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This is awesome. Twilight Struggle is one of my favourite games and the other implementations I have played are wrapped-up in too many unnecessary flourishes -- useless sound effec…

Hilarious game. I actually like this a lot.

Can you guys all share your wisdom on differences between seed/pre-A/Series A rounds? YC has done an amazing thing by standardizing first-round terms. But what is the next level? W…

> “The type of person who is attracted to these jobs and thus to the Seattle area seems to be... strangely entitled...." Arlene said that she was once contacted by a Microsoft prog…

Complex initial agreements are a bad sign and suggest a lack of proper focus on how to achieve growth and share success. But if you are getting pushed in this direction, make sure …

Why are you anything but a 100% supporter of democratic self-governance?

Milosevic was prosecuted by the ICC and died in jail four months before an almost certain conviction. The Pinochet case predates the ICC, but although the British government interv…

Not much to add, but congratulations!

He's an active angel investor in California. Also, he was hilarious in Dude, Where's My Car.

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Luke, Alnayyir isn't criticizing your desire to hire a friend. He is saying that the entire topic is judgmental and crass since it starts from an assumption of superiority over oth…

At risk of sounding like a complete asshat to apparently everyone else on this thread, a 9:00 - 4:00 workday is what I had in kindergarten. If I were running a company with this is…

I love the way Chinese is the only language that considers itself to be difficult.

Chill out and do it without a cofounder. :)

Don't ask people to play a role in your company unless they're going to work for it. Once you start growing people will want to be associated with your success and you won't find i…

> I've seen a lot of great "website designs" done in Photoshop that wouldn't make terrible websites due to load speed, structure, or other unconsidered elements. Agree. We've had d…

She's presumably talking to people who know Marc.

I don't see much evidence that the company was funding growth oriented small venture plays in China. Their role was to help Chinese companies line up foreign IPOs and cash out.

When you are not profitable you pay people as little as possible and deal in cash. Give work to friends and friends of friends at below market rates. Do not give out equity or anyt…

Price curves generally run the other way. More demand means lower price.

Those will all be software oriented as well.