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No one doubts that Amazon's customers love them and that Amazon is growing revenue at an incredible rate. The question is when and if will this revenue growth translate into increa…

Zynga is structured such that Mark Pincus has a majority of the voting shares (50.15% to be exact). This means he cannot be fired nor can any takeover occur without his consent.

HN is focusing far too much on the employee stock options. Once any company gets into a "dire financial situation", the options are already completely worthless. The worse alternat…

LPs commit money to new funds before the first investment is ever made. What type of information does the seller (VC) have that the buyer (LP) does not?

Read "The Hedge Fund Mirage" by Simon Lack

My interpretation is that OP is not arguing that BigCo's aren't currently making money. Instead he's saying that the amount of resources being pumped into the ecosystem (financing,…

The last question of the FAQ is this: >Can I export my Space’s to Wordpress, Tumblr, Blogger, or >another service? >Over the coming weeks we’ll provide you with specific >instructi…

There is a flaw in this argument. First they say that 56% of companies started in 2004 were still in business in 2010. Then they reference the VC rule of thumb that 4 of 5 companie…

Having lived in Silicon Valley, Seattle and Austin, my estimation is that the amount of money required for a family to live the same lifestyle (owning similar level home, access to…

To simplify - Spotify can never be profitable because they do not create or own the product they are selling. Also, the product they are selling is not a commodity so they cannot s…

Reminds me of when I first got a modem and was able to connect to local BBSes and discovered shareware. Huge selection of things that sounded cool but only ended up running once or…

This isn't completely accurate is Be Inc. did successfully IPO in 1999 and won a lawsuit against Microsoft.

Agree. What's even stranger is how differently we treat different types of deaths. Anything terrorist related is something that needs to be prevented from happening again, regardle…