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I like how you slipped in the use of 'doodly squat' there - very fitting.

What benefit does having this law give? 'It also prohibits residents of certain buildings from renting their accommodations for under 30 days'

Disgusting how there's scumbags out there who jump at the chance to make some quick money, even if it means destroying the lives of others.

"... the consumer space and enterprise space are connected and become more so. Microsoft needs to be strong in the consumer space to remain strong in the enterprise." Not at all tr…

I've often seen the choice of having kids or getting married being used as a 'quick fix'. Usually for a failing relationship, insecurities or poor financial choices (benefits++). I…

It's all relative. Take a bunch of people of a similar background as Alex, education, opportunities. Then choosing the lifestyle he has is pretty rare. And if you can cope with the…

Often disease, disability and accidents are caused through poor lifestyle choices. Sometimes lots of little things add up and it's hard to see the true cause. I've not driven for 4…

Because HN isn't a politics site. In fact it's not even a tech news site. That's what the likes of mashable are for.

My objection is what's in this for me? How is this better than writing a CV? Try something like "Stand out from the hundreds of people applying for your next dream job by telling a…

“… The majority of the revenues for our products come from people who sign up for the paid versions upfront. So we definitely have people upgrading from free to paid, but the major…

Platforms for businesses to share real problems are already out there. Go sign up to forums for accountants, CPAs, real estate agents. What do they struggle with, what common theme…

Cool, thanks for being open about it

But if it made enough money to keep yourself and the others in a job then why ever declare it as a failure? Unless it didn't make enough money?

Just for fun and to hopefully one day avoid failing in a startup, I like to do post mortems. What I understood of Vinetrade is it struggled to make any income in a market which isn…

Right off the bat, it looks like the problem lies in 'we built a software product that simplified how nonprofits plan and measure their social and environmental impact.'. It just s…

'Many start-ups (and even growth firms) lack this discipline and they therefore serve customers off all sizes. This leads to suboptimal results for all.'

Here's a thought experiment for a hypothetical business which would be based in the UK and sell to customers in the UK only. What are the problems that would prevent it from workin…

maehhhh!

Any links on Google to pirated content are an initially unavoidable byproduct of crawling the web. Whereas providing access to pirated content was this guy's core business and valu…

They have the skills and a good idea of what people are prepared to pay for so why do they continue to build bespoke software instead of creating a startup?

I think in a way he's talking about newspapers getting back to their real roots as being genuine 'NEWS' papers. That's instead of the trashy gossip magazines that so many of them h…

@ksat - I think it's easy to get the wrong idea of what your site is for from the heading - "...having them develop a real web application". Of course building an entire web app ju…

I reckon this has mostly come about through the shift of guitar being seen as an instrument and more as a faux artistic accessory of a person's identity. Like those people who have…

Every time I see a discussion about university education, the wrong question is always being asked and debated: "Do you really need degree X for job Y?". Of course domain specific …

Does this guy actually run a successful tech startup? What makes him think so? Experience? Observations? Weird that an article like this would get written and then posted on here b…