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by prosa 16y ago
Agree. It's a bit far from downtown but it's on the subway and gives you easy access to the startup community in the Central/Kendall area with better cost of living. Definitely stay in Cambridge, though. To get cheap living on the Boston
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by prosa 16y ago
Well, the "before 10:00pm" option is likely skewed by the poll being posted after 10pm in all US and EU timezones :)
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by prosa 16y ago
It sounds like you want an LLC. The main reason to choose a C Corp is to support equity investment. With an LLC you literally own a percent of the company, rather than a number of shares (which equates to a percent). This can be bought or
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by prosa 16y ago
Maybe what entrepreneurs need is a "Series AA"-style prenup to protect startup equity?
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by prosa 16y ago
As much as the USPTO can be a total joke sometimes, this particular patent was rejected and marked as abandoned. Transaction History Date Transaction Description 12-06-2006 Mail Abandonment for Failure to Respond to Office Ac
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by prosa 16y ago
In part, they gain headlights into deal flow at an extremely early stage. I can vouch for the Hacker Angels' willingness to help just for the sake of it, though. I pinged them when their announcement first hit HN, and while I am sure they
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by prosa 16y ago
More support for pg's point that your biggest enemy is the back button!
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by prosa 16y ago
One of the great things about providing a fully-featured API for your application is that, given enough demand, someone can create a JavaScript-free implementation of your interface. (Just like desktop apps tend to crop up around popular w
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by prosa 16y ago
Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity: http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strang...
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Steve Jobs single-handedly restructured the mobile industry(cdixon.org)
82 points by prosa 16y ago|56 comments
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by prosa 16y ago
This is a sponsored listing (read: ad) on Proggit, using the poster's affiliate ID. I envy whoever thought of running that. Brilliant way to generate affiliate income.
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by prosa 16y ago
Put your email in your profile! :) I bet I'm not the only one who's excited and would love to contact you about this!
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Point-and-Click Installer for MongoDB on OS X(paul.rosania.org)
2 points by prosa 16y ago|0 comments
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by prosa 16y ago
Looks like the Dallas datacenter is back online now.
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by prosa 16y ago
Which is why airline engines are stripped and rebuilt practically from scratch on a federally regulated schedule. There is a federal agency that exists solely to maintain safety in air travel, and maintenance of aircraft is very highly r
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BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Problems 11 Months Ago(nytimes.com)
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Google Maps Lawsuit: Woman Follows Directions, Gets Run Over(mashable.com)
39 points by prosa 16y ago|50 comments
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by prosa 16y ago
OpenTable was founded in 1998 and ~$5mm a year on its 5-6 year journey to profitability. (Luckily, they were smart with cash during the boom, and had a $48mm pool of dotcom-era VC money.) This TechCrunch article is great for financial detai
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by prosa 16y ago
I agree. However, it is worth examining places like Dubai -- the tallest building in the world, and indeed practically an entire new city, was built by unskilled laborers working for dollars a day. That's a compelling case for commoditizat
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by prosa 16y ago
In any successful field of engineering, the job growth explosion will be among the assembly-line workers. Cars and aircraft, now solar panels and semiconductors. Extrapolating from that to say that an engineering education is worthless is
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AT&T Claims 40% of iPhone Sales Made to Business Customers(macrumors.com)
1 points by prosa 16y ago|0 comments
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Derek Sivers' Notes on The Art of Profitability(sivers.org)
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You Can Outsource Customer Development, You Can’t Outsource Learning(market-by-numbers.com)
1 points by prosa 16y ago|0 comments
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BP Using Misleading Charts to Show Improvement in Cleanup Efforts(perceptualedge.com)
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Wirehog, Zuckerberg’s Side Project That Almost Killed Facebook(techcrunch.com)
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Worst Phone Ever: Crowdsourcing a class action against Apple and AT&T(worstphoneever.com)
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by prosa 16y ago
When we make significant changes to elements that affect certain critical aspects of our site (a very limited number of specific places, like user registration) we sometimes walk through manually just so we can sleep a bit easier. To date,
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Fear Is A No-No(avc.com)
35 points by prosa 16y ago|14 comments
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by prosa 16y ago
Continuous Deployment has been a tremendous boon to us at CollegeJobConnect. We make it work by: - Being maniacal about integration tests - Manually testing key flows (user registration in particular) - Hoptoad exception trac
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Facebook Privacy Options Untangled [chart](flowingdata.com)
2 points by prosa 16y ago|0 comments

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