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961.
by davidu 16y ago
It's lame, but what they are doing is not exactly auto-blogging. They are driving traffic (eventually) to Mahalo.
962.
by davidu 16y ago
Often times the person shown the door leaves with far more equity than they should. That's unfortunately the last concern the board has. And if it's early enough in the process, the board, if required for the success of the company, can re
963.
by davidu 16y ago
I wrote a comment on the site, but I think this is a terrible analogy. Keep in mind, I've both been fired by VCs and I've fired VCs . And while I've never fired a produce supplier, I've fired other vendors and I can pretty well imagine wh
964.
by davidu 16y ago
But if Jerry Yang had sold Yahoo in 2008 then shareholders wouldn't be left holding a company today that is worth less than half what MSFT offered, would we? But that was an emotional decision, and he made the wrong one. Still not a moral q
965.
by davidu 16y ago
It doesn't have any impact on it. You can deal with this in either case just fine. OpenDNS was an LLC for it's first 3.5 years of existence and then we converted to a C corp when Sequoia Capital invested.
966.
by davidu 16y ago
Hey may agree to less than what he has today because by giving back a huge chunk of equity to the company it can allocate it to future hires. That way he is hopefully increasing the chances of his somewhat smaller stake being worth more la
967.
by davidu 16y ago
Go get any reasonable SV lawyer to have him sign back his stock to the company and then cancel the shares. You can make him an advisor and give him a grant to recognize him for his early efforts. You will need all the equity you can as you
968.
by davidu 16y ago
In business you are rarely forced to murder or whore yourself out. You are, however, constantly faced with changing your direction, compromising your vision or similar, all for some potential upside and downside. That's the nature of busi
969.
by davidu 16y ago
I'm sure you'd agree that the quality of an idea has no bearing on the time that it was submitted. So I wonder... Do you think you've missed any investments because the company timing didn't coalesce with a funding cycle?
970.
by davidu 16y ago
Except it's not allowed... http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-2.3.5 RFC 5321 section 2.3.5 specifically prohibits TLDs from receiving email. Other RFCs back that up, actually including RFC5322 (not directly, but in wire format)
971.
by davidu 16y ago
I made our Terms of Service reusable under a creative commons license: http://www.opendns.com/terms/ Our Privacy Policy is more specific, but you can rip from it as long as you make it read as if it's yours, clear it is not ours, and it h
972.
by davidu 16y ago
While this may be a left-hand doesn't know what the right-hand is doing kind of thing, I don't think this is good. It gets very tricky when companies try to be the arms dealers to both sides. You can't advocate privacy and provide privacy
973.
by davidu 16y ago
not if you have a server on 127.0.0.1:{80,443}
974.
by davidu 16y ago
Perhaps embellished or selective memory driven. For example, I'm sure he is aware of how people elsewhere quit, and I'm sure at CDBaby he had someone quit over his tenure of running it. But by leaving that out, the story is so much better
975.
by davidu 16y ago
It's also a common strategy for someone in an organization to make a big vertical leap or move across the organization in a way that would be nearly impossible internally. Basically, an infrastructure engineer leaves and comes back as a VP
976.
by davidu 16y ago
Many of Derek's posts are a vehicle used to illustrate a point. I thought that was generally well accepted.
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by davidu 16y ago
I think the point Google is making is that ruba.com will be shut down and the team Mike assembled will be integrated into iGoogle and other teams. They will not be working on ruba.com any more. Mike had assembled a world-class team, includ
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by davidu 16y ago
And this model does not scale. Derek knows this. I remember him from when I worked at mp3.com -- he is insanely smart and was exceptionally nice. But many things which worked for him do not work as your audience approaches the norm. Not
979.
by davidu 16y ago
The S1 may seem complicated, but if you've done 409A's and been audited you are very familiar with how these documents get lengthy on their own accord. Much of the language here is boilerplate that is then barely modified.
980.
by davidu 16y ago
It's a well-written letter followed up with action. Rather than a knee-jerk reaction. That's the definition of sincerity in my book.
981.
by davidu 16y ago
Nope, this person told me to my face... and we would all know his name (which is why I'm not naming him.) Unless this person was just telling me Moot was pitching them, and not that they had invested, which is entirely possible (that I mish
982.
by davidu 16y ago
This is not a complete list of the investors as I understand it... I heard from someone else that they were also an investor and they are not listed in this list of names.
983.
by davidu 16y ago
Not for me. The most recent 24h is never available...
984.
by davidu 16y ago
It probably works well for a majority of their signups. More smart than scummy, imho. I don't disagree with the sincerity issue, but again, it only appears insincere to you.
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by davidu 17y ago
Enraged? Your reaction doesn't fit the crime, as is so often the case with copyright.
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by davidu 17y ago
This works well on a micro level, and fails brilliantly on a macro level. It's a model that doesn't scale. See, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
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by davidu 17y ago
There are different folks qualified for different size companies. Some people do best at the 1-5 person company. Some people do best at the 5-25 person company. Some people do best at the 25-100 person company. And some people do best at 10
988.
by davidu 17y ago
My understanding is that this is, in a word, wrong. Equinix, Switch and Data, TelX, perhaps. Leaving managed services, perhaps. Building their own, no.
989.
by davidu 17y ago
That's in theory. In practice, MySQL has different syntax for different engines when you get into more esoteric queries.
990.
by davidu 17y ago
I know Samy well. Probably more than 10 years. He's one of the best of the best. I'd hire him in a second if he'd let me.

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