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Notes from Jacob Appelbaum (ioerror) on his detainment in Texas this morning(twitter.com)
4 points by frederickcook 16y ago|0 comments
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Thoughts On Google's Social Efforts, Selfishness & The Swine Flu(rwwmike.posterous.com)
1 points by frederickcook 16y ago|0 comments
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by frederickcook 16y ago
For a shop whose pre-requisite to hiring a developer is that they have code publicly available, you can bet cultural fit is the other thing at the top of their checklist. Saying "no one wants to go home and write a big fucking pile of code"
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Best summary of bubble/non-bubble debate I've read yet: [Are we in a bubble?] “Maybe,” says Naval, “Certainly valuations are creepy up quickly in all stages of deals. On the other hand, 10 years ago when we all felt like this last time the
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Best summary of bubble/non-bubble debate I've read yet: “Maybe,” says Naval, “Certainly valuations are creepy up quickly in all stages of deals. On the other hand, 10 years ago when we all felt like this last time the total market size for
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GroupFlier (group texting app) transfers to paid service(groupflier.com)
1 points by frederickcook 16y ago|0 comments
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Close. An online brokerage firm is probably a better example than Google Finance, because they both give you the information and facilitate the transaction. The firm selects the numbers to they show you that they think are relevant to the d
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by frederickcook 16y ago
No, I'm sorry, this is my brain-fart. We recently switched our static pages to a Heroku instance in anticipation of a web app launch in a few days, but keep our server stuff on the Rackspace cloud. Proceed with down-voting.
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by frederickcook 16y ago
It says our web host is Amazon, but we're definitely on the Rackspace cloud. Does Rackspace have a dirty little secret?
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by frederickcook 16y ago
This is the key. For founders who are not intrinsically fundable, an incredible amount of risk is removed between the time of initial founding and when a third-party assigns a value to the company. 1000x seems reasonable.
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Yes, SecondMarket specifically provides liquidity for private companies. Again, I can't find a reference, but I believe Thiel has sold over half his original Facebook stock already in this manner.
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Interestingly, some of the most successful startups today may never "exit". Facebook seems to want to avoid an IPO if they can, and Mark Pincus from Zynga has said he hope he can exist as a privately held corporation indefinitely. [1] Secon
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Since submitting this, I've been looking around for a kind of "Hacker's Guide to Software Licenses", and haven't come up with anything. Does anyone have a good reference that lists out the more common licenses and explains in what situation
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Review What You Fork on Github(jacquesmattheij.com)
18 points by frederickcook 16y ago|7 comments
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Live feed of Mubarak address (at 20:00 GMT, right now)(youtube.com)
1 points by frederickcook 16y ago|0 comments
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by frederickcook 16y ago
I believe that's by design. My grandmother doesn't see so well, but still likes to use the internets. Next time you're in the phone isle in Walmart, note that they still sell wall-mount telephones with huge number buttons. There are also ce
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by frederickcook 16y ago
You must mean "lifestyle business"? (kidding)
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Definitely, I'd be happy to. Email fred at heyo.com, or reply @frederickcook.
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by frederickcook 16y ago
The startup I co-founded, Heyo ( http://heyo.com ), went through DayOne Ventures ( http://dayoneventures.com ) last summer in Blacksburg, VA (small town in SW VA where Virginia Tech is located). It was the first year, and we were the first
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All aboard the 'road train?'(cnn.com)
27 points by frederickcook 16y ago|23 comments
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Thanks man, it was quite the whirlwind.
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Silicon Valley in 72 Hours(frederickcook.com)
41 points by frederickcook 16y ago|6 comments
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by frederickcook 16y ago
I got a note from a user about an hour ago that they were unable to find our app in the Android Market. A quick check of the console showed it as "unpublished". I was able to easily go in and publish (all the assets were still there), but s
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Check that your Android app was not unpublished from the Market(phandroid.com)
2 points by frederickcook 16y ago|1 comments
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by frederickcook 16y ago
I wonder about brushing without toothpaste?
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by frederickcook 16y ago
"It's hard to see why, though: DST got in at a $10 billion valuation in May 2009. Facebook's user base has more than doubled since then. So its valuation should…quintuple?" Good point, according to Metcalfe's Law [1], it should actually onl
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by frederickcook 16y ago
where "Recently Closed" = "Closed, but Not Yet Fully Deployed"
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Facebook New Profile Photo Hack(gizmodo.com)
1 points by frederickcook 16y ago|0 comments
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Panel discussion with the guys who will buy your company(justin.tv)
2 points by frederickcook 16y ago|0 comments
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by frederickcook 16y ago
I don't understand. My company recently raised using convertible notes with a cap right around where an appropriate valuation might have been. Now my investors are all interested in seeing the company valuation at the next funding round be

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