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by jval 13y ago
I think a lot of people are on autopilot and just vote up negative stuff. I think it has something to do with the fact that a lot of people here must be in a low mood because they're starting their own business and struggling, or hatin
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by jval 13y ago
This is a superb comment. Thank you.
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by jval 13y ago
Great post, but I think when they talk about consumer they are talking about totally free consumer facing time-sink eyeball-monetization companies like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. I don't think they consider consumerised enterpris
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by jval 13y ago
This is cool, do the universities digitally archive copies of the stuff themselves or just Internet Archive on behalf of them?
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by jval 13y ago
To be fair, I think this is a perfectly legitimate ad hominem attack which I've phrased in the least exaggerated way possible. In politics, we have to question not only whether a prosecution is just but whether it is brought in the int
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by jval 13y ago
Right... so Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's campaign contributors last election? http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate... At number 4 with 1.58% of total campaign moneys, East 103r
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by jval 13y ago
Brb, about to go list my shelf companies GeetHub, AireBnb and Boox. Can you imagine how much the shareholders of this company would have been making as the stock was going up? I mean, there's only $1.3M of total shares on issue even no
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Dread Pirate Roberts - The Indictment(www1.icsi.berkeley.edu)
3 points by jval 13y ago|0 comments
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by jval 13y ago
I picture an old bus full of pennies.
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by jval 13y ago
The Feds were waiting to find out what happened to Walter White before they decided what to do with DPR.. timing is impeccable.
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by jval 13y ago
.. how is Betfair ethical?
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by jval 13y ago
Love how the investor who authored that subthread was a founder of Betfair, and is trying to defend how ethical the JustFab business model is. ... his credibility level on this topic is over 9000.
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McCutcheon: Unlimited Bribery(unlimitedcorruption.com)
51 points by jval 13y ago|15 comments
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by jval 13y ago
Wow, if Braintree is worth $800M.. what must Stripe be worth?
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by jval 13y ago
Don't insult people and then deny that you've insulted them and attempt to back it up with a blog post that isn't an authority for what you just said. OP worked at Rocket Internet for 2 years. Say what you like about them, th
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by jval 13y ago
Sure, I bet you have heaps of friends who are MBAs as well, so there's no way you could possibly be biased against them. MBAs are there to make money, same as every other profession. Do you work for free? You should just apologise inst
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by jval 13y ago
Does this introduce counterparty risk in some way? For instance, if Wefunder goes broke, do the investments go down with the company or are they all in a separate entity?
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by jval 13y ago
I would presume that their acquisition of Rapportive plays some part in their use of emails and recommendations. I know for a fact I have never given them access to my email accounts but they have started surfacing 'people you may know
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by jval 13y ago
Not to mention providing good commercial advice to help people manage relationships with co-workers, investors, clients etc etc... I can't believe there are people out there who with confidence can declare that 1 million Americans are
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Paper: No Evidence That ISPs Policing Copyright Actually Does Anything(papers.ssrn.com)
5 points by jval 13y ago|1 comments
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by jval 13y ago
Yeah, you're right that was probably a bit harsh given that I'm just running from what I've heard from others, and the fact that last year they were still charging $150 for registration. But who am I to know - I don't wa
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by jval 13y ago
Ok, firstly whois Microsoft.com just returns all URLs with Microsoft.com in them, even as a subdomain, so they haven't been hacked and that result has been there for ages. Same goes for Verisign etc. TechCrunch is reporting that regist
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by jval 13y ago
Well, lack of sleep causes epilepsy seizures. Not to mention a bunch of other health problems in people who don't have epilepsy. It's ridiculous to expect people to work this long, and saying people choose to be put in the situat
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by jval 13y ago
I think everyone's kinda missing the point here. You don't trust powerful people, plain and simple. Not because they're any worse than the average person, but because you can't do anything to stop them when they do somet
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by jval 13y ago
I can't believe that comments like this get upvoted by the same people who decry the practice of viewing programmers as monkeys or typists. Good luck starting your own country with a legal system that doesn't require interpretatio
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by jval 13y ago
Wow, the creators of BWF must be celebrating tonight. Look at all this free press, now they can say they've been covered by BBC too!
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by jval 13y ago
I feel like there's a lot of articles like this, which kinda make it seem like life is easy as an entrepreneur, or that successful business just happen. I feel like this mentality is behind the explosion in early stage financings relat
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by jval 13y ago
I can see what you mean here. I feel like this often applies to SaaS products and Network companies like Facebook, where forerunners in the field have validated the need for something in the market, but failed from a technical or a distribu
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by jval 13y ago
I think the most important advice I saw here was to not get attached. And this is probably a basic piece of advice that applies in all negotiations - always have an alternative (where possible). I recently got my four letter domain for a ve
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by jval 13y ago
Am I the only one getting a 'sign in to read' prompt?

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