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by gleb 18y ago
Well, of course, standard venture model option grant percentages do not make sense in case of a small exit ($50M) which takes 4 years. They are designed for an exit of 5 to 10 times the size. So, if you are setting up an options pool, you
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by gleb 18y ago
I strongly suspect that they sell TVs in Australia. So, perhaps no need to ship it from US. If somebody in, say, Zimbabwe wins and you have to go through some hassle to have it delivered, the PR opportunity will be well worth it.
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by gleb 18y ago
A subscription to paper version of WSJ is the best $100/year you'll spend. The content is authoritative, exceptionally well researched and complete. The opinion side of things is pleasantly conservative.
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by gleb 18y ago
I disagree. Dogma/religion fits REST very well. It's also a very useful way to describe it, and the concept of religion is very rich and carries a lot of information in it. Religion is a set of beliefs based on some core principles which c
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by gleb 18y ago
Caching is a poor argument for REST, as is it's provably false. Experience has shown that you cannot make a useful HTTP cache without replicating some custom per-app business logic into it. Paul's example below is a simple case where you H
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by gleb 18y ago
Yes, corresponding term sheet would be very helpful.
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by gleb 18y ago
Adding corresponding term sheet as part of this document set would be really nice.
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by gleb 18y ago
The only way to get similar level of contributions from everybody on the team is by getting rid of high-performers or hobbling them.
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by gleb 18y ago
It's not that we find it hard to write down all remaining work, it's that when we are forced to do it we face the fact that we don't actually understand what all the remaining work is. Often times it's not even possible to understand it, u
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by gleb 18y ago
For the military side of that analogy I highly recommend reading Black Hawk Down. It's a moving account of real-life heroes, a remarkable story of of a modern army engagement, but besides that it's also a great analogy to the business worl
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by gleb 18y ago
Yes. Interesting read.
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by gleb 18y ago
Kids will work for pennies. That's not true. The difference in pay based on experience is negligible, even ignoring the tremendous difference in expected productivity.
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by gleb 18y ago
The money won't spend itself, not in any useful fashion. Usefully spending money is work like any other, and is in fact exactly what a CEO/founder does.
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by gleb 18y ago
Yup. Alex presented it, but it was primarily written by another engineer, Serge.
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by gleb 18y ago
We open sourced a higher-level framework for keyboard shortcuts: http://www.acunote.com/open-source/javascript-keyboard-short... This lets you setup (optionally multi-key) keymaps, similar to Emacs, and basically is all you need to get Gm
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by gleb 18y ago
The cleantech play is hardly altruistic. Rather it's a bet on ability to extract government subsidies to make profits, and to time the market for a successful exit. Note the lobbying cleantech VCs are doing in Washington DC, and consider
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Why You Should Use 'Cache-Control: public' for Caching to Work with SSL(blog.pluron.com)
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by gleb 18y ago
The price premium reflects market perception that yes, it is. It's cool how you can argue whether that's true or not, but the market has spoken.
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by gleb 18y ago
Meebo http://www.crunchbase.com/company/meebo 2 out of 3 founders are women.
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by gleb 18y ago
These things depend on location. Where are you? Here's how things work in SV. Cover letter is exceptionally useful. It should explain in simple English why you are qualified for this particular job, highlighting relevant experience and sh
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by gleb 18y ago
To make this into an easier true/false question lets look at the http://www.startupschool.org/speakers.html Of these Marc Andreessen, Jeff Bezos, DHH clearly qualify, and likely some of the others as well (I don't know enough about them)
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by gleb 18y ago
I think the "distinct" part is what makes it false choice. "Builder" (ability to create a product personally) is good. "Entrepreneur" is good. Having either one in spades may be sufficient for success. Having some measure of both may be
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Ask YC: using PEO for a startup, good or bad? (HR hack)
10 points by gleb 18y ago|8 comments
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by gleb 18y ago
I think viral growth should be considered separate from word of mouth. And if you do make that distinction then there are very few products which became successful through word of mouth. Original Google Search, Napster come to mind, and m
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by gleb 18y ago
It's a bit more subtle than that. Consider Wall Street Journal. It does not fit the general "decline of the news" theme, and for a good reason -- it's a great product. It is getting harder and harder to sell bad products, convenient delive
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by gleb 18y ago
Common usage of word "scale" is that things continue to work well as you add load. Whether that's done by having the software fast enough to handle everything one computer, adding servers or adding pet monkeys is not important to the user.
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by gleb 19y ago
I'll second that. Further, just because a package is available as a plugin, that does not mean it is suitable and is of sufficient quality for a production application.
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Get full Gmail-like keyboard shortcuts for News.YC (cursor, scrolling, j/k, navigation, etc.)(acunote.com)
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Make Rails Associations Faster by Optimizing Named Blocks and String Callbacks(blog.pluron.com)
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by gleb 19y ago
Right, observer's bias seems important here. Being a president builds a strong brand for that person. Beyond that, being in power actually makes people more charismatic. With that, judging their charisma as candidates in retrospect hard

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