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by davidu 12y ago
There are people who were at OpenDNS in the early days who were incredible, and as we grew, became less and less incredible, largely because the things that made them incredible actually started to be really frustrating as the company grew
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by davidu 12y ago
"but in the US, you only get taxed when you sell the shares. Capital gains would not be recognized if you exercised the options and held onto the shares." In the US this is a completely false statement. As the FMV increases of you
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by davidu 12y ago
There is so much misinformation in this thread. I would consider that perhaps your facts are wrong. Perhaps the first investor did a convertible note. Perhaps he did a loan. First thing I would do is calmly talk to the CEO directly and tell
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by davidu 12y ago
I am curious how much this venue impacts attendance. South Africa is one of the more challenging places to get to from Asia or North America. And costly. Worse, There is not a single flight on the planet from North America or Asia to Cape
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by davidu 12y ago
Such strong language, and such vitriol. If you really believe this, you need to recognize that sometimes the best people are fleeing a bad situation -- a situation that they were a victim of. I don't really know the details of what hap
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by davidu 12y ago
This is not a complete list.
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by davidu 12y ago
I do not disagree w/ you. I do 99% of my recruiting with a hand-written email from an email I find on linkedin, github, or a personal webpage.
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by davidu 12y ago
This is just untrue. Even when we modified NXD responses, we were always open about it and let people control their experience. We are probably the fastest growing (revenue) security company in the market today, and our good reputation is
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by davidu 12y ago
I've signed offer letters and hired about 300 people in the last 5 years, and I still consider myself chief recruiter... Two comments: 1) This is obnoxious in the sense that it's placing a bar that other candidates don't, and
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by davidu 12y ago
Just quit after the deal goes through. You are not a slave.
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by davidu 12y ago
This is something they hope to be true, but they probably know to be false. If you already know it to be false, then it's a lie. Someone pointed out you do get to know your coworkers better, but I'd argue you just get to know them
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by davidu 12y ago
This feeling goes away.
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by davidu 12y ago
Yeah, I meant in the CFO kind of way. It's now clear it's not a long-term win.
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by davidu 12y ago
People do the open office floor plan because it's efficient and economical, not because it's the the best for the workers. We designed a ton of cubbies (like in your university library), 1 person private rooms, 2 person conference
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by davidu 12y ago
Congrats to all 600+ winners, it's nice to be recognized. I like that the 30 under 30 list is now category-based, and not just 30 mostly Internet entrepreneurs (many benefiting from great PR people or influence with the judges). With t
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by davidu 12y ago
When you look to their strengths, Coca Cola is a logistics company. Probably the largest and most sophisticated in the world. 1.7 billions coca cola beverages are consumed every single day. Coca cola carries more than 3,500 SKUs There are 3
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by davidu 12y ago
If you have a SaaS business, growing 100% Y/Y is just fine until you hit $100m ARR. -David
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by davidu 12y ago
Lawsuits are incredibly painful. The emotional and time tax to be in one, regardless of what side you are on, is immense. I hear what this guy is saying. However, having been in three lawsuits, one of which I initiated, I would do the same
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by davidu 12y ago
As with most of these hijackings (like the NYT and Twitter ones last year), the attackers didn't have the server capacity to handle the load of Craigslist, and so they went down. Should have used CloudFlare. :-)
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by davidu 12y ago
Actually, it did work very well. It gave rise to regional CLECs and independent carriers like Covad and Sonic.net.
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by davidu 12y ago
There is always a weak link. Ugh.
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by davidu 12y ago
Our ad business was turned off earlier this year. We don't do it either. http://www.opendns.com/no-more-ads/ Moreover, we give users two very powerful differences neither of the other options you mentioned do, a
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by davidu 12y ago
No. Terrible idea: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
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by davidu 12y ago
Perhaps your point isn't clear. Are you actually suggesting that minorities can only do paper-pushing jobs? Not only is that abject racism, it's obviously untrue. The article is pointing out that because it's mostly whites an
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by davidu 12y ago
yes and yes
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by davidu 12y ago
We (OpenDNS) saw traffic to those domains spike during that time. We're investigating. https://www.dropbox.com/s/tfqpau25ugixiy6/Investigate_2014-0...
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by davidu 12y ago
I have this exact problem. The original reason I use Dropbox is now the thing that annoys me about trying to just store all my files there in the cloud. It's like I need a ~/Dropbox and a ~/DropboxCloud where the ~/Dropb
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by davidu 12y ago
I agree the bar should be higher, I just don't think demonstrating a working invention should be a requirement.
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by davidu 12y ago
No, it shouldn't. People should be able to invent something without having to build it. The filing can come, and then they can spend a decade trying to build it without worrying about a big company spending 100x and building it in 1&#x
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by davidu 12y ago
I believe in this case, based on the author clearly having some mastery of the art, it was used to extend the example for the sake of explanation. There are lots of ways to tighten up the example, if needed.

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