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Redhat, people care about you. Focus on those who take care of you the most. For many of us that is family, but if not family, your friends away from startupland. If not them, we'l…

What people don't understand is, patents legally are valued under the legal standard of roughly 'patents that win in court are real patents, those that lose, are not' This means th…

Product guy really boils down to Generalist vs Specialist. Maybe it is 'Versatilist.' The product person can't be an expert in for example, cryptography, and simultaneously be an e…

Ah, there is something I can get behind. Other firms attempting to recruit your people is a sign you've hired good people. Also, a sense that employees have a choice of where to wo…

Retaining great people is something you earn. You don't earn it by daring you hope others attempt to poach your employees to test their devotion. You're a startup, not a religion.

When someone who was really awesome leaves, takes five great people with them right when you've hit a rough patch, you will regret the hubris in writing something like this. Every …

Mr. Bloomberg, please continue full speed ahead on technology innovation in New York. The statement that the day is coming that people will not remember that New York was not the #…

Exactly. The end of the PC era doesn't give rise to the 'iPad era,' it gives rise to Ubiquitous computing, and Apple knows this. The trajectory goes: mainframe: one computer, many …

I'm undecided about "visualizing the movie they make about you." I think every startuper who has seen "The Social Network" or "Pirates of the Silicon Valley" has done this. However…

This article makes several valid points, but the overall 'hook' or theme doesn't really make sense. Steve Jobs was very nostalgic, greenlighting the original 'think different' camp…

Seems like a fun revitalization of delicious, and these guys will have plenty of resources to experiment.

Hate to break it to you man, but most readers of HN probably weren't even born yet in 1986, much less using the internet in 1986. Maybe there is a Zen Koan in here: "What did your …

I think the post was a decent attempt to do something similar to OKcupid's insightful blogs. The difference is that okcupid had data in their database that is deep, and the team ha…

The problem with this post has always been it starts out from the outset with a title that implicitly puts down a large segment of students. Had Joel dug deeper into how someone co…

Pricing them at $99 with the current inventory amounts to almost a hundred million dollars in what would have been losses to establish a beachhead. Except, there is no beachhead to…

It is interesting the level of poker these tech firms are starting to play with each other. We don't see these announcements playing out the way they would have in the gogo 90's, b…

I never understood why ripping this experiment off was novel. If I put a 100 dollar bill on the street and said "take it, and do something charitable with it," and you subsequently…

Really just seems like they're adding fuel to the fire. Its kind of a boneheaded move, as people will just organize the old fashioned way the next time around. Just silly.

I don't think anyone had that feeling when the deal fell through. Many people were surprised Google was interested in the first place. Google had to consider the deal, after all Gr…

This is pretty simplistic thinking. For all you know Groupon wanted the deal badly, Google walked away from the deal, and both parties agreed to go with the story that Groupon walk…

Small bit of help here: It turns out the magic word for finding short term places in SF is to search "furnished apartments" in yelp or google rather than "short term apartments," e…

I think ultimately what might happen here is that the government will regulate VC to make it difficult or illegal for fundraising rounds to be used primarily to pay off earlier inv…