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1441.
by sabat 20y ago
IMHO, outsourcing to Bangalore was never a good idea anyway. The best talent in India tends to come to the US.
1442.
by sabat 20y ago
Who says you can't just be in it to build up a sizeable community and make money from adsense? Blogga, please.
1443.
by sabat 20y ago
Python is only four years older than Ruby. The rest ... YMMV.
1444.
by sabat 20y ago
Growth companies do not pay dividends, as a rule. The fact that these companies were having trouble getting anywhere near profits -- that was indeed a real problem. (Also, the fact that they were public at all was a real problem for them,
1445.
by sabat 20y ago
... and this describes a bubble, how? This describes a boom.
1446.
by sabat 20y ago
"add one more new factor, like the failure of Windows Vista for example, and you may have that critical mass for a new collapse" Forgive me, but I don't see the connection. How would the failure of Windows Vista do anything but help appli
1447.
by sabat 20y ago
Blogga please.
1448.
by sabat 20y ago
nostrademons gave a fine answer to this. The fine point here is: there is a difference between a boom and a bubble. Boom == increase in activity supported by actual innovation. Bubble == increase in activity based on marketing fluff or othe
1449.
by sabat 20y ago
I doubt that the guy who wrote this understands what "bubble" means. I think he means "boom", and booms are not fragile -- not like bubbles. Truth is, this guy needs to read PG's essays.
1450.
by sabat 20y ago
I may have some information about this, but it's a little bit crude. It comes from Adam Curry's Daily Source Code podcast, when he was first setting up his startup Podshow and was having similar troubles (and not just with Hotmail -- all th
1451.
by sabat 20y ago
This guy is sort of a sympathetic figure, I guess -- more than the NYT headline would suggest. It's a cautionary tale should any of us do well.
1452.
by sabat 20y ago
I'm PG's age and definitely thinking about finding a way to do a startup. No, seriously. Maybe a consulting company that becomes a startup. Who knows? But I envy the hell out of you guys who are in your 20s now. I had bad luck: when I was i
1453.
by sabat 20y ago
What a douche. As if there's something glorious about being one of these 'tards who can't distinguish the difference between the way computers work and the way reality works. People, when speaking and writing, do not usually intend to be ex
1454.
Amazon EC2:doing for VMs what S3 did for storage(amazon.com)
2 points by sabat 20y ago|0 comments
1455.
by sabat 20y ago
Search! Search!
1456.
by sabat 20y ago
An LLC has less overhead, from what I understand, but maybe there are buyout/VC implications? What do most startups do these days?
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Startup Company Form: LLC or S-Corp? Which is easier and which is better?
22 points by sabat 20y ago|31 comments