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by wmorein 13y ago
I work for FiftyThree (the people who worked with Greg to make this). We're hearing from a lot of people interested in doing this - here is another example of a book made from sketchnotes: https://vimeo.com/75830198
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Ray Ozzie notes on 1985 meetings with Microsoft(docs.com)
3 points by wmorein 16y ago|0 comments
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by wmorein 16y ago
Yes, the basic idea is that if a founder has, for example, 25% of the equity in the company but is subject to a 5 year vesting they just don't get the shares that would have vested after they leave. If they move on after 2 years, that is 15
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Stock Compensation at Startups(piaw.blogspot.com)
2 points by wmorein 16y ago|0 comments
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by wmorein 16y ago
From the summary: - 37signals has 40 servers, and a total of 125 OSes running. - 3 Server admins work at 37signals. That is insteresting. Most orgs would consider that a pretty low ratio of servers/admin.
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The PearPad: A Cautionary Tale for Founders(epaley.posterous.com)
2 points by wmorein 16y ago|0 comments
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by wmorein 16y ago
Apple is definitely not "minute" in the smartphone market, although obviously how you define the market is key. It is an interesting thought experiment to think about what would happen if the iPhone OS did start to head up in market share (
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Notes from the No Lone Zone - A computer scientist looks at ICBM security.(crypto.com)
44 points by wmorein 17y ago|13 comments
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by wmorein 17y ago
My recollection of a mathematical finance course I took was that early on we spent about 30 minutes going through the caveats you mention and that were covered in the article, and then they were promptly forgotten or ignored for the entire
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by wmorein 17y ago
To me one interesting thing about this article is that -- relating specifically to the question of whether you can get rich by picking a "safe" job -- it is actually incorrect. The changes in corporate compensation practices are such that,
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Where in the world is Eduardo Saverin (story from early Facebook)(larrycheng.com)
21 points by wmorein 17y ago|1 comments
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Zombie Operating Systems and ASP.NET MVC(blog.bitquabit.com)
88 points by wmorein 17y ago|21 comments
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by wmorein 18y ago
The thing that is frustrating about this to me is the following: Imagine that two years ago, a giant hurricane hit somewhere and AIG's insurance business wasn't properly reserved/diversified. The losses were just too huge to absorb. Now, si
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by wmorein 18y ago
It really feels like some sort of joke talking about how much faster they could go bankrupt would be appropriate here.
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by wmorein 18y ago
I don't think that this article is really telling the whole story. The implication seems to be that things just need to be reported in XBRL and that all the information people doing analysis need is there (just not in a consumable format).
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Does A/B testing lead to crappy products?(andrewchenblog.com)
32 points by wmorein 18y ago|4 comments
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by wmorein 18y ago
"If you look at government bonds (a.k.a. TBills), they'll tell you exactly how much interest a truly risk free investment is worth" That used to be true, but it isn't strictly true any more. The Credit Default Swaps for US Treasuries are pr
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"Another Reason Friedman's Wrong: Most Startups Bomb"(businessinsider.com)
1 points by wmorein 18y ago|0 comments
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by wmorein 18y ago
This is what I use as well. I'm surprised there aren't more users here.
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by wmorein 18y ago
Google is very flat by reputation, but that is not an unequivocal good. If your manager is also managing 50 other people, to the extent that you would benefit from management you are probably not getting those benefits.
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by wmorein 18y ago
I think that the other big con for idea 3 is that this is very likely to follow an enterprise sales model. Security in general is the kind of thing that is purchased relatively high up in an IT org. Not 100% clear if your idea would be in t
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Kara Swisher on the ugly spectacle of speculation on Jobs(kara.allthingsd.com)
1 points by wmorein 18y ago|0 comments
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by wmorein 18y ago
One interesting thing to me is that even if you do this (correlate compensation with longer term results) a lot of the same problems still happen. Take, for example, the first big hedge fund blowup: Long Term Capital. Shortly before they bl
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by wmorein 18y ago
I think he means this: http://www.scribd.com/doc/9932346/Incubator-RoundUp-SeptDec-...
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A Quick And Dirty Guide To Starting Up(krisnair.tumblr.com)
6 points by wmorein 18y ago|0 comments
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Zine: Python Blogging Software(broadcast.oreilly.com)
1 points by wmorein 18y ago|0 comments
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by wmorein 18y ago
Solr ( http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ ) is a web search engine built on top of Lucene. It should get you most of the way there.
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by wmorein 18y ago
If anyone knows of any additional links, add them in the comments here and I'll add them to the page.
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Links to startup anecdotes (poor man's Founders at Work)(wmorein.com)
2 points by wmorein 18y ago|1 comments
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by wmorein 18y ago
In Jobs's specific case, for a while he held no equity and also drew no salary.

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