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California badly needs to be taken down a notch with all the age discrimination and wage fixing that's been going on there. NYC shows that it's possible to do vastly better on those. Or at least not to brazenly laugh in the face o
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I edited my comment. What I meant to say was the application acceptance step, not the interviews.
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Lots of interesting info. I'm also interested in how the switch from 4 founding partners, to 20 partners has affected what kind of companies they accept. Seems to be far more B2B and marketplaces, whereas before there was more B2C. Als
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Lovely parody on how to do statistics to reach totally wrong conclusions.
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I did not say that anyone could be immunized from being pursued. Every party making a ton of money in trading gets pursued.
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The intention of a trader on these kinds of markets is to make money. End. Telling him that you'll arrest him, or that he should feel bad, if he doesn't have the intentions and morality you want him to have - does absolutely nothi
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You say it as if lawyers pursuing investment firms for every reason imaginable is a new thing.
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His only big mistake was to not use the obvious loophole that traders have been using for decades - put some kind of slightly black-box automated system between you and the market. Train that system to do what you want, but now it's be
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I was unclear. Of course they have no hesitation about consuming US products or services. I meant about adopting the US business culture & investment habits in their offices.
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The Angel List application process is horrible. Surprisingly horrible. It pastes all of your private answers to your public profile without even asking, it sends no confirmation emails when you submit, it's junk. Feels like something a
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From that page: > Should everyone apply to First Round through the OpenApp? > No. The best way to reach us is still through a referral.
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FYI - to highly ambitious people, just "living a comfortable life" sounds like hell. They wish to strive for far more, even if doing so is uncomfortable. Decent, reasonable, comfortable - hardly the sales pitch you'll want to
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So the best tech hub in Europe is - not in Europe? Figures. :) True though, serious stuff seems to be happening with Israel. I even know of a growing number of US-based startups who've been raising parts of their rounds from Israel-bas
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It's a classic "market for lemons". The best EU VCs move or get moved to Silicon Valley. The ones that are left are nearly always bad. Best description of them is a bunch of used car salesmen who would rather make their money
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No, the existing laws do not always force you to pay VAT for customers in other countries in the EU. This, according to the article, would. It's adding additional taxation. > I prefer medium sized ones anyway Infuriating, short sigh
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Just adding more taxes does nothing to create a more uniform landscape. For the Europeans, consider that Amazon & other US web companies got to charge 0% sales tax for almost their entire customer-base in the US, until they were far bey
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Misleading. This proposal decreases EU competitiveness by INCREASING the VAT taxes on digital goods. Until now, companies often haven't have to charge VAT for customers residing in a different country from the providing company. Now, t
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If you are absolutely sure that the seed round is secured then definitely take that and forget about the internship. > how would I break it to them that "sorry guys, I've got a better position" If the Google guys knew tha
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Suppose this is why the "Why now?" question keeps getting more important to VCs. Imagine a few decades from now, when practically every type of software startup will have been already been tried 100+ times. Maybe the increasing
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There already are many silicon valleys though: - NYC is the silicon valley of certain types of finance companies. - LA is the silicon valley of movie production companies. - When the space race was at full speed, there was a silicon valley
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VCs don't do first stage funding, almost never. What you're saying is not at all how it works in SV. The early stage investment typically comes from private angel investors who previously got rich from startups themselves, and inv
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> Overall, I think trying to ape SV is a waste of time; each country or district should try to leverage its own cultural elements that can bring success This way of thinking is so terribly wrong. Early-stage investment is absolutely cruc
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Or to be more specific, the people see being a MANAGER in an IT company as only viable long term career choice. A million middle managers, and a small portion of younger people doing most of the work. Business culture of slowness, rudeness,
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But VAT makes it worse than the US for tech startups in practice.
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Nice snapshot of the conventional Bulgarian mindset - that the government is at the root of, and the solution to all problems. The top real problems are obvious: 1) No angel investors. Particularly, no angel investors who got rich doing sta
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Something will replace coffee eventually. I refuse to believe that technology will never find a better productivity enhancer, with near-zero side effects like coffee. Adderall is not the answer as these journalists like to claim though. It&
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The problem isn't lack of buyers. National intelligence agencies spend billions per year buying information. Corporate espionage groups spend immense amounts to get access to information. Lots of buyers exist for information about busi
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Team startups vs team finance. We hate them because HN tells us they're on the other team.
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There's something wrong with you dude.
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I can't? Yes I can, I just made an offer. To be specific, I'll start the bidding at $20 for all the YC S2015 pitch ideas of the companies accepted to interview. Don't tell me what I want :)

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