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by frederickcook 16y ago
Regarding convertible notes: "“You’re putting in money now and getting a valuation later, whether the company is a failure or a success. If it’s a success, you get the valuation after it’s a success, but you really want the valuation of the
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Entrepreneurs: Stop Hiding Behind E-mails And Pick Up The Phone(businessinsider.com)
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by frederickcook 16y ago
My co-founder.
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There Is No Bubble(frederickcook.com)
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Georgia Approves Constitutional Amendment Expanding Noncompete Enforceability(blog.weatherby.net)
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by frederickcook 16y ago
I'm guessing for a Hasbro lawyer just to look at the brief, let alone travel out to the court, would have exceeded the $2000, especially given the risk that the other party might actually win. They probably have a minimum threshold under wh
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by frederickcook 16y ago
I'd argue that in this community, there is a better correlation between up-votes and the quality of a comment than between up-votes and how much one user likes another user. I'd also argue that there are only a few topics that are so polari
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by frederickcook 16y ago
I think this is definitely an improvement. Putting any kind of number up there is a game mechanic that will affect people's behavior. My eyes inadvertently go there every time I open the page. An average does more to encourage the desired b
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Very good post, Martin. My co-founder and I recently made a decision regarding a partnering with another company in a somewhat new field. We made our decision pretty quickly, and it wasn't until I was later asked why we made the decision we
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by frederickcook 16y ago
The amount of time and effort put into something is inversely proportional to how likely it is to fail. This isn't just because of the actual time and effort, but because as others observe this time and effort, they take the thing more seri
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by frederickcook 16y ago
A corollary to the entrepreneur's mantra, JFDI: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/11/19/what-makes-an-...
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StackOverflow's New York Datacenter(blog.serverfault.com)
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by frederickcook 16y ago
It depends on the type of "sale", but for most company sales, the acquisition isn't exactly like jumping out of rocket as it's taking off. (Where you wouldn't care if it makes it to space or not, because you've got your bag of money.) It's
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Garry Tan from Posterous made this a while back: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0...
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by frederickcook 16y ago
I went to the same meetup, and also found it interesting how many questions about non-technical co-founders there were. I'll share my story about meeting my "technical co-founder". I studied Engineering Mechanics for 6 and a half years, so
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by frederickcook 16y ago
I believe Rackspace has affiliate/reseller programs that might take care of the user/pass issues. You could also just hand over the keys to the server, not the hosting account.
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by frederickcook 16y ago
I think that abstracting away as much as possible and providing "everything as a service" is definitely the direction the cloud companies are all going (Rackspace included) so you're on the right track there. Not knowing anything about the
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by frederickcook 16y ago
You mentioned below that all employees get equity, but it also sounds like you guys are quite happy with the growth you're having and are in it for the long-haul. (Incorrect?) Do you expect to ever have a liquidity event (sell the company),
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Among my non-startup friends, there seems to be this pre-conception that people are working in some day-job and one day, have some crazy idea that nobody else has thought of and go and start a company and become successful. Good to see seve
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by frederickcook 16y ago
twiddit.com Twitter sorted with a ranking algorithm. For people that don't read everything in the stream, the good stuff gets voted up and hangs out at the top, the bad stuff gets voted down and falls faster. Twitter search actually kind of
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2010 Technology M&A Trends and Rankings – How Active Have the Tech Giants Been?(cbinsights.com)
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How do you politely turn down someone who wants to "grab coffee sometime"?(quora.com)
17 points by frederickcook 16y ago|1 comments
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Can you cite that 7 years figure please?
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Here is a great example to the contrary: "How do you retain startup employees long after an acquisition? Rackspace acquired Webmail.us in 2007, and today an astounding nine out of the ten original employees including the founders are still
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by frederickcook 16y ago
I joined a fraternity because I was an introverted engineering major, and wanted to get some social skills. It worked. In addition to social skills, I took leadership positions, managed teams of people, managed a budget, learned invaluable
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by frederickcook 16y ago
I find it very useful when searching for the answer to a programming question. If the MAN page for the language/framework/whatever doesn't provide me with enough information, and I"m looking for an implementation example, it's great. Someti
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by frederickcook 16y ago
This looks awesome, something I'd use every day. My co-founder and I currently use Google Docs for everything from financial planning to project management (to-do lists, features, planning, spreadsheet feedback forms, etc.), but we also use
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Some tidbits from Joel Spolsky's talk last night on recruiting programmers(cdixon.posterous.com)
81 points by frederickcook 16y ago|97 comments
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Startup Shape(frederickcook.posterous.com)
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Isn't this the opposite of what we've been hearing the last couple years? The trend of companies being cheaper to start and the rise of angel and super-angel funds have left VC's without a place to make large investments? Isn't that the rea

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