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by cmer 16y ago
I am Canadian and I incorporated (C Corp) in Delaware with Delaware Intercorp. The process was super easy, cheap and everything worked out for the best. I hired a lawyer for my bylaws and stuff, however. I didn't want to rely on their defau
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by cmer 16y ago
I personally found that doing my own accounting was a terrible waste of my time. I hired an extremely competent person for $20-25/hour (in Canada). Time was my most valuable asset as a founder, so I think outsourcing such a non-critical par
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by cmer 16y ago
Very often, acquirers will ask to have an "exclusive partnership" with you instead of outright acquiring you. SAY NO. Take just want you to take all the risks. If the partnership doesn't work out, you're pretty much out of business because
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by cmer 16y ago
At what time is it at?
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by cmer 16y ago
Looks great on your iPhone. Can't wait to see how it will look on mine. If ever...
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by cmer 16y ago
1. Every person who made a lot of money on the web around here has been dealing with him for around 10 years and has been extremely satisfied 2. He works for a large bank 3. He has just a few large portfolio clients 4. I can see what I own
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by cmer 16y ago
I was in a similar situation recently. The best thing I did was to find a VERY GOOD investment advisor who handles my finance. By very good, I don't mean Madoff good, I mean somebody who doesn't promise the moon and really knows what he's d
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by cmer 16y ago
This Wakemate think is terrible fiasco. It's just ridiculous at this point.
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by cmer 16y ago
Is it just me or these are all terrible points the guy made? WSJ, fire that guy!
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by cmer 17y ago
I sure didn't see that! I'm glad they're doing the right thing!
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by cmer 17y ago
Many things went wrong: - I understand delays, but we're now talking 6-7 month delays when the product was promised within 1-2 months. - They should have told us there would be a monthly fee before we pre-ordered. I understand that there wi
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by cmer 17y ago
They should write a book: How to lose your customers' trust before they try your product. The way they handled this situation is disaster.
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by cmer 17y ago
Wow. I'd love to see Textmate support this!
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by cmer 17y ago
Defensio. Our Mongo database is ~250gb
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by cmer 17y ago
steelwave.com
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by cmer 17y ago
Parking is a good idea. Which company would you recommend? I've never done this before.
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Ask HN: What should I do with my domain name of 11 years?
2 points by cmer 17y ago|5 comments
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by cmer 17y ago
I know someone at Google and this is pure bull. They decided to make it a web app, not Apple.
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by cmer 17y ago
I have a software-based solution for this, but I think I'll definitely look into a USB to DVI adapter now... http://blog.carlmercier.com/2009/02/16/a-dream-setup-three-m...
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by cmer 17y ago
Does anyone know which availability zone was affected?
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by cmer 18y ago
dnsmadeeasy is AWESOME. Been using them in production for 2 years, zero downtime, always super fast, and dirt cheap. You can't go wrong with them.
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by cmer 18y ago
This can be useful: http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/dh2go/ However, I don't think you can set different resolutions/orientations for each monitor.
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How to set up multiple monitors on a Macbook(blog.carlmercier.com)
22 points by cmer 18y ago|13 comments
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Startup lessons: An interview with Carl Mercier(startupcfo.ca)
2 points by cmer 18y ago|0 comments
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Era of small exit(startupcfo.ca)
3 points by cmer 18y ago|0 comments
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by cmer 18y ago
IMO, hire a graphic/ui designer. No offense, but it's butt ugly.
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Startup Reality: Survive or Die Quickly(instigatorblog.com)
1 points by cmer 18y ago|0 comments
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by cmer 18y ago
Just an idea, if the 1 Gbps limit is a problem for your load balancer, you could just start serving static files through a CDN, therefore freeing up quite a bit of bandwidth for dynamically generated stuff. It's a good problem to have, thou
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by cmer 18y ago
I'll upmod anything that talks about big trucks and tubes! My wi-fi network is called "This is not a big truck".
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by cmer 18y ago
Even if Macs were more expensive, I think OS X alone would justify the price difference. I'll leave Windows to my grand mother thank you.

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