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In your example of 'an investor who waits like that is going to end up paying a much higher price', the visionary investors who said yes to the convertible note will get a very sim…

To be clear, we wanted to setup the program with a complete handle on reality and to be supportive of many different options on financing - bootstrap or institutional - and where t…

We fully intend to be very open about the way we do business and bring a local angle on the type of great stuff folks like venturehacks have done in the US. Also, for Aussie startu…

+1 for JIRA

Twitter seems at exactly the same point Friendster was when it found itself deciding between a Kleiner round or an acquisition by Google.

One point about the index funds (besides from being very hard to beat the market even working full time on it) is that the huge fees compounding on hedge and mutual funds also take…

Malcolm Gladwell (New Yorker) John Hollinger (ESPN) Paul Graham Warren Buffet

I would second the Sitepoint premium marketplace. Here are a few that are in similar ranges: http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctions/34096 http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctio…

Paul, why do you call the firms clones? Aren't you a clone of a seed stage incubator? I absolutely love what you do but to say that there are clones in the investment world (where …

+1 for Startup.com + War Games. Aardvark is lame.

One idea: Create two companies, a US company and a company in your local country. You local country affiliate can pay your salary and the US company can pay the foreign company lik…

A quick and dirty analysis of the deal terms, company and who got what.

One word: Indexes. See what queries are taking the most time, and then add indexes to them. Can speed up your app by 1000x if there is one query that is running wild.

I completely agree. Seed financing is inherently unscalable. Investment partners need to spend a lot of time per investment and that severely limits their output. Just like Sequoia…

Honestly, you'll waste your time. They'll see you coming from a mile away. A fantastic source of market research is from larger public companies. Look up their most recent 10-K (an…

Here's a great site that pings and monitors shared hosting accounts. Price isn't really a correlating factor. http://www.realmetrics.com/r/shared-hosting

Err yeah sure that will work. My advice: read the four hour work week. Not for the four hours but for putting you in a position to work for yourself and work as an employee. Focus …

I've used all the freelancer type sites (elance, rentacoder) and have found oDesk.com to be the best. Primarily because you can get candidates to do technical tests (i.e. javascrip…

We use JIRA from Atlassian and love it. http://www.atlassian.com/jira

I run another social news site (realestatevoices.com) and captcha doesn't help. The people inputing these links are 'SEO' firms based out of India. Validating email accounts is wor…