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by ig1 11y ago
Maybe try the HN freelancer thread Out of curiosity what's the normal route for .Net developers in the Netherlands (what job boards, recruiters, etc.) ?
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You're worrying about the wrong thing, the overhead of incorporate in the US shouldn't have any influence on your decision whether you apply to YC or not (unless you're doing something where there's legal complications i
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Kiddicraft was infact a variant of Minibrix[1]. None of these were "big-bang" inventions but rather a series of iterations that resulted in the bricks we have now. [1] http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection&#x2
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MarketInvoice | London Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Analysts MarketInvoice is the VC-backed peer-to-peer fintech platform that’s building the modern backbone of the economy. Imagine you’re a young company who’s just won a major contr
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I don't think you understand how finance work, the UK has one of the best financial regulatory regimes in the world, market participants want to be in London not because it's unregulated but because it's well regulated. If yo
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I wrote up an article a while back on open-source business models for startups which you might find interesting: http://blog.imranghory.org/open-source-business-models (although it focuses on startups and not so much lifest
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You're confusing US and UK Law. US case law tends to favour the view that scanned documents become public domain, there is no such case law in the UK. In particular the BL position is that due to the proprietary scanning technology the
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Unlikely to make a difference unless the money is from a brand name investor/yc-connected investor.
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Hi :) From what I recall there's a ticker somewhere which tracks lines of Fortran code which I vaguely recall being in the millions.
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I didn't work in that area, but I imagine almost anything you use at Bloomberg will go through C++, C and Fortran.
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(In a previous life I worked at Bloomberg) I don't remember the exact figures but 25m lines of Fortran seems plausible, but it was still the minority of the code base. The majority at the time was in C and C++, with probably a few mill
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If they're in the same genus presumably the same CRISPR approach that's being used to inject Wooly Mammoth genes into Elephants can apply ?
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Presumably they're close enough to us that if we can recover their DNA we could use gene editing technology to bring them back to life.
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How many websites do you subscribe/donate to ?
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The two aren't mutually incompatible. If you're an early-stage investor you don't look for unicorns not because you don't want them (you obviously do) but because you can't spot them based on business model, tracti
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What missed here is that if you're operating in a market which you can build a billion dollar business, you can miss badly and still have a hugely successful company. If you're operating in a market where your turnover is going to
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MarketInvoice | London Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Analysts MarketInvoice is the VC-backed peer-to-peer fintech platform that’s building the modern backbone of the economy. Imagine you’re a young company who’s just won a major contr
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Sell to another employee ? But your situation seems bizarre, I'm not familiar with french stock practices, but I doubt that's normal for France.
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It's fine, but you need to have an agreed strategy for what happens to the company if you break up. Will one founder leave, what happens to the stock, etc. As long as you can treat it professionally it shouldn't be a problem for m
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MarketInvoice | London, United Kingdom | Full Time | https://www.marketinvoice.com/ Data Scientists & Data Engineers. We're one of the fastest growing peer-to-peer lenders in the world (you can download a CSV of ou
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Such behaviour would be perfectly normal in the UK at the present time as well. Are you sure it would raise an eye-brow in the US ?
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MarketInvoice - London, UK - Full-stack Developer who loves Marketing. Maybe you’re a future founder with solid tech skills who wants the opportunity to understand marketing. Maybe you’re a developer who already loves funnel optimisation, t
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There are other solutions: 1) The company could offer to buy back options at market rate. 2) The company's current investors could offer to buy equity from employees. The majority of investors returns come from a small number of portfo
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April fools joke
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You should absolutely not have your business bank with the same bank you use personally. If your business account ever gets frozen (for litigation, tax investigation, etc.) many banks will also freeze any personal accounts you hold with the
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While these are all reasonable and valid points it's missing a key one: margin. If you look at successful SaaS businesses users who pay <$50/month are pretty much always loss leaders. Almost all the money in SaaS is in enterpri
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by ig1 12y ago
From the article: "Among the respondents, Docker recorded the strongest buying intention score the researchers recorded in the six years they’ve run this survey. Messina also noted that about 50 percent of the companies in the current
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Sure but they're based around commercializing an open source product (Git).
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You're mistaken about why VCs want firms to focus on product rather consultancy, it's not for the short-term as you suggest but rather the long term. Time spent on consultancy today gets you revenue today but time spent on product
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Techcrunch is somewhat behind the curve here, ever since IBM started undercutting RedHat on support and stealing their customers open source companies have stepped away from having consultancy as their only form of revenue. Modern open sour

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