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by drusenko 17y ago
more mainstream publicity should be a good thing. it's not a cult, and it's not like only the "anointed ones" with the "right stuff" should know about YC. spreading the startup "message" -- that you can start your own company, instead of sl
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by drusenko 17y ago
i certainly won't exclude that it's in the realm of possibilities... just that, lately, i'm finding it more and more unlikely. twitter "authority" seems to me to be an even more difficult problem than blog authority, and even that was easil
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by drusenko 17y ago
i'm starting to become increasingly skeptical that with all of the free-flow data out there, there is no algorithm that can magically "put it together" in a way that shows you exactly what you want to see. the problem? what you want to see
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by drusenko 17y ago
i think what the parent was saying is that (s)he is trying to avoid any possible ding. it's not that all employers demand 100% propriety (well, some do, but we certainly don't) -- just that, when browsing through a list of comments haphazar
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by drusenko 17y ago
You don't have to do one or the other -- there is a huge middle ground. For the time being, a service like Weebly can't give you a great looking, completely custom design, and may never be able to (design is a very human process). However,
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by drusenko 17y ago
or ask wolfram alpha: $7,900 (1971 dollars)
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by drusenko 17y ago
how so? i read it as meaning we're in. i doubt they mean engineering in the computer engineering sense, and even if they did, most of our business are consumer services, not engineering services. further, i wouldn't say the principal asset
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by drusenko 17y ago
no, people pay capital gains (15%) on 100% worth of sold stock. if you qualify for small business stock + 5 years discount currently, you could pay capital gains (15%) on 50% of the stock, and AMT (28%) on the remaining 50%, giving an avera
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by drusenko 17y ago
That's hilarious... I've never heard of the Minitel used in the contest of a success -- for the most part, it was an absolute and catastrophic failure. Minitel was supposed to be what the Internet is today -- but we're not all using Minitel
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by drusenko 17y ago
early on, i think it was pretty hard to figure out when we were going to be productive, and when we weren't. partially because some of the stuff you do (email, research, etc) doesn't feel particularly productive, even though it needs to g
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by drusenko 17y ago
we used to spend 16 hours a day working on weebly, mon-fri and sunday, but we'd always take friday night and saturday off. we were fairly productive, so i'd say at least 50% of that time was actual, productive work. over time, and with a mo
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Weebly is hiring a front-end web developer in San Francisco, CA(weebly.com)
70 points by drusenko 17y ago
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by drusenko 18y ago
while i think this is true (have not experienced this myself), earning a ton of money does not necessarily automatically put you above the "getting laid" bar, it might just move you from -50 to -20. it seems to be somewhat faulty logic to u
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by drusenko 18y ago
besides the fact that for point 2, your Series A investors will most definitely renegotiate to whatever they want, anyway.
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by drusenko 18y ago
from my experience, that's dumb advice. equity financing being simpler than debt? please. worried about multiple investors with different warrant coverage? try having entirely different classes of preferred shareholders on for size. it soun
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by drusenko 18y ago
or you might not have run into a very well targeted ad yet. i've run into a few ads related to some of my very niche interests and musical tastes that have definitely caught my eye.
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by drusenko 18y ago
i have clicked on facebook ads, when at times they are actually really interesting to me. not often, but a few times. i probably click on google ads about the same amount (rarely) and otherwise never click on other ads across the web.
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Facebook rejects funding at $4 billion valuation, may not raise more(venturebeat.com)
25 points by drusenko 18y ago|27 comments
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by drusenko 18y ago
Why would it be so bad to force people to save a percentage of their income? If you don't, and guarantee benefits for the C category, then there's a perverse incentive: don't save any money your whole life, get bailed out at the end. In any
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by drusenko 18y ago
I've been complaining about this for a while now and I'd tend to agree here. The whole getsatisfaction service is sort of like a blackmail scheme to start out with: They try hard to attract all of your users to their site, to be the "Weebly
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by drusenko 18y ago
The title is very misleading. It is not saying that Justin.TV outside the US is bigger than Hulu outside the US. The article is saying that Justin.TV (global, including the US) is bigger than Hulu (only available in the US). That is a true
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Very cool "virtual hologram" advertisement from GE(techcrunch.com)
1 points by drusenko 18y ago|0 comments
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by drusenko 18y ago
Maybe the "you" market isn't that large? Everybody tends to assume that their needs form a large market. In any case, presumably you did not find something like Weebly a hard problem -- most programmers don't -- yet we're undeniably providi
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Fun Hack: How to open many keypad-access doors(david.weebly.com)
115 points by drusenko 18y ago|21 comments
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by drusenko 18y ago
I'd have to disagree a little here: I think the "free" aspect of the web is a tendency towards marginal cost. If the marginal cost of a user is a fraction of a cent, it does not make sense to charge every user -- they inherently know that t
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by drusenko 18y ago
I would highly recommend keepalived, which is well-written software for managing ipvs, a load balancer in the Linux kernel. Very, very fast, flexible, and extremely reliable. EDIT: ipvs/keepalived only operate at layer 3, which is one reaso
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by drusenko 18y ago
Agreed. I wrote some of my thoughts down recently here: http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2009/02/does-capital-efficien... Essentially, while running a grossly underfunded company is definitely bad, that's not to be confused with a "raise in
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by drusenko 18y ago
Same thing happens to us all the time, really annoying. I've had some associates have the balls to call us up, not do any research, and then try to lecture me on how we should be running our business. Fortunately, I've had a few "hero" asso
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by drusenko 18y ago
You understand that with a 250M valuation, the sale is going to have to be at 500M minimum. What "VC backed site with no business model either" is going to be able to afford that?
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How was your site's holiday?(david.weebly.com)
3 points by drusenko 18y ago|0 comments

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