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by smalter 16y ago
Clickable: http://www.leasely.com
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Ask HN: Review my startup, Leasely
13 points by smalter 16y ago|23 comments
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Good YC Applications, More Interviews(twitter.com)
111 points by smalter 16y ago|17 comments
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by smalter 16y ago
i have to agree with the op. i think you can't, e.g. for entrepreneurs, disentangle risk from reward. similarly, with base jumping, risk itself can't be disentangled from the thrill of speed. for instance, i like to snowboard because it
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by smalter 16y ago
question: is this a counterargument to the paleo/caveman diet?
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by smalter 16y ago
respectfully, your post is misleading. it's not there there isn't an "absolutist view of privacy rights", it's that there is a very narrow "right to privacy." i put "right to privacy" in quotes because whether it exists at all is debatabl
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by smalter 16y ago
This is the referenced review by the Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/dining/13rest.html
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Reprimanded by Mom after a Bad Review in the New York Times: Back to Basics(thepopchef.blogspot.com)
2 points by smalter 16y ago|1 comments
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by smalter 16y ago
i think within most big law firms, there may be an enormous team which reviews documents, but when it comes to drafting documents, even at the biggest firms those teams are relatively small. i helped draft a section of a 2000 page document
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by smalter 16y ago
the procedural history of cuban's case is somewhat confusing. there are actually two ongoing suits right now. one is the insider trading lawsuit. the sec's suit against cuban was dismissed by a district judge in dallas for failure to state
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by smalter 16y ago
as a former lawyer who has handled large and small document reviews, i can say that both doc review platforms i used, concordance and caselogistix are horrendous and there is certainly an opportunity here for someone to do this right.
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I came, I saw, I lost in the first round of Startupcraft SF(blog.leasely.com)
2 points by smalter 16y ago|0 comments
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On Startups and Starcraft 2's Diamond League(blog.leasely.com)
8 points by smalter 16y ago|2 comments
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Lawyer to Startup Founder Day 0(blog.leasely.com)
4 points by smalter 16y ago|0 comments
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by smalter 16y ago
what's the moral of this story? you most likely, even if you make a good amount of money, will not escape the anxiety associated with money. or, escaping the anxiety associated with money is not accomplished by making money. the idea of
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by smalter 18y ago
fundraising is easier if everyone's in the same spot, because raising money has to do with building relationships and that's best done (perhaps?) with people local to the team. investors get to know the team, etc, then invest in them. in th
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by smalter 18y ago
yes, you make the good point. the author of the piece is a historian. he's not only bemoaning the eradication of freud, marx, and hegel from their respective disciplines, he's bemoaning the scientific-ization of those disciplines themselves
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by smalter 18y ago
simple: girl to guy ratio
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by smalter 18y ago
yes, that's true. on the flip side, if the meaning of wealth is to have what you want when you want it (apart from ownership), then we're getting closer to an understanding of wealth apart from having $$$, and sometimes this is worthwhile t
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by smalter 18y ago
http://www.2ch.net/
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by smalter 18y ago
i dunno about the safest seat on the plane, but i recently found out that the most comfortable seatw on the plane--first class aside--are the exit rows seats because you get extra legroom. i used to avoid them because i thought the window s
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by smalter 18y ago
someone tell this to david blaine
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by smalter 19y ago
but seed money isn't geographically constrained. even if i live in pittsburgh, i can apply and get yc funding or any other kind of seed funding and bring it back to pittsburgh. therefore, any government funding program still has nation-wide
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by smalter 19y ago
wow, i wonder what work you were supposed to be doing.
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by smalter 19y ago
one trick to avoid exhaustion from too many choices: short circuit when you get a satisfactory outcome, even if it's not optimal. e.g., ordering food at a restaurant or watching tv, if i find a menu item or a program that's good enough and
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by smalter 19y ago
i think "exit strategy" when coming out of the mouth of a founder usually means exit from illiquidity rather than exit from the business completely. exit from illiquidity just makes sense (as paul graham and legions of corporate finance pro
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by smalter 19y ago
"There were three founders – me, Steve, and Alexis. Steve and I did the programming and Alexis handled promotion and customer service and office management and business development and the myriad of other tasks that came up." -a chat with a
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by smalter 19y ago
this article makes the good point that the mba types who are running vc funds are fundamentally ill-suited for identifying and investing in technology startups. paul graham identified this as true for managers of startups as well; and this
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by smalter 19y ago
the piece here reminds me of an article about entrepreneurship and overconfidence. (see http://icf.som.yale.edu/pdf/overconfidence.pdf , i think). the paper writes that the most common trait among entrepreneurs is overconfidence under a ki
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by smalter 19y ago
i suppose that calling something a cult does imply a false god, but that's not what i meant. i didn't mean to suggest those who admire graham have a cultish mentality; instead i meant to refer to those who have a cultish view towards graham

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