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The Instant MBA: Transforming Engineering-Think into Business-Think(slideshare.net)
3 points by dweekly 15y ago|0 comments
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by dweekly 15y ago
This dude is my mentee as part of 20 under 20. He is super sweet, super humble, and super curious about the world in a way that is refreshing to see for someone so accomplished at his age. This "Zen mind is beginner's mind" mentality is a h
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by dweekly 15y ago
These guys were literally the perfect example of the mythical "starving entrepreneurs" who walk into your office with a brilliant idea. I had to make sure they could eat! :)
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by dweekly 15y ago
It was a suicide. :( https://twitter.com/#!/maradydd/status/87586809818775552 Len was brilliant, the inventor of mixmaster, cocreator of CodeCon, and a wonderful human being. The world just lost a great mind and a great man.
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by dweekly 15y ago
:'( I'm so, so sorry. Len was an amazing man.
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by dweekly 15y ago
Glad you liked it! Would love your feedback on the Guide embedded at the bottom of the article, too. ( http://www.scribd.com/doc/55945011/Intro-to-Stock-and-Option... )
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by dweekly 15y ago
Absolutely. The issue is that by current standards, only a very small proportion of companies make it to the point where there are vibrant secondary markets for their Common shares (generally speaking at this point they have options to go p
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by dweekly 15y ago
Totally agreed: AMT is nutty. I've had good friends bankrupted by it.
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by dweekly 15y ago
Fair. I should probably have better written it: "If you join a startup and don't ever want to exercise, the only way to get to liquidity will be to stick it through to acquisition, which might be a long haul."
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by dweekly 15y ago
Thanks for linking to this. The Guide embedded at the bottom has been on Hacker News, discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2573970 - happy to hear your feedback on this!
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by dweekly 15y ago
As an FYI, on May 25, 2011 I updated the linked document to a Second Edition that goes into more detail and corrects an AMT explanation and math.
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by dweekly 15y ago
Very helpful feedback; I'll try to take this into account in the next version of the document!
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by dweekly 15y ago
I posted this at http://stocks.pbworks.com/ for anyone who wants to contribute - http://stocks.pbworks.com/f/Intro%20to%20Stock%20and%20Optio... is the raw PDF if you're interested. Happy to post in more formats if that would be helpful
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by dweekly 15y ago
I knew pretty close to nothing when I raised my first round of financing. I have been programming since the age of five (with an Apple II/c then!) and got my CS degree at Stanford, but I never had any formal business education. I started th
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A Guide to Stocks & Options for the Startup Entrepreneur (or Employee)(scribd.com)
202 points by dweekly 15y ago|24 comments
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by dweekly 16y ago
You've done a stellar job building community at YC. The thing that led me to create Mexican.VC was noting that the hacker community was really taking off there - Mexico City alone has thrown some 20 DevHouses, and over a dozen locations acr
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by dweekly 16y ago
My company, formed at the first SuperHappyDevHouse, would love to have you join us for a summer. Or longer. :) Come change the way millions of people work -- learn a real production environment and ship code from your first week! Company Na
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by dweekly 16y ago
There are a bunch of people in Santa Monica who are looking at starting a Hacker Dojo...
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by dweekly 16y ago
Awesome, Euwyn! This feels like maybe the start of an SF Dojo...? :) :)
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by dweekly 16y ago
Hilarious. :)
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by dweekly 16y ago
You're certainly free to come and just hang out, teach yourself a new program / environment, etc!
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by dweekly 16y ago
Would love to have people drop by the Dojo anytime, or just ask me questions here. (I'm the David Weekly who co-founded the Dojo, quoted in the article.)
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by dweekly 16y ago
It's a good idea to ask yourself what your goal is. Do you actually want to make a billion dollars? At what expense? Some things correlate much better with happiness than cash.
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by dweekly 16y ago
Good times that was - Fox Interactive sent me a Cease and Desist a week after I launched. :)
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by dweekly 16y ago
Dude likes not having a clock, writes a TL;DR longer than article explaining the same. TL;DR It was an interesting exposition on the modern Man's relationship to time an the surprising effect of detachment that results a Vegas-like visual d
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by dweekly 17y ago
Technically a 501(c)(6), actually.
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by dweekly 18y ago
Note that for publicly editable wikis (like BarCamp, for instance), PBwiki does not charge for folks outside your organization. (Otherwise BarCamp would owe us tens of thousands of dollars a month they don't have!) You'll only have to pay f
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by dweekly 18y ago
It's fair that you might not have heard of PBwiki, but a Wikipedia admin should have at least given a cursory glance at what's out there, including in the last 30 days alone mentions in Newsweek, Forbes, the New York Times, LinuxInsider, We
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by dweekly 18y ago
But David Weekly is honorable and tries to minimize self-interested editing and surreptitious sock-puppeting. ;)
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by dweekly 19y ago
I'm David Weekly, one of the co-founders of SuperHappyDevHouse. Finding a very big, nice house willing to rent to a large group of twentysomethings is indeed hard. I had to spend nine months looking at over fifty houses to line up the curre

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