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"you are buying yourself a job?" Bingo. And the prospect of growing the business to a point where it can sustain a team and be less reliant on you. If the business can run without any input …

The best companies aren't sold, they're bought. ;)

Stock in a public company is far more liquid. A larger software company is also likely to have employees, big clients etc. If you're looking to sell and walk away from a founder-run SAAS startup …

eCommerce overall http://trends.builtwith.com/shop Trending up and to the right http://trends.builtwith.com/shop/WooCommerce …

More than a few of the companies you might call "top startups" hire exclusively from the alma mater of their founders. ie Stanford, Harvard. Still hiring exceptional developers but with a sl…

Actually my point was that given OP is from Somalia there are a lot of Somalian expats in Melbourne, and Also restaurants, which might make it a more attractive location to migrate to.

What's your point exactly?

Australia also has a huge Somalian community (particularly in Melbourne) = plenty of great restaurants. :)

There are a ton of companies out there hungry for great talent and who hire from overseas, help with visas etc The larger ones will fly candidates in for final stage interviews to meet face to face. I…

Really dig that the first pass doesn't eliminate those who studied at schools other than Stanford.

You think Dave Morin hasn't taken any money off the table? You're kidding yourself.

The number of brands on that list is incredible. How big do you think the businesses behind them are?

Kind of related: Ellen Pao has said she has ended salary negotiations at Reddit to try to prevent gender bias. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/reddit-ceo-ellen-pao-ban...…

My girlfriend was in a similar position. Her company knew it and knew that she knew it and eventually came through with a 55% promotion. Too little, too late. She then took that confidence boost and c…

Well in an up round they would probably participate and the value of their stock goes up either way so they're winning.

Overvaluation is fine if they have put in place protections for their capital, like liquidation preferences and anti-dilution clauses for down rounds. In that case by pumping up a companies valuation …

Ouch! Assuming I'm being downvoted for GoDaddy?

GoDaddy | Product Manager - Managed WordPress | Sunnyvale, CA or Phoenix, AZ | Local GoDaddy is investing heavily in their people, culture and products but we have a long way to go. We launched our ma…

You see these exact same design tropes throughout all newspapers around the world. Remove the language and it looks like three different papers I know in Australia and half a dozen in the UK. Or is th…

This is going to be used as a case study of why not to let founders take cash off the table in early rounds for years to come.

This is great. Here is a list of 20 (now) huge sites from when they launched. Apple and Twitter are particularly amusing. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6125914/How-20…

"sometimes a company like Apple starts developing something internally so when they do an acquisition they have a pretty good idea on the model and have an existing team to integrate with" B…

They're an incredibly innovative company. As an innovative company they try out lots of different ideas. Most of those ideas are going to be relegated to the dustbin. But the ones that work can t…

"instead of a giant fake fingernail " This is V1. This could be as thin as a thick layer of nail polish.

Maybe percentage determines voting power but there are plenty of mechanisms that can and are used to retain control at the equity percentages we are talking about.

If we forget about the percentages they own and focus on the value of their stock we see that their stock goes likes this: $0 $9m $37.5m $130.5m $247.5m I suspect that the founder ownership percentag…

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