mlinsey

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   by mlinsey 19y ago

   Are the enhancements you're planning with the next version separable from the rest of the site? It sounds like you answered your own question: you feel that the stuff you're adding to the site will make it worthy of paying for, as opposed
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   by mlinsey 19y ago

   I don't understand the argument that "less investment means only the better companies will get funded." At best, you would have to say "less investment means only the better companies [according to VC's] will get funded". VC's are probably
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   by mlinsey 19y ago

   Let her know your HN karma.
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   by mlinsey 19y ago

   I think most programmers would find sorting and searching to be easier than scaling a standard relational database over multiple machines.
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   by mlinsey 19y ago

   I think what some of the other comments here are missing is that this was supposed to be a "wouldn't it be cool if we could actually do this" project as opposed to a "let's create a viable video player" project. Isn't that part of what hac
6. 726.▲
   by mlinsey 19y ago

   I found that "How to Make Friends and Influence People" was really good but more suited to the workplace/building up business contacts.
7. 727.▲
   by mlinsey 19y ago

   First - If you want to "write software that will actually make a difference", your best bet is to stop worrying about advertising markets and twitter clones and focus on exactly that - finding some problem in the world and fixing it. Second
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   by mlinsey 19y ago

   Depends on why users think it's intolerable, I suppose. The most common complaints I hear about Vista, even from casual users, are about performance, and I'm not sure what you could do about that.
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   by mlinsey 19y ago

   That's an interesting idea - what are examples of things you would consider a cathedral? I get the sense that what you're getting at might not just be a failure of ambition but a failure of imagination.
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    by mlinsey 19y ago

    Equity can be considered income in some instances, depending on how exactly the transfer took place. For instance, stock grants such as Restricted Stock Units (RSU's) that you might get from working at a large company are certainly taxable
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    by mlinsey 19y ago

    First - founders should always be on a vesting schedule, just like everyone else. This schedule should be laid out in the founder's agreement. This isn't for tax reasons but in the case you have multiple founders and one of them leaves. Se
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    by mlinsey 19y ago

    From the link: "If you cut the numbers a different way and look at Internet-specific deals, those declined 7 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007 to $1.310 billion, but were slightly up year-over-year " I wonder, does this fit with peop
13. 733.▲
    by mlinsey 19y ago

    Right - openness can be a strong advantage but only after there are some compelling applications built on top of that openness.
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    by mlinsey 19y ago

    "Paypal did for eBay and it worked out for them", which is true but it should also be noted that it worked only after eBay launched a competing product that PayPal was able to beat despite the enormous distribution advantages that an eBay-r
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    by mlinsey 19y ago

    Obviously, having a lawyer who you have worked with and trust is essential in negotiating term sheets (and, even more obviously, actual funding agreements), because each one of them is different and because you are negotiating with another
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    by mlinsey 19y ago

    I'm not familiar with this guy's site so I'm not sure if he means something more nuanced, but "more data beats better algorithms" is too vague a claim to test by picking any number of datapoints. 100 datapoints will of course beat 1,000 d