jwb119

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by jwb119 13y ago
I didn't see any contact info in your profile, but if you email me at [my hn username]@gmail I may be able to help.
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by jwb119 13y ago
"Sell HN" would be an interesting thread. I like this idea.
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by jwb119 13y ago
Two things stuck out to me: 1) How similar everyone dresses 2) How clean everything looks
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by jwb119 13y ago
To everyone responding to this, please feel free to email me or get in touch on twitter (both in my profile) so we can organize something. I didn't see contact info for you guys. Should be fun!
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by jwb119 13y ago
I may have a furnished spare bedroom available, just off of Castro Street about a mile from YC. Feel free to ping me.
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by jwb119 13y ago
Not a startup, but I'm usually around Mountain View if you want to grab coffee or a drink. Maybe we can even get some other HN people to join?
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Fish - the friendly interactive shell(github.com)
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by jwb119 14y ago
Great, thanks! Though I'm not seeing an email in your profile.
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by jwb119 14y ago
Is this online anywhere? I'd be interested in checking it out.
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by jwb119 14y ago
Oh, I didn't mean to imply that there is fraud in the vast majority of cases. Just that there is some subset of that behavior that produces fraudulent activity.
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by jwb119 14y ago
> I do wish more young smart people were focused on making things Yep, I'm with you! Thanks for writing the article, I enjoyed reading it. We may have even walked by each other on the third floor at 745 7th ave at some point. Ha.
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by jwb119 14y ago
Yes, exactly. This nails the fundamental problem with the street in my view: unlimited upside, limited downside. You risk everything and have a great year you are rolling in cash. You aim high and fail miserably you probably get fired an
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by jwb119 14y ago
> the financial sector has disproportionate lobbying power. I'm not sure that's true. If Wall Street really had some super lobbying power Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley wouldn't have passed in their current forms. Regulating Wall Stree
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by jwb119 14y ago
I worked at Lehman from 2004-2008 in investment banking and on the bond trading floor and I think I have a little more balanced view. Yes, there are people on wall street that hate their jobs. Yes, there are people obsessed with money. Th
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by jwb119 14y ago
Hey chad, I'll try to answer your questions briefly, assuming you're familiar with the terms you used... Yeah there will usually (more often than not) be a cap explicitly stated in the note. Sometimes notes are uncapped though. Discount w
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by jwb119 14y ago
Not technically SF, but if you are down in the Valley you have to check out Red Rock Coffee in Mountain View at least once. Great spot.
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by jwb119 14y ago
Some very basic background from a famous patent case (Diamond v. Chakrabarty): "Anything under the sun that is made by man [is patentable] . . . . [T]he laws of nature, physical phenomena, and abstract ideas have been held not patentable
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by jwb119 14y ago
Yuri Milner and SV Angel pretty much do exactly that though the Start Fund. Although I doubt it's that easy to buy in. Ha.
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by jwb119 14y ago
EB5 is the equivalent for those countries as I understand it (I'm not an immigration attorney though).
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by jwb119 14y ago
I'm biased, but I think Ting Ni is great (she's in Mountain View if you're in Silicon Valley, but I think remote is fine too). Usually very responsive on email as well: ting@tingnilaw.com. http://tingnilaw.com/profile.html
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by jwb119 14y ago
Hear your point, and agree generally, but parts of this are definitely critical. For example, you have a hard stop window of 30 days to file your 83(b) election. If you miss it once, it is gone. That can create millions in additional tax
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by jwb119 14y ago
Speaking generally: Your stock classes question is complex and depends on a lot of factors (sorry to give a typical lawyer answer but it's true here). If you just have founders and no investors, just common stock can be typical. If it's s
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by jwb119 14y ago
How are you guys avoiding having to register as a broker dealer before the JOBS act goes into place? (I'm assuming you're applying for Funding Portal status afterwards)
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by jwb119 14y ago
Any way for people who have already ordered to change colors?
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by jwb119 14y ago
Thanks for the compliments on the docs, breck. I helped get these up on GitHub and I think the existing document that would come closest to what you're looking for is the term sheet. That's essentially a one page summary of the key terms
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by jwb119 14y ago
Thanks Taylor! Completely agree with you on your points about lawyer workflow. I'm working on a few things at Fenwick (Series Seed on GitHub is just one) that will hopefully get some of these roadblocks out of the way in the future.
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Ben Horowitz's Business Rap(startuplawjournal.com)
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Board meeting dos and don’ts(pandodaily.com)
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by jwb119 14y ago
thanks!
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DIY Weapons of the Syrian Rebels(theatlantic.com)
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