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> namely, that of book publishers It's entirely different, actually. The risk to publishers is much lower because the book publisher, not the author, control the means of printing the books. In Groupon's case, Groupon would be like a
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* It wouldn't shock me at all if one day they sold their company...* They've already sold part of it (to Jeff Bezos) and they'll inevitably sell more of it when one of them gets old/bored/etc.
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Does anybody remember how Yahoo/Google/Ebay handled this? I know their early investors got rich, but were they cashed out before the IPO?
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The flat fee game the OP describes is pretty much standard operating procedure even for big consulting companies like IBM and Accenture. First they agree to a flat fee (sometimes after a bit of requirements exploration) that cuts their mar
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There are certainly times when unjust laws should be ignored. However, when one ignores the law one should be prepared to suffer the consequences of his actions. Uber's CEO is clearly not prepared to suffer those consequences.
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$120k a year is more income than about 90% of U.S. households. The median household income in the U.S. is about $45,000. Your wife needs to find different friends.
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Just creating and publishing a simple app or proof of concept can make a huge difference in generating interest from possible partners. Most biz guys make the following offer: "I have an idea; I need you to implement it." Imagine if he cou
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Here's the funny thing about learning to program vs. hiring a developer. I politely decline offers to work on ideas that my non-programmer friends come up with. However, if one of those friends came to me and asked to learn PHP, I'd happi
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In my experience, big companies in the U.S. are often willing to negotiate on the number of vacation days issued. I negotiated 4 weeks of vacation/sick time + 6 holiday days at my last job. I took a a couple thousand dollars less than my
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tl;dr I never went to Walmart because it was dirty and hard to navigate. Once they cleaned it out, there wasn't anything I wanted to buy!
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Cheating and the Honor System(ginandtacos.com)
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Are you talking about netidentity? They were bought by tucows a while ago and then merged with other divisions to become hover. I'm a hover customer and never had any problems...
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Not to mention that there are magnet high schools that do very much like the perceived prestige of having PhD level instructors. Your typical public high school wouldn't care, of course. That's not true everywhere. Where I live, there's
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If they charge such massive fees, why do rich people continue to invest in hedge funds? Is it simply a luxury pastime that might occasionally pay off big like collecting art or antique cars?
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Yeah, no one mentions this anymore, but there were huge protests against the draft for World War I. And rather than being able to rely on the volunteers, the U.S. had to draft something like 10 million men for World War II.
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I'm a fairly old guy and I found myself getting bored 1/3 of the way in. When we were younger, all of us ran into a grumpy old guy (or gal) and told ourselves, "No way I'll be like that." Then we get a little older and many of us realize t
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In my neck of the woods, the common word for making something out of wood is "carving." "Whittling" generally means destruction of a piece of wood with a knife.
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Amongst the people I knew (young people with no money), MSFT was seen as a sure thing from about 1990 until 2000. I dissuaded them by explaining that Linux was just around the corner to mess up that sure thing... It's a wonder I was even a
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But then I'd be sitting at an empty desk in silence!
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> Resist the urge to become a professional philanthropist. Have the gumption to dream even bigger than before and risk utter failure. It's only money. I would rewrite this comment to replace "philanthropist" with "check-writer." There
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Almost everybody in the entertainment business has an agent or manager that does the negotiation for them and tracks down additional opportunities for personal appearances and endorsements. Even the producer on the local talk radio show ha
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> Also- given all the MBA hate on HN, I thought it was interesting that they asked all their "business" positions to have MBAs. Companies founded by people who have graduate degrees tend to overvalue candidates with graduate degrees.
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Another possible answer: the square device is targeted at merchants with no permanent physical location thus lowering the barrier to entry for thieves.
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Brand new lawyers are really terrible in this regard. Out of the young lawyers I know, two are really in it because they love the law and justice. The other 95%+ are in it for money and prestige, not because they actually like doing the j
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>First, find out the percentages of cesarian birth and breastfeeding for both your obstetrician and your hospital as compared to the national average. If the numbers don't look good, don't hesitate to switch (even if you like your docto
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In a huge database, even a SELECT with no WHERE clause can tie up considerable resources.
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Last I heard, he's a project/product manager. :)
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You still look like you in all those embarrassing pictures others have posted, right?
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I think the review system here broke down in the peer area Exactly. The review process wasn't actually measuring anything useful, it was just a list of traits that upper management thought were important. This story also reflects how clu
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The suggestions from others here could work for you, too. Maybe you could offer "Webpop Jr." with severely limited bandwidth or a banner at the top. It might even be advantageous to make Webpop Jr. look like its own domain/application to

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