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Detroit Venture Partners major announcement streaming live(detroitventurepartners.com)
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Venture for America Sends Entrepreneurial Talent To The Cities That Need It Most(techcrunch.com)
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by maxbrown 15y ago
Why does it say "Time to get your OpenID at the bottom, next to the sign up button? This could be a major typo/branding issue...?
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Microsoft Ready To Take On Apple Stores With 75 More Retail Stores(techcrunch.com)
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by maxbrown 15y ago
IANAL or a finance guy so forgive me for not knowing the specifics of this, but can't you issue dividends that are taxed significantly lower than payroll which requires income tax? Or is this only capital gains?
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Ask HN: What app/dashboard would you use to track metrics?
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by maxbrown 15y ago
Surprised no one mentioned this yet - go look up Myers-Briggs. It's a personality test that gives you a type indicator... very useful for entrepreneurs to know your type and your co-founder's type etc. It deals with extraversion/intravers
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by maxbrown 15y ago
I like the idea, but I'm concerned about paying up front for a style-based product that I haven't seen yet. For example, this kind of thing has been done successfully with wine, but I'm fairly certain I'll like the wine no matter what they
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by maxbrown 15y ago
I'm a 20-something without children, and I completely agree with privacy and not controlling your child's life, but I wonder how you would respond to the issue of internet predators. Children without oversight HAVE talked with predators on
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by maxbrown 15y ago
My guess is that this was done mostly by hand during Google 20% time. That said, I know there are a number of javascript/jQuery animation frameworks ( http://bit.ly/FpVAM )
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by maxbrown 15y ago
Sounds like you've already answered your own question - you don't like where you are, so you should be looking for somewhere else. If you can get a job somewhere else that you like better, take it. If you can't, stay with what you have now
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by maxbrown 15y ago
Some simple feedback from another designer: - Might want to have hover states on the other navigation buttons. - Too much text above the fold, in my opinion. If possible, I would highlight some short, bullet-points near the top (in larger
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by maxbrown 15y ago
If you just need someone to be the "face" of the company, you could consider finding a business or legal person to come on board just for incorporating and managing. Offer them some small-ish equity in return.
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by maxbrown 15y ago
Reasons to incorporate include 1. limiting your liability and 2. establishing a formal agreement between you and your friends. First, if someone were to sue your company and you weren't incorporated (LLC, C-Corp, etc.) then they would be s
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by maxbrown 15y ago
IANAL either, but... While a company's logo may be under trademark or simply copyright protection, you still have a legal "Fair Use" right to use the logo for the purpose of identifying or describing the company. Most often, this is what lo
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by maxbrown 15y ago
Aardvark is a good example of this - http://vark.com/
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ScoreBig raises $14M - Priceline for event tickets(techcrunch.com)
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by maxbrown 15y ago
And you're already bailing for the coasts!? But it's just heating up ;) If you plan on sticking around, there truly are a ton of investors in the Chicago area.
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by maxbrown 15y ago
What city are you located in? Also in the Midwest and know a few places I could potentially intro you to. Feel free to get in touch.
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Loopt introduces Loopt Qs, Q&A(techcrunch.com)
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The Seed Stage Dandelion Effect(techcrunch.com)
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by maxbrown 15y ago
Figure this is as good a place as any to ask - I'm a graduating U of M senior looking for a developer partner this summer for a few ventures. Let me know if anyone around Ann Arbor is interested!
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by maxbrown 15y ago
I'm sure it's not new, it just seems to me to be flaring up recently. A truly motivated individual is likely to realize that this question is Googleable and will find tons of information. Agreed. And there are many other HN-related route
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by maxbrown 15y ago
So maybe a resource of compiled answers could offer a flow-chart of differing opinions? IE if you want to learn this, start here. If you think this is more important, start here.
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Ask HN: Honestly, why are there so many "how to learn to program" asks?
9 points by maxbrown 15y ago|15 comments
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by maxbrown 15y ago
Page load was very slow for me (especially the background). Probably worth looking in to
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by maxbrown 16y ago
I also find myself most productive from around 10pm till 4am or so. Anyone venture a guess why many of us are like that?
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by maxbrown 16y ago
IMO you should keep salary/hourly comparisons separate. When you're talking about how much per hour , it's typically a freelance/contract rate. But that is going to be much different than what you would make per hour on salary. For exa
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by maxbrown 16y ago
IMO an angel might, but not a VC. VCs look for 10x return on their investment of at least 500k-1mm, and a blog needing that kind of investment or providing that kind of return is highly unlikely.
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by maxbrown 16y ago
Have you looked at http://www.logmein.com ? They have a free version, and it's a solid in-browser remote desktop program that just runs a small background program on any computer you want to connect to. Only issue is I'm not sure they hav

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