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Steve Jobs infamously sold all bout $1 of his initial stake in Apple, depriving him of untold riches. Pincus has been adamant about retaining as large a stake personally as possibl…

Umm, did you actually read the article? The former chief executive of the YouSendIt, a website where users can post files too large to send over email, has admitted to launching an…

How many queries per second could you do that with just a personal machine (i.e. not a cloud machine with huge bandwidth limits), before your ISP shut you off?

Disney, Viacom, Newscorp

Quote of the year: "If I had $8 million worth of easily convertible currency, there is absolutely no way I would store it on a public website like Mt Gox, no matter how secure I be…

Zynga, meet Vostu.

Chris DeWolfe raised $100 million.

Go cry in your MiG-29, Paul.

in with . Old meme is old! Writing a chat app is one thing. Writing a node.js 3D MMO is quite another.

Extrapolating this out ... Lakeside School, Philips Exeter or perhaps Collegiate ;)

People really need to learn the concept of "Expected Outcome" before they go headlong into "rejection therapy". For instance, what was his expected outcome if Steve Jobs had replie…

Together, we can end violence against elephants!

Let's count the ways in which the media, twitter, and even HN can be hypocritical: Driving cars that pollute the environment and force the US to wage continous war to secure oil. S…

Hey man, I'm doing it right now ... got a startup i've spent 10 months on that I'm still hoping I can make successful. Even though I could probably quit and pickup one of these 150…

Casinos won't go bankrupt because they are a monopoly protected by the state ( although the state(s) does not have allegiance any one them and is increasingly in the process of gra…

Yeah let me rephrase that: When the business is scamming customers, competition in a free market is not a pretty sight. And no, I'm not aloof enough to believe we have a truly free…

Sunk cost fallacy.

I'm quite happy that Swoopo is failing. Did you get the impression that I wasn't? I'd love for gambling to be legalized.

Great idea, no. Epic scam!? Yes.

Competition in a free market is not a pretty sight. That's why gaming commissions never stepped in -- they knew what Casinos have long known; without state protection of gambling, …

Ok, then, how does stealing sound? You can't really win this argument, man. No matter how you dice it, the FED is stealing from the American public to hand it over to financial ins…