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Two obvious omissions from this list are Lars Dalgaard (SuccessFactors) and Mike Lynch (Autonomy).

I'm sure this is both true and reasonable for some companies that did notes with absurdly high caps earlier (which many have) and are now raising more money. Nothing to see here.

This was the Global Challenge, a pretty unique event in that it was designed for a crew of amateurs with a professional captain. More here: http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet…

This also helps: "In 1999, Nguyen sought to catch the burgeoning unified messaging movement by the tail by founding a company to develop an Internet-based solution. Onebox.com was …

I have a production-only thinking_sphinx / sphinxsearch bug that I just have not been able to figure out. I want to hire someone in the Bay Area who can pair with me this weekend t…

The pro move for non-technical founders who have financing before a technical co-founder is to hire an employee as a 'technical founder' - but with a comp package that has more (gr…

effective trial strategy does not involve any super-secret coca-cola formula strategems - the secret is exactly as described in steveblank's post: this lawyer is very effective b/c…

working backwards from your goals is the best advice i've heard in a while. in the particular case where you've raised a lot of outside capital it can be pretty easy to forget how …

Susan Koger, Modcloth Also - an awesome interview would be Anu Shukla (ex-Offerpal, among other companies)

several of my pakistani friends say that their parents used to go to kabul in the 70's for a break because it was much more cosmopolitan and progressive than pakistan. it's importa…

I immediately wondered how the Rodney King case would have been different if it was affected by a law of this kind. Does anyone know if the video footage would have been inadmissab…

I learned from this (surprisingly interesting MSFT history) that Bill & Paul didn't formalize even a simple partnership between the two of them, let alone incorporate for about the…

WRT buying out: get to a point where you both agree it's a bad fit, and that he has better prospects elsewhere, then 'buy him out' for a token - seriously, like $1.

J.F.D.I.

independent of this article making a very good point, i appreciated the grouping of 'java applets' with html5 as an example of 'cutting edge' tech on the web!

Thanks for posting - it only took about 2 minutes on the site before I clicked through and bought it on Amazon!

yes, that is what it means

By far the most important aspect of this potential deal has been totally overlooked in the articles and comments I've read so far. ITA powers Kayak & Bing/Farecast and has the dire…

i find a very helpful concept here is the 'appropriate level of abstraction'- when making some assertion, make sure that the language you use and the claims that you make are speci…

A real benefit I have found in not tracking bugs is that the constraint makes you much less cavalier about introducing complexity in the first place, which is totally a good thing.…

Among many other things, I thought it was interesting to 'anchor' the fashion vertical around $40CPM as a comparison to LinkedIn (business/recruiting vertical), reportedly around $…