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@satjot - can "they" detect what's installed on your smartphone? If yes, I can see how deep-linking would be a great feature for apps that have high value repeat purchases.

Congrats Jon! What wonderful news. We still need to grab dim sum with our families!

Downtown Oakland is awesome. Lot's of good food around especially if you don't mind walking a few blocks to Chinatown and you love Chinese food. BART gets you to Berkeley, San Fran…

I feel the same way about Oakland. It's a few minutes from a major university in Berkeley that cranks out research, technology, and talent. Bryan, if you're ever near the Oakland T…

Darius and I were in the same batch at YC and he was one of those guys you just thought would outshine everyone else. My takeaway from this excellent post was that once you start f…

Care to elaborate? I just found your comment interesting but I'd like to know what you're talking about.

If this company can pull it off, it'll have something far more substantive than a resume or profile on LinkedIn. As an art, software engineering lends itself to opinions and kudos …

Jessica - you always look like the happiest person in the world. It is infectious.

Where is there a current and crowd-updated list of accelerators? Does that exist?

Be the change you'd like to see.

It's unfortunate a few knuckleheads decided to "teach you a lesson." You can't please everyone. Thank you for wanting to contribute to the community and giving a gift to people who…

Care to elaborate a bit? I think it would be very helpful for me and some others.

Inside investors (those who invested pre-IPO) cannot "dump hard on day 1." In all IPO cases, insiders have a lockup period, generally between 60-90 days before they can sell any st…

Never mind - that statement referred to a startup in a recent batch while Wufoo was part of a much earlier batch. Interesting to note that there are probably a few Wufoos in the to…

My guess would be Wufoo.

While your advice makes a lot of sense, I think they can definitely get some traction with this idea. Here is a wrinkle that I think could work. Limit it to everyone that got an in…

Buffett may be a huge anomaly but he probably never had close to 50 positions in his stock portfolio at any one time. Some of the best investors concentrate.

Can you point to any multi-cultural societies that are economically and socially balanced between ethnicities? Would such a society be less prone to looting in the event of a disas…

This is a short piece that asks a very interesting question. There are a few anecdotal statements about how other cultures have witnessed large levels of looting during catastrophe…

Hey this was a very entertaining writeup by misstatiana. I liked sort of running around with these guys from finance on Wall Street to China to cream puff franchises to YC. I got t…

No, it shouldn't count as revenue. The money owed to merchants is considered a liability and is probably treated as Accounts Payable.