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Where are the consequences for discriminating hosts? This feels like lip service.

Remember when Sam tweeted this at DMC a while back? It sounds like he has revised his position. @davemcclure way to help startups is not to be super busy with travel etc, but to si…

First Round Capital does this on their blog. Reject subscribe popup requires clicking "No I don't want to learn more"

We have really enjoyed Bonus.ly, our team loves it at Looksharp. Great team too! (Disclaimer - I am an advisor)

Congrats to Brett, David, and the rest of the amazing Remind team for reimagining how teachers connect with parents and students.

Yeah, not impressed. I think it sounds far more pretentious to refer to yourself as a CEO when you run a company of 5 people - that's always made me a bit uncomfortable. Entreprene…

Sam - This is standard fare not just for accelerators but VC term sheets as well. Curious if you apply your logic in that case as well?

Feels directionally correct.

Don't work anywhere that you're treated like a child. That "incentive program" is infuriating.

That massive looking graph increase is only $6 since 2006.

Many (or most) of the great technology companies have technical founders that benefit tremendously from a successful exist. Equating "business guys" with "the man" who get all the …

This move is unethical for a very clear and straight forward reason. Demo Day at 500 Startups is "invite only". The YC company was not invited. People are invited for very targeted…

This is a really good, thoughtful article. I've had the same experience as more founders reach out and seek advice, but rarely do I strongly suggest a path that hasn't already been…

"Ben is using his power and time (and trust me he is the only one doing this) to build and advocating and acting on the design and construction of an authentic network that facilit…

That's just badass

Have you done an accelerator program? We did 500 Startups and while some startups obviously don't make it - I think that if you ask the founders on the whole there will be overwhel…

Cool.

Author here - good point about bandwidth. We typically see that companies that can't afford to pay "x" interns typically don't have bandwidth to manage "x" interns.

Author here - The unique requirements at many Silicon Valley companies for rapidly scaling teams require robust, well paid, competitive internship programs. The famous perks at Goo…

Author here, good question. We see that tech internships are much more likely to be paid, in large part because technology companies recognize the tremendous value of internship pr…