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by drusenko 15y ago
Right, I was confused about "those options paid out when the company was later acquired". Sounds like you didn't exercise the options and then didn't participate in the sale later.
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by drusenko 15y ago
Was this is US-based company? The way I understand ISOs in the US, they must be exercised within 3 months of leaving the company ("The option may be granted only to an employee [..], who must exercise the option while he/she is an employee
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by drusenko 15y ago
would you really want a super-high production value video? that's not the feel of startups or silicon valley. it's all about being scrappy and working with what you have. at least to me, increasing the production value would move into irony
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Weebly hiring a Spam Domination Engineer (apply to jobs@weebly.com)(weebly.com)
1 points by drusenko 15y ago
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by drusenko 15y ago
Absolutely. But a technical founder is someone with the capabilities to implement product vision themselves.
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by drusenko 15y ago
I think "technical cofounder" is usually defined as someone who has the capabilities to create the entire product vision themselves. If you feel confident that you can code almost anything you can dream up, then you are probably a technical
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by drusenko 15y ago
Definitely, although generally you could lump the engineering problems under the "product-market fit". You need to (a) think of a problem and solution, (b) create that solution, (c) validate your solution in the marketplace, (d)iterate succ
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by drusenko 15y ago
I'll give it a shot. There are very few truly hard problems in starting a tech startup; the hardest of those is product-market fit. Put another way, it's successfully solving a problem that a lot of people have. The other hard problems are
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by drusenko 15y ago
I couldn't speak any more highly of Steven Levy's writing as well. He wrote a story for Newsweek during our batch: http://www.newsweek.com/2007/05/20/meet-the-next-billionaire... The feeling was very similar. Having experienced all of the
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by drusenko 15y ago
I was not around in 2001 so I will take your word on that one. It looks like there may have been a lull and then a resurgence around ~2007: http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/14/weebly-offers-free-easy-we... "The company is just three people
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by drusenko 15y ago
I agree, that response was out of line on my part. There were many better ways to phrase that.
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by drusenko 15y ago
> The likelihood that this tax would drive startups out of the entire SFBA seems very low. Absolutely agree. The likelihood that it would drive startups out of San Francisco proper is very high. We are discussing what the city of San Fr
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by drusenko 15y ago
> If that were true, why is there is a single startup in the city today? Because that section of the tax code is not enforced. > If you think the Twitter in SF situation is unique We're not talking about the Twitter situation. Twitt
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by drusenko 15y ago
That's just not true. All tech companies have traditionally been down south. First San Jose, then Mountain View/Cupertino/Palo Alto. Few have traditionally been based in San Francisco proper. The urgency is that this section of SF tax code
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by drusenko 15y ago
If you want to blindly support any tax because it's a tax, and blindly hate any company that makes money because it's "an evil corporation", you are free to do so. But it's abundantly clear by the facts in this situation that this is a net
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by drusenko 15y ago
I am not an investor in startups, I'm running one. I have the same perspective: We are more than happy to pay San Francisco's unusual payroll tax, but this tax on employee options would force us to move out of the city in a few years. If yo
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by drusenko 15y ago
Because a lot of SF-based startups are looking to go public in the next few years. This has not been the case before.
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by drusenko 15y ago
"The number of companies who failed to go public in SF because of this tax is zero." Do you have a citation for that, or is it just a blind assertion? The reason this is a hot button issue is that San Francisco is becoming more attractive t
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by drusenko 15y ago
San Francisco does not currently enforce this tax, and it does not currently collect any revenues from it, so there is no revenue to be made up. No one was even aware of it until it was discovered recently.
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by drusenko 15y ago
We used to be colocated at HE in Fremont. Real nice building. They have a track record of power outages going back several years.
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by drusenko 15y ago
The Twitter tax cut is very different than this. That was an actual income tax cut that the city enacted to keep Twitter in SF. This is a measure that is repealing a very poorly thought out tax on stock options that would preclude any compa
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by drusenko 15y ago
This is not a tax cut. San Francisco is the only major city in the US that taxes the company for an employee's personal gain on stock options. This is eliminating a tax that was very, very poorly thought out as it effectively precludes an
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by drusenko 15y ago
The logic when we were in YC was that office space does not foster the same kind of scrappy culture that working out of your garage or apartment does. Working out of an office takes away some of the urgency and gives you a more laissez-fair
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by drusenko 15y ago
Am I reading the article wrong? The way I read it, Dropbox did NOT issue a DMCA notice to Github; it's system just automatically triggered a notification to a Dropbox user that Dropbox had received a DMCA notice for that file. It's a simple
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by drusenko 15y ago
That's unusual, we reply to all support requests within 24 hours and those of Pro users much faster. I've emailed you to see if we can't get to the bottom of it...
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by drusenko 15y ago
We're also launching a home page redesign that's a bit glossed over in the article. One of the things we're trying hard to convey is that while Weebly certainly started out as just "Simple", it's now very powerful too. We now offer: * Full
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Weebly Launches Support For Multiple Editor Accounts(techcrunch.com)
34 points by drusenko 15y ago|4 comments
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by drusenko 16y ago
> The tactics of the American and French revolutions were likely classifed as "despicable" as well by the out of touch and complacent, but history would be much different without these tactics. Many see Sony's abuse of power as "despica
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by drusenko 16y ago
What evidence do you have that "the traditional checks and balances of a healthy civil society" aren't working? Just because you aren't getting your way doesn't mean society isn't working. You have a viewpoint, but plenty of other people ha
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by drusenko 16y ago
For what reasons? Taxes and high living expenses suck, but if you're making enough money (which you absolutely would be in this position) the Bay Area is actually a really nice place to live.

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