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The Chef there won "Top Chef" one year.

It sucks so bad we are changing the name.:) Sorry for the typo, can't edit.

Amendment one is just a symptom. With that your should be able to figure out one of my cons.

The only place where the word scary is involved is the title on HN. It's not in the post that it links to.

You need to read the link I provided.

This article convinced me that stronger covenant not to compete agreements limit worker mobility, stifle innovation, and result in fewer startup companies.

This post was written by an attorney as I pointed out at the beginning of the article. Personally I am not opposed to non-competes in all forms. We have a law in Georgia already an…

The Green Banana Papers, Marketing Secrets For Technology Entrepreneurs is a good quick read that offers practical advice on what to do. http://bit.ly/GreenBananaPapers

I reached out to the primary author. He was not aware that it was online. While the paper has some factual errors and conclusions (I do not think that anyone within the Atlanta tec…

It was predicted that they would all leave.

You live in Akron, nobody is going to call you an elitist. :) Being the folks to come up with the concept and having $2 million in backing from Sequoia clearly puts YC at the top h…

It will be interesting to see if the ones that stay in Atlanta can get funded as well as the ones that are getting SV intros (a Shotput Ventures partner lives in SF and 2 Shotput c…

Thanks for the pointer PG. Great essay. There are like a dozen gem quotes in there. I will update my post with a pointer. To pull directly from the article a technology startup is …

If you can't convince at least one person that your concept is good enough that they should devote their time to it the idea is most likely not worth pursuing.

The challenge is prioritization. The uniqueness of an MBA is that it teaches how to think strategically about a business. While I can not articulate exactly 'what' it teaches, I do…

Here is a real example. Pretend like you are in a finance class. It's a case study. On Microsoft buying Yahoo! Determine how much Microsoft should be willing to pay for Yahoo! and …

In what may be heresy here on HN I am going to partially disagree with PG. Regional YCs may indeed be of the nth quality bucket, but that does not necessarily doom them to failure …

The Logistic Regression Markov Chain developed at Georgia Tech to predict results of NCAA tournament games does a good job at picking both upsets and late round game winners. A bit…

Amit Ranjan the co-founder of Slideshare, called it an "inspirational masterpiece." I suppose I could have gone in and written something up but at this point just should leave it a…