rlucas

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by rlucas 15y ago
Few if any banks are going to be "good" and none will really have an "API." Set your sights low. The best you're likely to get is the ability to upload a batch file, or if you're really lucky, a NACHA formatted file. Expect to post colla
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Fukushima-type nuke reactors in the USA (map)(blog.rlucas.net)
1 points by rlucas 16y ago|0 comments
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by rlucas 16y ago
Nice, bonus points for using the YYYYMMDD date form in your folder names -- free lexical sort!! (We do likewise with suffix notation, mainly because the more common use case for us is to to first sort by "event description" then by date.)
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by rlucas 16y ago
Agreed; for better or worse, though, a lot of what we get comes in unencrypted email. (This includes legal documents from prestigious law firms, etc., whose practices we are unlikely to be able to influence.) Hence, we practice "no-worse-t
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by rlucas 16y ago
I agree; my bias was to try and control everything (including lots of legal docs, in our business) with SVN. But it turns out ... "people who can't [or won't] figure out version control" amounts to just about everybody who's not a dev, in
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How To use Dropbox to organize your startup's documents(blog.revenueloan.com)
23 points by rlucas 16y ago|15 comments
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by rlucas 16y ago
Don't put it in "investment vehicles" of any sort. Keep it all at the same bank that your angel knows about. He is not paying you to be a fancy treasury management guy. Risk aversion is the name of the game. You also should keep it at t
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by rlucas 17y ago
I quite disagree WRT legal fees and what causes them (I am a VC, not a lawyer, believe it or not). The substantive terms usually get argued about, up-front, by the business people (VC and entrepreneur). It's true that there are ambiguities