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by drusenko 16y ago
Agreed, just because they raised $30M doesn't mean they have to be sold for more than that. Many investors would likely be happy with getting some of their money back at this point.
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by drusenko 16y ago
Moderate inflation is actually a good thing. Without inflation, there is no reason to invest your money -- the incentive is to hoard wealth, like in the Middle Ages.
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by drusenko 16y ago
Acquisitions made primarily with private stock really fall into two buckets: - Those where the private stock is worth more than cash. It would have been a good bet to get pre-IPO Google stock instead of the same amount in cash. - Those wher
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by drusenko 16y ago
A quick piece of feedback: On your home page, you should put a sign-up button where your login is now. As is, it's incredibly difficult to figure out where to sign-up. Put your log-in text or form in the upper-right hand corner: it's where
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by drusenko 16y ago
There is a way: it's called dividends. The problem is that dividends are subject to double taxation: first at ~44% (Federal + CA) for the corporation, then at the dividends rate for the individual, which is currently at 24.3% (15% Fed + 9.3
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by drusenko 16y ago
Have your packages delivered to work and get Amazon Prime. Problems solved :)
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by drusenko 16y ago
To be fair, I've been beta testing the device and it is very bad ass. It works extremely well, is very comfortable, and offers a lot more than any competitors at a much better price. EDIT: I should also mention that I own the sleeptracker w
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by drusenko 16y ago
That's absolutely right. Generally speaking though, you need to be popular (a lot of customers) in order to generate significant profits. Since "making something people want" is generally considered a harder problem than monetizing that ser
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by drusenko 16y ago
All three Weebly founders went to a state school (Penn State!) and never had a real job. It's certainly possibly to be successful no matter what school you went to.
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by drusenko 16y ago
We fight spam fairly aggressively, and the amount of spam created on the system is a very small percentage of the legitimate users. You've probably visited multiple legitimate Weebly websites before but just didn't know we were behind them.
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by drusenko 16y ago
Sorry, that was probably poor phrasing. I meant to say that people are creating web applications that act more like "real" applications. Websites will likely follow a different evolutionary path.
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by drusenko 16y ago
I would imagine that since paper money gets its value entirely from the trust the public places in its authenticity and value, any printing defect will cause chaos when the not-completely-uniform bills go into circulation. This will waste t
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by drusenko 16y ago
Actually, the design contest results were amazing. We had over 2,000 submissions, and a couple hundred of those will end up being implemented in Weebly. We're actually waiting until we can fully support all of the "features" of some of the
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by drusenko 16y ago
This http://code.google.com/chrome/webstore/docs/index.html#drm and this http://code.google.com/chrome/webstore/docs/check_for_paymen... might be useful here...
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by drusenko 16y ago
To answer the question that will inevitably come: It's more than just a link. We're really excited about this for a few reasons. First and foremost, it eliminates any sign-up friction to use the app, and that's pretty important. Chrome user
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Weebly featured in Chrome Web Store(blog.weebly.com)
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by drusenko 16y ago
Usually, important decisions in a company require a majority vote of the board of directors to approve them. Control of the board is then defined as a majority voting ability for an individual or aligned group of individuals. For example, 2
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by drusenko 16y ago
This makes the most sense, especially considering Level 3's very careful wording in their press release. This kind of thing happens all the time, relatively speaking. There's really nothing to care about here. If you get upset over this,
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by drusenko 16y ago
"how completely disconnected Westerners are from the way the world actually works" Would you like to explain that, or are you just going to throw a nebulous assertion out there and expect it to mean something?
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by drusenko 16y ago
Dove for soap is another example. It's very clear that Dove soap is a brand name, and should be protected. It seems likely that Facebook is just trying to go as far as the government will let them.
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by drusenko 16y ago
YC has "partnered" with Facebook only as much as it benefits YC companies tremendously to have inside access and help from the largest and most dominant social network. Partnering with them can hardly be construed as an endorsement of every
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by drusenko 16y ago
You nailed it. The two metrics most startups are judged on are both very toxic: money raised and number of employees. I blame the press, who use those two false metrics as a proxy for company success. In return, founders tend to want to gro
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by drusenko 16y ago
Really? This page looks pretty legitimate: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cooks-Source-Magazine/19699419... They have postings going back to December 2009. In the wall area, if you click on "Filters" and then "Just Cooks Source Magazine",
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by drusenko 16y ago
"One fifth of Six Apart’s portion will go to executives Ben Trott (who founded the company with his wife, Mena), Andrew Anker and Jeff Ash. The rest is distributed among the rest of the Six Apart’s shareholders." If my math is correct, that
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by drusenko 16y ago
I completely lost any possible sympathy for her when she posted this to Facebook, a day or so after the story broke: ------------ Hi Folks! Well, here I am with egg on my face! I did apologise to Monica via email, but aparently it wasnt eno
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by drusenko 16y ago
If I had to change my password every three months, I'd do something even simpler: I'd stop using the service.
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by drusenko 16y ago
> Bcrypt and scrypt look great, but not fundamentally any better than longer passwords. A technical-only solution is infinitely better than one where you try to change user behavior. You think memorizing a long password is easy because
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by drusenko 16y ago
It seems they are only going to be highlighting messages from your friends. Spam messages naturally won't be from your extended social graph, so will be hidden and only show up in "Other" (if they aren't already spam-filtered away into obli
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by drusenko 16y ago
The way I read it, this new type of messaging will only replace a part of why you use email, the part where you communicate with friends. The other part will remain unchanged, and email would eventually become much more like snail mail is t
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by drusenko 16y ago
I enjoyed the "travel log" aspect of it. It was fun to be able to look back a couple months and remember every restaurant I ate at, and every place I went. The mayorships and badges were fun at first, too. Ultimately, though, I decided it w

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