aditya 17y ago|0 comments
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by aditya 17y ago
They could have possibly done the same thing by continuing to disrupt, raising a lot more money, and building a billion dollar competitor to Intuit. Not saying that selling to Intuit was a bad idea, and I completely agree with what Josh is
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by aditya 17y ago
Fascinating piece. Betting the entire company on the real-time web market is an interesting idea. Betaworks is definitely an interesting company, considering the whole VC-funded-incubator model mostly failed in the late 90s, the most famous
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Peter Thiel: An Angel on a Hot Streak(businessweek.com)
20 points by aditya 17y ago|7 comments
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by aditya 17y ago
Probably Friendfeed
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by aditya 17y ago
Interesting that pg is second only to Ron Conway, in number of investments (I'm guessing this is YCombinator vs. Ron Conway Inc.) 190 vs 129 given that YC has only been doing it for 5 years. EDIT: link to table: http://bwnt.businessweek.co
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by aditya 17y ago
Hah. The question is what happens when you fail. Obviously, if you have 100-250k, you can hire 2 people. But then what happens if the biz fails? You created 2 (probably more jobs) and now you're going to get kicked back to your own country?
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by aditya 17y ago
Dave, I think the big issue most people on here are having, is the fact that if you fail to either create 5 jobs or revenue of $1MM or a larger VC round, you get kicked back to your own country despite having invested 2 years and all the ef
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by aditya 17y ago
Not that I know of, are your DMs going to your phone: http://twitter.com/devices

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