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by gregcohn 11y ago
anchoring the exit valuation at $1B means any valuation that's already greater than that at time of grant (if user chooses that option) produces a zero outcome for equity value. You should consider making outcome valuation a flexible n
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by gregcohn 11y ago
exactly. at some point in the future, deaths are going to be regularly recorded in consumer biometrics, for example.
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by gregcohn 11y ago
Not a technically rich article, but interesting conceptually to think about the kinds of data that are going to be routinely captured, uploaded, processed, and aggregated.
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How Apple Watch Unexpectedly Measured My Vitals During a Car Crash(razorianfly.com)
22 points by gregcohn 11y ago|18 comments
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VA court refuses to strip yelp commenters of anonymity(blog.zwillgen.com)
1 points by gregcohn 11y ago|0 comments
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by gregcohn 11y ago
Hey Kareem, long time! This is an important discussion, and my comments shouldn't be interpreted to mean I don't think joining an early-stage company is risky. It is! But it is easy to be too conservative with the OP's logi
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by gregcohn 11y ago
It's very easy to justify turning down early-stage jobs with that mentality -- and I've turned down a number that would have made me retirement wealthy based on precisely that logic. But now that I'm a founder I'd take i
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by gregcohn 11y ago
Encrypted content over the cellular protocol seems more plausible than a secure protocol, given that a) it's a feature that phones can roam across networks and b) the way these "exploits" work is for LE to emulate an endpoint
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This machine catches stingrays: Pwnie Express demos cellular threat detector(arstechnica.com)
95 points by gregcohn 11y ago|9 comments
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Leadership Is Knowing When to Say No(medium.com)
6 points by gregcohn 12y ago|0 comments
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Best new fitness app (Kumu)(mensfitness.com)
6 points by gregcohn 12y ago|0 comments
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Donating to Ted Cruz's Presidential Campaign Is a Digital Minefield(observer.com)
2 points by gregcohn 12y ago|0 comments
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Burner phone app is earning millions of dollars(theverge.com)
7 points by gregcohn 12y ago|0 comments
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by gregcohn 12y ago
Try just telling him "no" and see what happens. That sounds flippant but it will tell you exactly where you stand -- your value in this situation, in part because you didn't negotiate terms prior to building his prototype --
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by gregcohn 12y ago
After much work, a major design overhaul, the addition of MMS picture messaging across all US carriers, and a number of productivity and iOS 8 features designed to make it easier to integrate Burner into your workflow. Would be happy to hea
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Show HN: Burner 3.0(burnerapp.com)
14 points by gregcohn 12y ago|3 comments
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by gregcohn 12y ago
excellent point.
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by gregcohn 12y ago
not if your current number is way above market. it's also not at all like poker in that lying is not an advisable way to try to win. (never lie about salary, or anything else, to a prospective employer.)
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by gregcohn 12y ago
I wasn't explicitly taking a position on that issue, but rather suggesting that the "who" is more important than the how. "Co-leads" can mean different things, and in any nomenclature having two funds in roughly equ
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by gregcohn 12y ago
Congratulations. Here are my suggestions: 1. Don't assume they won't flex if you inform them you're willing to work with them only on your terms. 2. Before you start optimizing for terms, however, get as much information as
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by gregcohn 12y ago
This was here 3 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8485480
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by gregcohn 12y ago
Have an alternative option you are willing to pursue if they don't give you what you want.
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by gregcohn 12y ago
I can think of several prominent startup couples that have made this work successfully. Wildfire (acq. Google) comes to mind as a recent one. There have also been some spectacular meltdowns too, and in general, intimate relationships betwe
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by gregcohn 12y ago
We are definitely past peak Journalism.
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by gregcohn 12y ago
How have you found it? I tried it out and found it was something like 45 days to run a full backup on my 1TB machine, and discontinued it fairly immediately. Let's just say that was more than 45 days ago....
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by gregcohn 12y ago
Our company name is a .co. It is generally fine but does lead to some email going astray as people, either out of habit, assumption, or auto-correct, occasionally address it to the .com variant.
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by gregcohn 12y ago
The only point I am making is not , as you assume, that all of our philosophy and knowledge is useless, nor that no part can be separated from the whole. My point is that we don't know which part is useful and which part isn't, a
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by gregcohn 12y ago
I believe society is a reflection of human nature. Setting aside your utopian strawman, if your argument is going to based on historical timelines starting with when "we were kicked out of Eden", I suspect we're not going to
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by gregcohn 12y ago
And what, exactly, is the best that we know? Looking at your top-level answer, without wanting to be unduly argumentative, it's certainly reasonable to argue that the classics and the Bible have -- more than most other "knowledge&
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by gregcohn 12y ago
What I am saying is there is no way to pry them apart. There is no lens through which you can look at any aspect of human history and disambiguate the "good civilization" from the "bad civilization" without that lens ha

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