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by drusenko 15y ago
It's no secret that the "going rate" for startups that are successful and get acqui-hired is $1-2M per engineer. It's hard for big companies to find talented engineers, and so when they acqui-hire, they can just instantly shuffle those smar
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by drusenko 15y ago
GoDaddy shut down the website. The government complained about it. I see a very important distinction there.
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by drusenko 15y ago
Let's not get out of hand here. This didn't happen because it was in the US, this happened because the domain was on GoDaddy. Having your domain hosted with a reasonable registrar would have been enough to prevent this.
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by drusenko 15y ago
Fair enough, although that wasn't posted at the time I made that comment (which is why I asked). Although to be fair, the SS just made a request, and GoDaddy had no responsibility to comply, they did so on their own accord without any type
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by drusenko 15y ago
There's no evidence whatsoever that this was a US govt take-down. Everything we've seen so far indicate that it was GoDaddy's doing.
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by drusenko 15y ago
Do we have any evidence that the US Govt pressured them?
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by drusenko 15y ago
I have no clue, but it almost happened to us, too: http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2011/12/godaddy-a-glimpse-of-...
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by drusenko 15y ago
San Francisco, CA - Weebly ( http://weebly.com/jobs.php ) Front-end Web Engineer HTML5 Mobile Engineer Android Engineer Back-end Web Engineer MySQL DBA Web Designer We're a bit different than your average startup. We're a small team that lo
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Weebly is hiring talented hackers & ping-pong masters(weebly.com)
1 points by drusenko 15y ago
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by drusenko 15y ago
> these are not normal circumstances How ridiculous. You can use that to justify absolutely any action that you deem fit. Who's to decide what's acceptable in these "not normal circumstances"?
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by drusenko 15y ago
I think there was a certain comfort in their size. You assumed that, because they were so prominent, nothing bad would happen because they were small. Also, there is definitely a momentum effect -- it was the first registrar many people hea
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GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA(david.weebly.com)
705 points by drusenko 15y ago|38 comments
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by drusenko 15y ago
I wouldn't be worried about "someone with more resources" putting out of business "someone with small numbers". I would be more worried about my numbers attracting a very talented startup team into my market.
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by drusenko 15y ago
Obviously, that's true of some startups, but very wrong in others. Working at Weebly, you have similar hours to BigCo (although you'll be 10x more productive), paid market rate (or slightly above), and receive your fair share of the outcome
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Weebly (W07) hiring Web Engineers & a MySQL DBA(weebly.com)
1 points by drusenko 15y ago
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by drusenko 15y ago
Tech company IPOs do not imply a bubble. If there are lots of successful, profitable tech companies that are not IPOing, then something else is wrong.
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by drusenko 15y ago
for what it's worth, i had about a 50% success rate in college at meeting with a professor after my final grade was handed out and asking (with some form of justification) for a higher grade. professors would get very squeamish and often bu
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by drusenko 15y ago
Spend a couple weeks in a third world country and go shopping often. Start with a local to see how it's done and then practice by yourself. Street vendors are the absolute best negotiators (even over very small sums of money).
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by drusenko 15y ago
Agreed. The "standard journey" for a big, meaningful startup is more like 7 years. A "long journey" in my book would be 10-15 years. With some very notable exceptions (YouTube, Zynga, Groupon), built-to-flip and talent acquisitions dominate
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by drusenko 15y ago
Here's a wild, random-ass guess: - Let's keep it simple and say that since this is an experienced team, the investors invested $20m at a $60m post, so they have 1/3 of the company. Since it is an experienced team, I'm going to guess no part
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by drusenko 15y ago
Acceleration usually comes as single-trigger or double-trigger. Single-trigger is what you are talking about: when all of your options vest immediately upon acquisition. It could be argued that this is unfair to those that have worked their
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by drusenko 15y ago
Scoble is telling you what he wants to see before you show it to him and hope he writes about it, but that's literally miles away from where a startup first gets off the ground. Before even talking to Scoble, a startup should have come up w
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by drusenko 15y ago
>> There is no way to avoid the day of reckoning. That would be true if it weren't for the fact that a good bit of our economy relies on confidence and trust. Confidence that there isn't a huge recession or depression in the near fu
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by drusenko 15y ago
San Francisco, CA (Jackson Sq) - Weebly http://www.weebly.com/jobs.php We are hiring front-end and back-end engineers, a MySQL DBA, an Android engineer, an HTML5 mobile engineer, and a UI Designer. From our jobs page: We're a bit differen
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Weebly (W07) is hiring talented hackers(weebly.com)
1 points by drusenko 15y ago
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by drusenko 15y ago
I never said it was a guarantee to make millions, just that I think over a programmer's career it is comparatively likely to make $5-50M working at a startup than starting your own, and you will be net happier on average by working at a sta
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by drusenko 15y ago
All good points, the other I'd add is that I really think joining as an early employee is optimizing for happiness. Starting a startup is really hard and more often than not results in broken relationships, tons of debt and several months
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by drusenko 15y ago
One way to make sense of the risk premium is to think of the grant in absolute dollar terms. When a company is just starting out with no product and no funding, the value of the business is very low (more or less just the founding team's va
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Weebly (W07) hiring a MySQL DBA(weebly.com)
1 points by drusenko 15y ago
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Weebly (YC W07) is hiring an Android Engineer(weebly.com)
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