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by xg 8y ago
A lot to unpack in your post, but some things worth mentioning: A. Savings rate is everything. How much can you save and get compounding? If you're high earning early in your career and can keep your costs of living down, you come out
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by xg 10y ago
There are some funds out there that will help employees exercise their stock options (for a %). 137 Ventures is one of them. Generally, these types of funds will only be interested in the stock of truly breakout companies.
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by xg 11y ago
Marco and Jonathan are the real deal as entrepreneurs—they always think for themselves.
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by xg 11y ago
Fun dialogue between Pete Wells (former Editor of NY Times Dining) and Helen Rosner (features editor for Eater): https://twitter.com/pete_wells/status/635499327918612481
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by xg 12y ago
I think the biggest qualification factor of a cash flow positive business mitigates quite a bit of risk (as long as there's some minimum bar of >= $50k / year). The part that's tough is: what's the use of raising addi
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by xg 12y ago
I love that this story is trending on Hacker News. The author, Paul Hoffman, is a close friend. It's nice when good work gets rediscovered here.
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by xg 12y ago
I've thought about executing something similar with friends. I think there's a market for it—but the question is how big you think it can be? ie: Birch Box works (sort of), because they're not paying for their merch samples.
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by xg 13y ago
Second on: completely arbitrary. If someone shows up in early days before a company has product market fit and is one of the people that truly shapes the business, call them whatever you want.
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On the Importance of Coffee(alexanderdou.wordpress.com)
3 points by xg 13y ago|0 comments
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by xg 14y ago
It’s hard to encourage and nurture positivity on the web. Tumblr’s done it by not explicitly building comments into the product—so if you’re going to say something critical, it shows up in your personal space. It's conflicting to build a gr
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The Iced Coffee Economy - Why the Cold Stuff Costs More - nymag(newyork.grubstreet.com)
3 points by xg 15y ago|0 comments
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by xg 15y ago
Two of the best collections of UI / UX patterns I know of: Chris Messina (factoryjoe on Flickr): http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/collections/72157600... Zach Klein on Evernote: http://www.evernote.com/pub/zachklein/generaluiux
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by xg 15y ago
strong preference for NYC, but will consider remote for exceptionally strong candidates.
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by xg 16y ago
Biggest question: how does Fabrice's analysis play out for someone that isn't extremely wealthy? Yes, if you have $20 M dollars and are talking about simply allocating assets he is probably correct. However, what about for the avg working p
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Rent vs. Own a Home, The Way to Analyze - FabriceGrinda.com(fabricegrinda.com)
2 points by xg 16y ago|3 comments
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by xg 16y ago
@joshu Do you have specific selection criteria for non-US businesses? And when you do them is there usually a business model from the get go?
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by xg 16y ago
Some notes on Instagram, aspirational self representation, and homogeneity.
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Instagram, Chuck Close, Digital Photography, and Social Software(christmasgorilla.com)
1 points by xg 16y ago|1 comments
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by xg 16y ago
I've also been using Greplin for a few days. For someone that uses multiple computers, accounts, etc--it's amazing.
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by xg 16y ago
Standard is a 4 year vesting period. So, for example, if a cofounder had 100,000 shares, they would vest 25k shares each year--possibly with a one year cliff. If you've already put considerable work into a company prior to any financing eve
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by xg 16y ago
Don't you think it's something like the following: think of a country's economy as a technology stack. You need to have the base levels of the stack in place before you can make more abstract things. In places like Africa and India, there's
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by xg 16y ago
Certainly not the biggest authority on this but couldn't find much other than AppEngine about 6 months ago. Here's what I did find: Media Temple has Django Grid Containers: http://mediatemple.net/webhosting/gs/features/containers.php... T
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by xg 16y ago
I say this as a former developer who created some of the first video chat rooms ever (CUworld in 2000). Talking to random people online eventually devolves into porn. You can't help it. Chatroulette got around that stigma by eliminating all
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by xg 16y ago
For political reasons, it's usually best to pay yourselves the same amount. Reasons for different amounts: children, loans, trust funds, etc. When you're medium successful, that may change if one of you is still CEO. For now, don't sweat it
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by xg 16y ago
Three questions: 1) Why do you find it harder to code these days? Does that bother you? It seems like you're still keeping up with a lot of python stuff from your delicious tagging. 2) Why hasn't anyone advanced the ball past delicious with
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by xg 16y ago
Nitrogen, as a contractor your taxes should end up being much lower. Anyone doing freelance work should absolutely hire an accountant to figure out what's deductable (meals, office space, tech gear). All of those expenses come off the top a
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by xg 16y ago
Everybody's comments are pretty much on point. If you're contracting, you should be asking for $75-150 / hour. Shops like Pivotal Labs bill out their developers at $175 / hour (the firm obviously keeps a chunk of that). I think your options
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by xg 16y ago
The biggest issue here is that most VCs are hesitant to invest in hits-based businesses. This means: they don't want to bet on you creating a hit game, hit show, etc before you have any user traction. If you have interesting proprietary tec
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by xg 17y ago
similarly, queries in google spreadsheets are pretty amazingly powerful.
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by xg 17y ago
I've met with people that use an app called TimeDriver. It's alright, but maybe not ideal (I found the experience both useful and cold at the same time). Perhaps you could warm it up by having goofy confirmation messages. It goes for $30 /

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