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Founders should invest time and effort to ask for more board seats. The YC doc is a good start but if you follow this to the letter you may lose control in your B or C when the B a…

You could always try the startup for 1 year and see how it goes. This way you get past your cliff, and you will have a much better idea of whether or not it has a chance of becomin…

Its unclear what Peter Thiel is supporting with this donation. This candidate is highly inconsistent. Perhaps his bet is that if this candidate is elected, it will result in chaos.…

Great point. Editing my post to include this.

Offering to cover defense increases their overall cost. If they agree to provide defense up front prior to anyone filing, and they are able to file first, they are able to make the…

From personal experience, the moment someone does any work on a project they have a claim. The state of CA is extremely worker friendly in this regard. I've made this stupid mistak…

David and Chris are extraordinary entrepreneurs. I learned a lot watching them build Zesty week over week during YC W14. This is a hard business to build. Providing consistent serv…

Taylor Swift is signed to Big Machine Records (BMLG). Big Machine Records is distributed by Universal Music Group (UMG). I am sure BMLG/UMG received a sizable advance from Apple in…

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I live and work in Oakland. My office is 3 blocks from 19th street BART in the heart of uptown. There is so much incredible development happening in this part of the city. The Hive…

The base compensation is reasonable given the high cost of living in SF and the personal risk associated with the job. The pension is tougher to justify. Up to 90% of your salary a…

Not sure why this is ruffling so many feathers. There are thousands of great tech companys to work for that aren't on any Google, Apple or EBay "no-hire" list and vice versa. I fai…

Disclosure: I am biased (Noora is in our YC batch). That being said, what Noora is doing is very important. If patients and caregivers have better education on what to do post trea…

Apologies if my post felt unnecessarily snarky. Yes I am cofounder @ Immunity Project, but I previously helped create Redbox Tickets so I have that hat on for this thread. My opini…

This feels gimmicky. How does this help solve real issues with admission control? The idea of admitting based on a face vs. a barcode for a reserved show won't work. Assuming this …

Congrats Sam! Thank you for the ridiculously good advice you give us and our fellow YC founders. The future is very bright for YC.

Hey this is Naveen from Immunity Project. We had a great experience w/ Crowdhoster. It performed well for us and Ajay + team were super responsive. Highly recommend it for those wh…

We are using TrueVault for Immunity Project. We have some bias since TrueVault is in our YC batch, but Jason and Trey worked 24/7 to help us with our HIPAA compliance needs. They u…

Thank you for the kind words and support! We are very focused on our stated goal which is ending HIV/AIDS with a free vaccine. We haven't received any pressure to stop our work yet…