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by gyardley 12y ago
I might be wrong, but I doubt the cap tables for the startups you listed are public. What the founders own is their own business. Sam's likely talking about a 'typical' exit for a startup that's taken venture capital - m
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It's absurd because no other country does it that way - the United States, despite the rhetoric, treats its own citizens worse in this aspect than any other country the rest of the civilized world. If other countries behaved the same w
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by gyardley 12y ago
Because although you can , you won't - probably because there's not 'news' every week about a billionaire randomly giving a person half his fortune. The lottery win happens to somebody , while the billionaire scenari
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by gyardley 12y ago
This is the article's key insight: “It’s not an investment. It’s entertainment. For a very small amount of money you might change your life. For $2 you can spend the day dreaming about what you would do with half a billion dollars—hal
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by gyardley 12y ago
Never taken the Hurtigruten, but if you're after a bit of an unorthodox vacation I can't recommend anything more highly than the Lofoten Islands in summer. Fly into Tromsø, spend a couple of days there, then rent a car and head we
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by gyardley 12y ago
Not exactly what you're asking for, but I did a priced first round because my investors insisted on it and believe it helped me a great deal more than a convertible note would've. In particular, what Suster says about the importan
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by gyardley 12y ago
'Everyone' isn't talking about this issue, so everyone's guess is just a guess. That said, Invite Media was acquired by Google for $81MM a couple years back.
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by gyardley 12y ago
Yes, somehow the vast majority of investors and entrepreneurs out there have continually overlooked this truly great area of opportunity. That's totally the most plausible explanation here - certainly more plausible than 'this mar
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by gyardley 12y ago
I've memorized a non-idiot password I use solely for iCloud.
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by gyardley 12y ago
I've often wondered why incubators like YC don't have sessions that say 'from experience, these are the sort of behaviors that are counterproductive for your startup - watch out for and avoid them.' I know that as a firs
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by gyardley 12y ago
He's arguing that the United States has had a stable political system for a long period of time because the federal government has relatively few powers, allowing the people in its widespread, culturally-different regions to craft stat
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by gyardley 12y ago
These sound like really awesome improvements - that installation and configuration cliff and the heavy use of RSpec were the two things that kept me from recommending the 2nd Edition to beginners. If you've got time, it'd be nice
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by gyardley 12y ago
I can't speak for the YC experience, but in my opinion acquiring users for a product they won't stick with is like pouring water into a leaky bucket - you need to patch up the bucket first. I don't know the details of your si
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by gyardley 12y ago
Yes, this is correct. I'm in this situation (not a 'nomad', but a Canadian expat with no Canadian income) and don't have to pay taxes or file a tax return in Canada.
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by gyardley 12y ago
I can't agree more - this sort of roaming's not for everyone, and the number of people who thrive on that sort of lifestyle is a lot smaller than the number of people who think they would thrive on that sort of lifestyle. My own
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by gyardley 12y ago
The name escapes me, but I remember seeing an episode of a television series about pick-up artists where the guy talked about the importance of dressing outrageously and not conforming to a dress code. Perhaps this guy is assuming that beca
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Bayesian Filter Performance in Ruby(rurounijones.github.io)
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by gyardley 12y ago
I agree - it's hard to distinguish some willfully bad actions from mistakes. I don't think missing a single day's worth of worker's comp insurance in the middle of a state-to-state office move qualifies as one of those
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by gyardley 12y ago
Oh man - I've been there. We moved from New Jersey to New York and the organization we hired for payroll and insurance botched the worker's compensation for half a day - it started on the first of the month and we moved into our o
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by gyardley 12y ago
Probably because there's no nearby place to get untaxed cigarettes, and there's not enough profit in growing tobacco and making cigarettes from scratch. When I was in high school, back in the early '90s, the difference in tax
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Italia Startup Visa(italiastartupvisa.mise.gov.it)
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by gyardley 12y ago
Chile is separated from Argentina by 'the Great Wall of Chile' - the Andes mountains - and unlike Uruguay, has an economy dominated by mineral resource extraction to China and the United States, not agricultural exports to its imm
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by gyardley 12y ago
You can find plenty of exceptions, but what the 'app experts' are telling you is generally correct, at least about the Apple ecosystem. Bunching up a lot of downloads into a small time period right after launch maximizes your chan
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by gyardley 12y ago
Yes, I've read it. It's possible to quibble with how some of the cultural areas are delimited. I would've drawn the lines differently - I think the divisions in Colin Woodard's more recent "American Nations" ar
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by gyardley 12y ago
Alright - here's the position of the National Review's editors: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/367618/sensible-weed-e... Supporting marijuana legalization isn't solely a left-wing stance, and
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by gyardley 12y ago
I suspect only founders with lower-than-average confidence in their own companies would choose a bit of diversification over a better deal for their company elsewhere. I wonder if that could create an adverse selection effect. Maybe I'
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by gyardley 12y ago
Sandi Metz's Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby.
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by gyardley 12y ago
While I haven't read this just-launched short book, I posted it because the Kindle version's free until Wednesday.
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by gyardley 12y ago
Right, because no one at all in the 'tech community' agrees with Mitt Romney.
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Every country treats their citizens differently than non-citizens, and every country believes surveilling and killing non-citizen combatants in an armed conflict is perfectly acceptable -- and that's what the government of the United S

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