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by speby 16y ago
Funny, isn't this the same company everyone was predicting would #fail because it was "just another clone of Twitter" but for companies? Well, while they still could fail, they're getting away from that the longer they're alive...
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by speby 16y ago
There's prior art with "virtual currency" going back as long as the eyes can see. Even stupid old DOS Blackjack games where you got a virtual $500 to bet with is easily considered a form of virtual currency. This is why we need a public for
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by speby 16y ago
By all of our jobs you mean individual people. Google is a company so yes, I'd agree the people that work for Google are individually responsible for managing and fixing their systems of government but "Google" itself is just a virtual en
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by speby 16y ago
Google pays plenty in taxes... in the form of payroll taxes and employing thousands of people. Their "effective" tax rate is significantly higher than 2%+ quoted here. People forget that corporate income tax is the last resort of taxes afte
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by speby 16y ago
How is your application dealing with the changes?
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by speby 16y ago
As a co-founder of Poll Everywhere, you might do your homework first before publicly humiliating yourself demonstrating a lack of basic background research and fact-checking. Poll Everywhere is in no way a spam operation whatsoever.
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by speby 16y ago
I think this is a very common problem in any business. If I want to start a restaurant, and I'm a "business guy" I could maybe try to find a "chef" co-founder, which many people obviously do when they start restaurants, however if I know li
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by speby 16y ago
Interesting article. I wonder if the guy who invented the bicycle ever had an accident. Was it newsworthy?
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by speby 16y ago
Better yet, who cares? Take your chances and apply to YC. This must be your calling.
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by speby 16y ago
I wouldn't immediately assume Intuit is automatically the most likely acquirer.
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by speby 16y ago
Yeah, definitely over-estimate. And do so based on your confidence (and ill-confidence) of the overall effort. Generally speaking, the larger the project may be, the more likely a small error in estimation results in a huge problem later on
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by speby 16y ago
Probably whatever the guy who originally sold it for. It's like the millions of other domain names that get bought or traded everyday. To know, perhaps 10 years in advance, that the next buyer is going to turn it into a $500M+ valued busine
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by speby 16y ago
No kidding. I don't care that there is a significant portion of HN'ers that like him and agree with him. Maybe its more a problem with the HN community than with Gruber himself; a sign, perhaps, that the HN community has had its day. I have
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by speby 16y ago
I really want my $ back now.
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by speby 16y ago
It just depends. If the profit towards the end of the year isn't too bad, it's possible to pay as much of that out as possible as a bonus to founders and/or employees. Obviously, the company pays taxes on the wages (state/federal/medicare/e
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by speby 16y ago
Also FTA: "But she also badly wants to call a do-over on the last decade." Yep, I know how that feels. I'd love to call a do-over and make sure I invested in AAPL around 2001/2002 and maybe some more in a few other companies as well (even M
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by speby 16y ago
No kidding. FTA: "They and their families made borrowing decisions based more on emotion than reason..." Really, that is the justification in all this? I felt like I should get a loan (not "I truly need the loan because I've reasoned throug
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by speby 16y ago
Yea, really, who cares? The overwhelming majority of people will never use this feature.
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by speby 16y ago
I'm pretty sure drug dealers were not the first people to implement (or even popularize) this sort of marketing. It might have been school bake sales.
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by speby 16y ago
Good. Tell em! Even better that you're taking a real stand by putting your money where your feet are and moving on. Oh, shit, Posterous is free. Maybe send them a check for the valuable service they did provide you before moving on. And rea
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by speby 17y ago
Sounds like you forgot about it, looked the other way, and moved on, right? Did you build out your idea regardless? What happened afterwards?
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by speby 17y ago
Well, AMEN.
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by speby 17y ago
In the time you were first rejected to the time of the 2nd rejection, you could have done some things to save up the same seed money for yourself, established relationships with angels/VCs through networking, come up with an alternate idea
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by speby 17y ago
Agree. Based on some of the comments and re-tweets from educators themselves, it is clear that they are reasonable. They just want to pinch pennies (And who doesn't?). Unfortunately, there is a minimum level for us to charge that still make
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by speby 17y ago
This is actually the direction we're heading with PE. Thanks for the independent validation on this strategy.
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Should we even offer a freemium product?(blog.polleverywhere.com)
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by speby 17y ago
Seriously? There's even concern over whether startups "work as hard" Silicon Valley ones? If that's where they're at, then there is almost no hope? The concept "working hard" is just ingrained in entrepreneurship. If you don't work hard, wo
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by speby 17y ago
The same negative incentives to work are also, incidentally, not exactly "noticeable" to the general public. It is not as if people go around wearing signs around their neck indicating which government-subsidized programs they are eligible
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by speby 17y ago
Darn. Would love to go guys but I have business in Las Vegas next week... seriously, it's for business.
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by speby 17y ago
Yep. Classic stereotype and headline generation of an over-generalization to grab attention. Though she's wrong, she's right some of the time . That said, it probably means she herself isn't too bad at marketing since, after all, it certai

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