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Something in the article that jumped out at me was: "But the couple still couldn’t raise money. As cash got tight, the founders asked their eight full-time employees, who are mostl…

I don't like to think about my caloric intake (energy input) in relation to what other people's caloric intake is. It's starting from a reference point that doesn't serve me reliab…

That's right, with the numbers looking similar when looking at proportions of energy consumption in buildings which is slightly different from just CO2 footprint. The operational p…

I did some quick calculations to understand their stated problem of needing to higher 40 more people since it is costing them millions in lost revenue each month. "The labor shorta…

The speed that the fire spread is incredible. It seemed just like another forest fire that is near a community we get up in Alberta and British Columbia. The coverage by the Nation…

I've travelled to a LOT of countries and here is my experience using Airbnb and Couchsurfing. The places that I used couchsurfing are the most memorable. I travelled for a whole ye…

What is your approach to looking at security for your hardware and data during prototyping and testing with early clients? How would you minimize what data is collected to maximize…

For those trying to build privacy and security into their products is there some resources for what should be done before putting a product out? I have seen a list from Brian Knopf…

We share a lot in common with our neighbours to the south and it seems that the drug overdose epidemic has been happening in Canada as well. With some very alarming rates of increa…

The HBR article was written in 2008. It seems like more investors are wanting (or more like finally allowing or being forced by the market) founders to remain in control. YC starte…

You can look at outsourcing creating content for your company. What you write about should be beneficial to your readers and users so simply just putting up posts week after week i…

It is happening on my late 2013 Macbook Pro. It seemed like 10.10.2 either fixed the problem or reduced it to me not noticing. But the 10.10.3 update has made working remotely incr…

$50 is a small investment if you think about how much time it would take to get back to HTML circa 2015. I downloaded but haven't started the trial version of Pinegrow, so I can't …

I'm hoping to try the co-working vacation this year to see for myself if I'm still as productive in a new city or country without being distracted by wanting to explore this new pl…

I don't think I would, currently don't pay for any news subscriptions. As someone, mentioned it's free. Which is interesting because even though I can get my TV shows and movies fo…

You're right on that dynamically it is a very interesting problem and something that from my exposure to economics, economists seem to spend very little time analyzing. Changes beg…

I see responsible debt with personal loans also playing important parts as loans to startups and corporate investments. It serves a function of distributing capital where it can be…