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The chart at the bottom is the most interesting part of this blog post. Rap Genius has raised $15M from a group of premier investors including Andreesen Horowitz and yet their comp…

When it comes to ISOs, are there any tricks/loopholes to avoid the cash commitment required for early exercise but also somehow become qualified for long term capital gain tax trea…

In fairness to Crazy Eddie, they're prices were INSANE!

Pretty sure data scraping is their pivot, as articulated in this article.

Not only are these Mattermark posts becoming quite boring and repetitive, but for the company's sake it's time to move on. Readers of HN aren't going to make a purchase. And if ent…

Not exactly. Here's a quote from the article: "The watch is lovely. Truly. Considering that I paid $125 for it - a reasonable price considering its potential - I'm happy with it an…

This comment is terrible. For one, it's purely anecdotal with no evidence to support the statement "NYU is a school for rich kids". Have you really seen the wealth distribution of …

Agreed on the growth capital point completely. Was referring specifically to early stage capital in my comment - should have been clearer. Thanks.

Dear dumb entrepreneurs who want to raise VC: bootstrap instead. VC forces you into a 'go big or go home' strategy. There's nothing wrong with going big, but just do it the patient…

perhaps even worse than privco's non-stop rubbish "research" is the naive reporting on this story without seeking a second source to verify "the facts". would it have pained the wr…

The "aww shucks" card isn't going to fly. This is very much a content marketing campaign and HN is the soapbox right now.

All the points regarding why this post is so ridiculous have been thoroughly covered. I'm just pulling back the curtain on your exploitative use of HN as part of your grand marketi…

This is an advertisement for an eventual product. We may as well be discussing the merits of Ron Popeil's latest blender infomercial. So let's stop voting up every ridiculous artic…

A friend of mine recently received an offer from a series c healthcare company with ~$100m in funding. Seems the company is in the midst of raising a series d and so as a result ca…

Having personally attended numerous Bloomberg press conferences in NYC (through his affiliation with the local startup community), let me paint perhaps a more objective picture fro…

It appears that the company behind this study is running a business selling data - that's why.