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by earle 16y ago
I'd like to see what the total revenue for all ten of these are, because for the most part, almost none of these should be on the list of Top Startups of 2010...
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by earle 16y ago
It's not a rumor, Jeff Bezos did indeed work at D.E. Shaw & Co. So did quite a few well known people in technology.
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by earle 16y ago
Mahout should clearly be on this list!
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by earle 16y ago
It's a form of structured debt financing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertible_bond It's better to have a good lawyer about this.
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by earle 16y ago
It's a template designed by Khoi Vin, that's why its beautiful and unique. www.subtraction.com
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by earle 16y ago
Since you don't have any documentation or agreements between parties, you can also most certainly expect a lawsuit addressing all of this under the event you become successful with your efforts. I would therefore consult with an attorney, a
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by earle 16y ago
I believe that patient information even at the Physical Therapist levels require HIPAA compliancy. I'd speak to a lawyer before you start having people use this, so that you are not liable.
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by earle 16y ago
maybe jhh will chime in here as he went through this exact situation @ the secret
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by earle 16y ago
I'm looking for: 1) talented information visualization experts (protovis, raphaeljs, flash/flex/actionscript, HTML5 strategies) who are comfortable working with large scale data 2) anyone fluent with large scale data mining with
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by earle 16y ago
Yes, the "10-20% of the equity" is generally provisioned for the company's stock option pool. This is definitely biased towards technology startups.
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by earle 16y ago
Last I checked one of the most profitable "internet" businesses (Groupon) in the last decade is in, and founded in, Chicago.
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by earle 16y ago
This is also illegal!
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by earle 16y ago
All those examples had justifiable reasoning beyond "stay and pray"..... right?
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by earle 16y ago
I hear Madoff has a 12% growth account for you.
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by earle 16y ago
Be interesting to see how quickly you get your first lawsuit!
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by earle 16y ago
CONTEXT
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by earle 16y ago
(what I would change) / (why i dont actually run one) != what you you think it is.
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by earle 16y ago
I think there's a pretty big disconnect between your version of "working prototype" and what is actually necessary. If your goal is to get some seed money, to build a "prototype" to raise money, then the net requirement isn't a full functio
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by earle 16y ago
Can you name startups launched since 2005 which have > 20M in revenue and haven't taken series a capitalization?
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by earle 16y ago
The thing that nobody understands until you've lived through it is just how long it takes for some companies to get profitable and self sustaining. And just how long it takes for some companies to get liquid and leave the portfolio." The th
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by earle 16y ago
you can just upload to S3 and use AWS Elastic Map Reduce, fire off 10 nodes, and have this done in minutes. No need to start EC2 instances
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by earle 16y ago
You should talk to a specialist about this, not HN.
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by earle 16y ago
Who exactly upvoted this? The fact that this is on the front page of Hacker News is really disappointing.
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by earle 16y ago
That's pretty obtuse. You should certainly take their position into consideration, and even more certainly should be talking to a competent attorney with M&A experience about this.
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by earle 16y ago
This is good advice. HN is plagued with people posting when instead they should be speaking to attorneys.
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by earle 16y ago
This is only good in big diameter ropes. I wouldn't suggest tying this in monofiliment.
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by earle 16y ago
Jasonz: I have a startup in the medical field I'd like to talk to you about. How do I contact you directly? EDIT: I should add, I was the co-founding CTO of Hotjobs.com, amongst other things -- this isn't some mickey mouse thing.
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by earle 16y ago
I'm not sure what this does differently from every other search engine, or search engine aggregator? Aggregating results via third party APIs is a neat, although old, stunt -- but doesn't exactly translate into a startup business to compete
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by earle 16y ago
Why is this on Hacker News at all? And better yet, why is failure to contact a lawyer a recurring mistake of Hacker News posters?
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by earle 16y ago
Bad advice. If your goal is money, just spend your money on powerball tickets since your chances are much, much greater. If you do what you love because you're passionate about it, and you're exceptionally talented at what you're doing, ric

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