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Bold move to take most of the round off the table for founder liquidity. Edit: I think this is great for the founders and I hope they gave a similar option to their employees who have been with them a…

I'm assuming it's some kind of tech job. Keep in mind there are thousands of people living in the city who make minimum wage. You're going to be doing substantially better than them. Fi…

Boom. Perfect example.

Posted this in another thread but what company would you trust to launch and maintain this kind of service? You need to know that when you kick the bucket in 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years etc that the swit…

I share your fears about its longevity. What company would you trust to launch and maintain this kind of service? I feel like WordPress.org or Wikipedia Foundation would be two companies with the righ…

How has Quora changed since they went into YCombinator recently?

Last time I tried to grab an Uber from the airport (around 4 weeks ago) it no longer worked. You could see rides in the area but if you tried to drop a pin anywhere on airport property it wouldn'…

What are you charging a client to build a site for them on Weebly?

Firstly the people running this are already incredibly wealthy by themselves. They more than likely funded the startup costs themselves, or through wealthy benefactors. They pay operational expenses f…

I'd love to hear more about your experience in negotiation. What resources do you recommend? Has this mostly come from experience or elsewhere? If you want to take it off list: dwyer.ed@gmail.com…

I believe if you offered market rates on these high risk loans there wouldn't be any profit. The default rate is too high to allow for market rates.

This is awesome. I have a feeling Instagram is going to be your biggest growth lever. No affiliate links?

You're assuming all startups pay below market.

jampoole is the original poster of the thread you're commenting on.

At what point do tech companies start making two factor authentication mandatory? It's one thing to say "We tell our users to use two factor authentication - it's their fault if they do…

The thing that I love about Assembly is that they're not afraid to take risks. There is a lot of unknowns about how this style of company might work and therefore a shitload of risk. The potentia…

My understanding is you don't "qualify" for rent control in SF. You automatically get it when you move into a building built before 1979. Then the landlord can only increase rent (as a …

Interesting question. INAL but I would suggest it's not reasonable grounds for search. Either way in this situation the defendant not only allowed the search but pointed out where to find the dru…

They're generating $1.8bn in business a year for contractors around the US. I assume this will be spent on fuelling growth and building a moat.

Loving the aesthetic of this site - breaking away from the mould of the billion other business podcasts. Having Keith Rabois for your first episode is a strong vibe too.

Well Amazon have started doing a local services marketplace. If they can become dominant they can start to control the flow of leads to these businesses and therefore control margins and pricing.

You're assuming the worst on all of these things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor Filling out surveys = providing your opinion. Could be completely anonymous…

The challenge of not having taken funding as well is that you can't use your last valuation as a bench mark. ie they offer you $1m, you can't say "Well, that's far below our last v…

They say it's out there in a blog post, so it must be true.

Are you planning on moving out of teaching into development?

This is great. I love the idea of the salty old fisherman but would also love to see comedians, artists and amateur historians. Ricky Gervais' tour of the Vatican, Louis CK's tour of Brookly…

"Number of nuclear energy companies in the current batch: 2" Awesome. I can't seem to find these two companies yet - have they announced or still under the rader?

Exactly. And if you're actively seeking out more candidates who are women you're likely to get a better gender ratio than companies who aren't as proactive.

It's relatively common for their to be a gap between local and remote developers. Buffer have been incredibly transparent about their approach to this: http://open.bufferapp.com/i…