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   by fallentimes 18y ago

   Exactly, and that's why you need to be very careful with hiring. If you give one of your early employees 1%-5% equity, getting bought for 10-100 MM just doesn't cut it. After taxes, fees & TPS said employee could easily walk away with u
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   by fallentimes 18y ago

   Classic Godin.
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   by fallentimes 18y ago

   Yeah, but more than likely you can do something doing what you like.
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   by fallentimes 18y ago

   Yeah Battery bussed ~70 us an hour away for an all day paintball/beer drinking/BBQ. It was awesome. They even gave us custom masks to keep.
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   by fallentimes 18y ago

   The first two times I read this I thought you wrote "Rapeleaf". My head was spinning.
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   by fallentimes 18y ago

   The same internet and then eventually a tulip bulbs craze from something. "Web 2.0" and all the other horseshit buzzwords that followed was just marketing.
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   by fallentimes 18y ago

   I understand there are inequalities. The fact that most of us were born in the United States or certain parts of Europe puts us in the top 5% (higher? 1%?) of the world. The inequalities between Americans is almost trivial compared to the i
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   by fallentimes 18y ago

   This is what made me fall in love with First Round Capital: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2006/11/hacking_web_20.html This was our honeymoon: http://leavewallstreetjoinastartup.com
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   by fallentimes 18y ago

   Which is why I never called it an insight - you did :). It was eye opening for me personally. Like I said, I was more surprised how it carried over towards the poorer end of the spectrum. I definitely didn't go to a top tier university (for
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    Wouldn't really call them insights, but sure. HHI 60k, Black, 2.1 GPA, similar EC, no record, ACT Score 16 - Accepted. HHI 50k, White, 3.2 GPA, similar EC, no record, ACT Score 22 - Rejected. Most were variations of that. That is, less qual
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    Yeah seriously. Most of us have names that _someone_ on this planet also has too. Or if you're really scared, don't use LinkedIn/facebook/Myspace et al. I view all of this stuff as filtering anyway. Would I really want to work at a place th
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    "At the last Y Combinator Demo Day I attended, there were 3 women in a room of over 100 people. That just seems a bit low to me, and I have no doubt that it reflects the candidate pool" I'm glad she mentioned this. How could Livingston no
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    I agree. So many free breakfasts, lunches, dinners, beers and even paintball too. All while meeting some very intelligent people.
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    What was your first book?
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    I wonder what Justin.TV uses?
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    posterous.com linkedin.com (groups - I'm just as surprised as you)
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    Concerts, theater, http://news.ticketstumbler.com and some other fun stuff for the http://ticketstumbler.com mothership
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    That's perfectly fine, but his source still should elaborate.
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    DONE.
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    Wouldn't know from the post.
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    This sounds like hearsay crap. Where are the clear cut examples of him acting like a "wimp"? “He runs his own firm. He is the boss...When he needs to be strongest, he consumes himself with worry and purposeless actions." This is just Seth
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    Actually Reddit is probably in the minority of internet acquisitions that have worked. It was relatively cheap and it wasn't for "talent". Its traffic has been awesome since the acq.
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    And he has to take TicketStumbler to dinner. :-D
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    Boo acquisitions. Yay dividends.
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    I want limited government.
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    I love reading stuff like this. I wish more super intelligent people did it.
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    Scoble?
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    Other than massive amounts of TPS reports and ridiculously optimistic financial models.
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    It is. It feels like you're on another planet (relative to Texas).
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    by fallentimes 18y ago

    I've been to them - I'd be slightly bummed, not extremely.