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Except it was not leaked by Postmates. Full stop. On the broader subject, even if numbers are quite good, there are many reasons why private companies do not want this data to be o…

It is entirely fabricated. The team have never conducted themselves that way. Sad this was posted.

This is generally true, most VCs are afraid of things that have strong technical risk. But the point of the post is that starting a few years ago some VCs are finally catching up t…

Except that article is dead wrong. The court decisions were a convenient scapegoat that had nothing to do with the shutdown whatsoever.

i've spent well over an hour in the latest prototype with no sickness, and in the dev units I can last 5 minutes tops.

Palmer choose Brendan as his partner to help transform Oculus from a project into co-founding a company because they wanted to work together. To characterize him as an "investor" s…

That is of course exactly what Startups do today. And it feels unfortunate. "Wait, you have me cash just to spend it on your legal bill?"

Well put pg. It isn't that the money was that material, it just felt wrong and petty that it was being done in the first place so we wanted to fix it. Just feels silly we didn't do…

no, they are definitely not going to all be big businesses. for every Zynga there are plenty of RockYou's (or Free Gifts) that grow but never turn into sustainable businesses. but …

I like your core point. If you aren’t building something of value, then the press doesn’t matter you won’t last anyway. But the “90% of Techcrunch companies are gone in 6 months” s…

37signals seems to like this topic.. The last time they sounded off on why half-assing it is a good idea, I reacted just as viscerally as this post. Since they did a redux, I will …

Yeah, the data was just software companies. So no Apple, Nokia. They also didn't have Google or Yahoo, which was unfortunate. Still, in terms of top 100 software companies, it's a …

This was starting with the premise of "success" -- let's assume it's a world class idea and hits $50m in revenue, goes public, and becomes one of the top 100 software companies in …

Hi. Nabeel here. To be clear this should not be thought of as conclusive academic analysis. These were just interesting indicators that I found. I was using the data that was avail…

"The pressure for a startup to go towards conventional wisdom is intense" is probably what I should have headlined this article as.

As someone else mentioned, both David Cohen and Brad Feld have a history in Boston, it's where they got their start (as it has been for many others thanks to MIT and Harvard). Ther…

I'm in Huron village, and it's about as suburbia as I can stand. But, hey, to each his own. Not to worry about Boston, there's actually an interesting announcement that will help f…

good to hear you guys are sticking around for a little bit.

good article. but i may be biased. :)