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There are a bazillion crowdfunding sites now, how is yours different?

This article unfortunately can't get its facts straight. Silicon Valley has a higher, not lower, unemployment rate than the average across America: http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.ca_sa…

ANYTIME a female quotes Neal Stephenson in passing, I'm surprised. Pleasantly surprised, but surprised nonetheless.

I would say it's especially true if you go the startup route. Typically programmers are not astute business people and get taken advantage of just the same. The only real differenc…

The same is true of startup funding. Beware the VCs! They use these same tactics so that if your startup is sold for $20m you can easily end up with zero, even as a co-founder, eve…

What in general is the experience you guys have from being CTO co-founder? Personally it hasn't turned out well for me, it always seems to be dominated by the business guy.

Uh, there's this thing called Oracle that essentially solves the scalable SQL problem. Sybase, DB2, and SQLServer as well. UPS, NYSE, AT&T, these guys are running huge Oracle and D…

It's perfectly legal for him to make his own US Delaware LLC, with a cost of maybe $300 a year in fees and accounting. There are numerous sites for doing so. Being Polish is no obs…

Something quite similar happened to me at FundsXpress when UBS forced the sale of the company. Even if your startup is successful, your most likely outcome is to get very little fr…

Remember that a huge chunk of VC funding in the US comes from Europe. Milner, anyone? Not to mention I know of at least three Austin area startups that began solely from capital ra…

There are other democracies in the Middle East, Iraq for one. Not to mention a country having kept half its population in a massive prison camp with no rights and the developed wor…

"I waste less time on mind-numbing activities like reddit" - what about posting to Hacker News?

Being a small-time local drug dealer with a few soldiers?

Zero equity isn't the problem, it's that convertible debt with quadruple dilution that's the problem.