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Not just product placement, and not just "today" either. I can recall so many cartoons from my childhood in the 80's (He-Man and G.I. Joe come to mind) which were nothing but long-…

The long-standing prohibition of non-compete agreements in California is really the X factor in why it continues to be the innovation juggernaut. So many startups here are the resu…

Wealthfront states it more clearly here: https://blog.wealthfront.com/qualified-small-business-stock-... It’s a major benefit if you have the opportunity to early exercise your sha…

This isn't a Florida-specific thing. It's a requirement of the National Electrical Code (NEC) that grid-tie inverters shut down on grid power loss, for exactly the stated reason. E…

Yes, this. Whatever was used to share or transfer the files generated a cleartext log with MD5 hashes, which was written somewhere other than the encrypted volume.

When USPS first launched Parcel Post in 1913, people would "mail" their kids to relatives. No joke: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/24...

The idea that insurance won't cover fires from unpermitted, DIY stuff is mostly urban legend. Most homeowners' policies are what are called "all hazards" policies. They cover any k…

Here's a method to block calls from all 9,999 numbers in your area code & prefix who are not you: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/scam-calls-spoofing-your-own-...

Author's title is "Why A Lifestyle Business Beats a Startup" which implies that no one should be pursuing a VC-backed startup, in favor of lifestyle businesses. That would leave al…

I'm all for lifestyle businesses and side hustles. But some ideas really do require a lot of up-front capital. It's hard to imagine Tesla, SpaceX, Boom, or Nest succeeding as lifes…

Early exercise / 83(b) has another benefit that most people aren't aware of -- if the exit is at least 5 years out, you can exclude 100% of your gain from federal cap gains tax und…

This article makes a good case for having at least one early team member who knows how to build out physical infrastructure at scale, even if you initially decide on AWS / GCE / Az…

One thing that always strikes me about this kind of analysis or discussion is that it presupposes we have reached some kind of evolutionary final state -- that humans now possess a…

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+1 B2B SaaS here too, and targeted cold calling is our most effective lead gen channel.

No, no -- the ideal spouse / SO writes half the code, is your co-founder, and joins you at the meetups.

This seems like a reasonable idea, but I don't think it can last indefinitely. You will almost certainly reveal something that will allow someone to unmask you eventually, regardle…

This made the math crystal clear for me in a way I have not seen laid out before.

Kentik | San Francisco | Full Time | REMOTE, VISA considered https://www.kentik.com/careers/ Interested in building a distributed column-store time series database? Crafting a slee…