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by aneesh 18y ago
Okay, then it's easy ...don't take the job!
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by aneesh 18y ago
Several factors to consider: Are the other founders taking salary? How will they protect you from dilution? Why won't they pay you at all even if they raise money now? But generally, 8% is pretty high for someone joining 18 months after
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by aneesh 18y ago
They won't tell unless you ask. If you explicitly ask and they still say no, that is a bad sign.
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by aneesh 18y ago
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/03/nine_questions_.html 1. How many outstanding shares of stock are there?
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by aneesh 18y ago
But still, search advertising isn't an inferior good in the traditional sense. All else constant, if a company gets an additional dollar of revenue, they won't spend less on search advertising in absolute terms.
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by aneesh 18y ago
It is a popular misconception that an increase in demand coupled with an increase in price is sufficient to make a good a Giffen good. This is false. First, the good must be inferior (demand decreases when income rises), which search adver
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by aneesh 18y ago
An important distinction: Kiva allows only debt financing - the lender needs to be paid back in cash. YC does equity financing - if you fail, you don't owe them anything, but their upside is bigger too.
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Poll: Should Xobni have taken Microsoft's offer?
1 points by aneesh 18y ago|0 comments
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by aneesh 18y ago
Take the $20 million.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Hold out in hopes of a higher offer now. (hotmail got nearly 3x Microsoft's initial offer after negotiations)
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by aneesh 18y ago
Forget about MS and keeping hacking. Xobni is headed for bigger things.
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Meebo Closes Big Funding Round(techcrunch.com)
2 points by aneesh 18y ago|0 comments
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by aneesh 18y ago
Some gems: "when the customer says yes, stop talking." "always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent." "I've noticed that some of the most effective leaders don't make themselves the center of attenti
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by aneesh 18y ago
This isn't really that relevant to the high-tech entrepreneurship community. It seems like it's targeted at entrepreneurs who start mom-and-pop shops. And the article admits that too: "So that means the odds that you make the Inc. 500 are
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by aneesh 18y ago
1) http://www.amazon.com/Investments-Zvi-Bodie/dp/0071263101/re... 2) Wikipedia all the terms you may be unfamiliar with. 3) Read pmarca's blog :)
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American Airlines loses $3.3 million a day(money.cnn.com)
1 points by aneesh 18y ago|2 comments
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by aneesh 19y ago
I'll be there - who else is attending?
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Student Entrepreneurs: Unite! (the Boston ones, anyway)(onstartups.com)
10 points by aneesh 19y ago|4 comments
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by aneesh 19y ago
Yeah, the investors (hedge funds, pe) don't have to bear the downside of their investment but they get to keep all the upside. Which gives them an incentive to be really risky with their investments. The Fed has been hesitant to make them
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by aneesh 19y ago
> local or global? Local. I don't care about the temperatures all across the Midwest. I care about the weather where I am right now (Boston). > short-term or long-term? short-term, but longer than a couple of hours -- upcoming w
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Ask YC: Open-source social networking platform
1 points by aneesh 19y ago|2 comments
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by aneesh 19y ago
Yeah, it is hilarious. I'm also pretty sure it's not serious.
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by aneesh 19y ago
1) Yeah, it's a reasonable ad - but that's my point. Almost all ads are "reasonable". You never see an ad saying "Startup looking for mediocre developers." Nothing about this one really resonates. 2) "if I wasn't in school, and if I was
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by aneesh 19y ago
Probably not (much to my regret). The only distinguishing factor is Bezos' name, and that is obvious only in retrospect. I see too many ads like this everyday for any one to stand out. Anyway, I'm going to console myself by saying I woul
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by aneesh 19y ago
There is actually. Yahoo Mail Web Services: http://developer.yahoo.com/mail/
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by aneesh 19y ago
Sage advice from a high school friend: "If you can use Windows, you can use Linux. If you can't, get a Mac. While you won't be able to use it either, at least it'll look pretty."
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by aneesh 19y ago
It is plausible that this wasn't an intentional leak, but it's awfully conveniently timed with the Microsoft-Yahoo deal. This would lose a lot of the buzz if Microsoft-Yahoo had already gone through.
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by aneesh 19y ago
What this really means is that, regardless of which email service you actually use, Xobni will really be your email hub. They'll have your contacts, attachments, and conversations from all your accounts. I presume Gmail and hotmail releas
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by aneesh 19y ago
Ning raised $60 million, at a pre-money of $500 million, so the post-money valuation of $560 million on Alley Insider is accurate.
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by aneesh 19y ago
Your sarcasm doesn't acknowledge iPaper's potential. PDFs are actually somewhat annoying to open for many people. Scribd's platform independent solution is actually pretty cool.

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