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Her stating her current salary would be detrimental. Her giving a suggestion of what she wants to make would not.

It is offensive to describe MegaUpload as a 'youtube/dropbox hybrid'. That intellectually dishonest comparison is an appeal to emotion.

Am I missing something, or is this just another guy who isn't a lawyer giving us "legal analysis"? What's next, are we going to swap out hacker-based content for technology content…

It could be worse, they could've invested in StickyBits...

This isn't some search for objective truth. It's me sharing my opinions and the supporting rationale in the hopes that somebody might find them useful when they run into this situa…

The goal of the equity adjustments is to keep the expected value (at time of compensation) roughly equal. The expected value of a $100k IOU from a startup is likely $10-20k. The ex…

I disagree with his assessment that it's fair for some founders to take cash now and others to receive only IOUs payable later. The second group face not only a time value of money…

The US government has been a staple of comedy for many, many years. See: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Will_Rogers His quotes from 80 years ago still sound timely.

When I read the details of the story, I feel like this isn't meaningfully different from a few years back when there'd be warehouses of DVDs or VHS tapes,and hundreds of duplicator…