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by blader 15y ago
A more accurate title for this would be: "Taking a pay cut that is more than the market value of your equity stake? You are probably getting screwed."
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by blader 15y ago
The full text of this link should be required reading for all anonymous internet armchair valuation experts.
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by blader 15y ago
Passion isn't something your employees can just choose to give you once asked, but it is something you can choose to give them by providing a meaningful purpose, the opportunity to learn new things, and the freedom to do great work.
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by blader 15y ago
"we are standing by" Then stop standing by. Telling someone you will help is not the same as helping.
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by blader 15y ago
"I would automate myself right out of writing software all together." Interestingly, the usual way to accomplish this is to become an employer.
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by blader 15y ago
You realize that Facebook is the highest rated company on the whole site?
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by blader 15y ago
Yes, with the notable exceptions of the designers of like, every successful social network ever.
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by blader 15y ago
“Right time, right place, right people on the team and whatever other circumstances you might want to describe as "luck" play a much bigger role than people like to admit because it would diminish their own accomplishments.” True, but equal
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by blader 15y ago
Tencent is the second largest Internet company in the world, and it monetizes primarily through virtual goods, including blog themes. Chinese users don't buy software, but they do pay for online services.
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by blader 16y ago
A good idea well designed. Kudos!
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by blader 16y ago
It's no harder than "build a faddy social network thing that's slightly better than MySpace", or "build a slightly better search engine than AltaVista" to other untrained eyes, I guess.
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by blader 16y ago
Executing on this idea as successfully as they have is far from easy.
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by blader 16y ago
It's pretty clear to me that if I were to Google for something, I'd want to see the original source of the content over a link to a page on an aggregator site. On the other hand, if I wanted to see an aggregator site like Huffingtonpost or
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by blader 16y ago
Or: D.) Like the chorus of voices who were scoffing at MSFT's investment at $12 billion a few years back, you're not as prescient about valuations as you think you are.
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by blader 16y ago
"Games like Farmville are a fad, like Rubix cube and Cabbage Patch Kids." Well, sure they're fads. But toys aren't a fad. LOST might be a fad, but entertaining content aren't a fad. Farmville might be a fad, but Zynga is in the content
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by blader 16y ago
Advice from a guy who's gone through this a few times: 1. Monitor your retention. Are people coming back or just checking your site out once? You can go viral very quickly but tank just as quickly once the initial interest dies down. 2. Sta
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by blader 16y ago
It's more that prophecies tend to become common sense 25 years in the future (Jobs first spoke of this in the early 80s).
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by blader 16y ago
So does this mean this is the year people will finally give up on calling Facebook a "fad"?
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by blader 16y ago
The people at Zynga are many things, "idiots" would not be one of them. "Okay, we need the new chewy coco grove coconut tree special item out by next Monday. So that means everyone's coming in on saturday." Surprisingly accurate portrayal o
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by blader 16y ago
Congratulations Jessica! It's looking AWESOME.
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by blader 17y ago
"Then again, we are talking about one week later. He had to know that he had other irons in the fire and probably wouldn't be involved in the company much longer. So, yeah, this actually does sound kinda nasty." The side project was a Faceb
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by blader 17y ago
It was far from an easy decision and I never felt great about it. This is fair criticism and I accept it. However, I don't feel the same way about your original response. The side project wasn't mine to share, and calling it "treacherous" t
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by blader 17y ago
Wow, this really stings coming from someone I respect so much. This is what happens when you leave without an explanation from YC I suppose. Paul, I agree I should have said "we got in the second time, but I dropped out a week later". I apo
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by blader 17y ago
I was rejected the first time, got in the second time, but dropped out a week later to run a different company. We were profitable at 32 employees and got acquired by Zynga last month.
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by blader 17y ago
You guys rock. Glad to have had your help on ops.
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by blader 17y ago
I just googled for that option and I couldn't find it. What's the option supposed to be?
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by blader 17y ago
Split test it and measure the actual impact. Don't guess.
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by blader 17y ago
Couldn't agree more.
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by blader 17y ago
Wow, what recession?
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by blader 17y ago
It depends on how you leverage 10 top notch engineers. I'm guessing they wouldn't have done the transaction if they figure they couldn't get at least $50M in value from these guys which at Facebook's scale isn't that hard.

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