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"Yelp buries reviews by one-time posters" might be a more accurate title. Yelp is trying to build a community of reliable reviewers, not display every review of an establishment, b…

"Yelp buries reviews by one-time posters" might be a more accurate title. Yelp is trying to build a community of reliable reviewers, not display every review of an establishment, b…

This article is out of touch with what it's like to not yet be a financially independent, respected, and successful entrepreneur. Making a few million dollars, one path to which is…

Only those in the cockpit needed to know. The rest were in charge of subduing the passengers and could have been told they were hijacking the plane for ransom, or to meet demands, …

When humanoid robots become passable as humans, I would expect us to have technology capable of distinguishing between warm blooded humans filled with water and robots filled with …

> surely no shortage of people willing to die to do that I think there is a major shortage of people willing to be suicide bombers. There is a grand fallacy out there that the worl…

I am not suggesting people form corporations as a first step, only that they come to a general consensus on equity and commitment as early as possible. Personally, I've had long di…

> if Zuck was operating Facebook under the same legal entity as the candy store in which his partner had equity, said partner might have a claim, though it would be hard to establi…

I agree in the beginning - "get to work and build a product." Spending a day or a week on something without having this difficult conversation is not a huge risk, but don't spend m…

I ultimately decided not to join a cofounder who was in a situation analogous to this. An investor owned > 1/3 of the company, but cash was almost gone and the original idea had fa…

Could you guys expound on why this is the "right thing?" I see this very differently. Personally, I would never have agreed to this based on my understanding of the situation. It's…

> We have laws in this country to prevent people from getting screwed. Work with people you like and trust, and focus on building a product, not on what your "stake" is. The most i…

You are certainly entitled to give up whatever equity you like, and perhaps you are a better man than me for not feeling you deserve such a minor stake. If you feel you did the rig…

Two former cofounders with a combined 1% of equity should not have any effect on the future of the company. Even if it did have some minor impact, those shareholders earned and des…

If the early shareholders invested significant time and effort into the business, I don't see why it's 'right' for them to give up their shares. While they are certainly entitled t…

(I'm trying to ask a legitimate question here but seem to be filtered by HN's impossibly bad spam/hellbanning system. Perhaps this text will make this post different enough or prov…

All of these solutions assume all users are the same. You could of course fragment users and test within the fragments, but how do you determine the fragments - gender? income? lan…

All of these solutions assume all users are the same. You could of course fragment users and test within the fragments, but how do you determine the fragments - gender? income? lan…