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by lquist 11y ago
Honest question: why does a technology company own a building anyways? Especially one that is equal to half of its market cap? Surely Zynga investors are not interested in half of their investment being in Zynga and the other half in SF Com
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by lquist 11y ago
I wish I had snapchat when I was growing up instead of just AIM! It's one of the new messaging platforms that I am excited about because it introduces a new (mostly visual) means of communication.
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by lquist 11y ago
Good riddance. Zenefits is the most bug-ridden piece of software I've ever used. It's completely unusable at times.
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by lquist 11y ago
Hmm...this is odd: Bloomberg says, "Fidelity bought convertible preferred stock in March" However, NYPost [1] says, "investors were forced to take common stock, rather than preferred shares or other instruments" So which
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by lquist 11y ago
Zed, is that you?
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by lquist 11y ago
I have to disagree with the formulation of your advice. I totally agree that you should give yourself permission to fail, but I think it's important that this is only in the short term. In the long term, you can never give up (this doe
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by lquist 11y ago
This thread might be a good place to ask: Why is enterprise bandwidth an order of magnitude more expensive than residential bandwidth from the same company, delivered in the same way?
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by lquist 11y ago
Honest question: Are you serious? What kind of person thinks to themselves, "Man, I really wish I had a gift idea list based on a particular financial investor."
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by lquist 11y ago
Honest question: why is this of interest to HN outside of schadenfreude?
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by lquist 11y ago
No there really isn't. Justin is getting at a truth about startups: "If you can just avoid dying, you get rich." Paul Graham wrote that 8 years ago ( http://paulgraham.com/die.html ), and I wonder if it was (su
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by lquist 11y ago
Reminds me of Yeats' The Second Coming ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming_(poem) ): Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre
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by lquist 11y ago
Fukuyama presents an interesting counterpoint in The End of History ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Las... ): "What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing
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by lquist 11y ago
This aligns with what I would expect. I met the Coinbase founders and they were basically jerks.
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by lquist 11y ago
Can somebody talk about CRISPR and particularly business ideas around it? I read the recent New Yorker article ( http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/16/the-gene-hacker... ), but still have a lot of q
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Have No Excuses(mindingourway.com)
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by lquist 11y ago
It's funny you mention this, because pg himself has a bunch of filler words when he speaks. See random video of him here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lcp0uZsY7k .
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by lquist 11y ago
Fuck. Seriously. Fuck. This could be the IPO that ends the party. One of the top candidates for first Unicorpse (see also Evernote).
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by lquist 11y ago
I get that YC makes sense for larger companies, but also am curious as to why YC is so inflexible on the terms of the investment. Capital is obviously not a constraint for YC, so why doesn't the fund just put up more money for the 7% f
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One of the first (and largest) SaaS companies!
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by lquist 11y ago
One notable exception is Snapchat which recently raised ~$500M selling common shares instead of standard preferred shares. http://nypost.com/2015/05/29/snapchat-has-sold-537m-in-commo...
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by lquist 11y ago
Good point, but I've changed enough of the specifics that I don't think he/she will be outed.
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by lquist 11y ago
One data point in support of this actually happening vs being a retention/recruiting tactic: A financial analyst friend of mine was hired at Uber ~6M ago as part of a team to help with the accounting/etc. for Uber to go public.
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by lquist 11y ago
Congrats on writing a book and launching it! That said, for me, this is just one more data point that you don't write a book to make money off of book sales. You do it to establish yourself as an authority and earn from that new positi
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“Our cards are opened at an almost 100 percent rate, but email is probably two percent or marked as spam. So there is a huge value proposition there, because sending out 500 cards might be more effective then sending out 2,000 emails,” say
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by lquist 11y ago
This is what Ben Horowitz has to say about matching competing offers: An excellent engineer decides to leave the company because she gets a better offer. For various reasons, you were undercompensating her, but the offer from the other com
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by lquist 11y ago
I wonder how things will go with Icahn and Andreessen on the same board? http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-03-04/the-icahn-vs...
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by lquist 11y ago
To anyone monitoring the housing.com story, this just seems like the latest in a series of increasingly erratic events by housing.com CEO Rahul Yadav. http://www.livemint.com/Companies/DQevn4TkemzICqPeSNe8vI/Its...
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by lquist 11y ago
It is important to note that these numbers are NOT inflation adjusted. How much of a difference does this make? Actually fairly significant. 1 USD in 2000 is the equivalent of .73 USD in 2015. So VC investment still needs to increase by 37%
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We are a bootstrapped ~2.5yr old company that is doing $5M in Revenue and ~$2M in PBT. We have fallen into a bit of a funk in the past 6-12M or so growth-wise and basically flat-lined. We are talking to a few funds to raise a ~$10M round (m
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"But note this doesn’t mean everything will be perfect. If the acquirer decides that you are no longer needed, they could keep your option agreement intact and terminate your employment. You wouldn’t get any further vesting unless you

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