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The official recommendations to sailors is: Shut off the engine, take down the sails, make no sound, wait. What sailors will admit they do but not tell anyone: Dump a bit of diesel…

Assuming your company is established enough, consider working towards a COO ("integrator") to partner with you in running the business. More here: https://www.eosworldwide.com/blog…

My experience: Psychological orphans with a basic income. "Psychological orphans" i.e. kids who had shitty parents and learned to adapt to survive. Then this behavior became a habi…

Heroku is down as well.

It's a required condition for me. She knows and has known for a long time.

Hope so! My fiancee is definitely super mature, only 24 years old but had to support her family (while studying) after her father died at 17 years old. She's completely onboard wit…

Timely post as just today I got engaged to my girlfriend. We will definitely go for a prenup, I want to avoid a 15 year long divorce battle like my parents had at all possible cost…

Having mass market B2C customers do this is a customer support nightmare.

Amazing service. Hope to see Atlas expand to Nevada LLCs or (one can dream) Hong Kong Ltd's soon.

An investor buying $200K preferred equity at 5 million pre is not implying that investor would buy the entire company for 5 million cash. The preferred equity makes high valuations…

Stripe has public emails internally. I like the philosophy, but would prefer a prebuilt solution if there is one available?

Ha I was thinking of your app when I read this.

I like the categorization but I think the more common names for those classes are self-employed, employee and business owner.

Do your own thing on the side. Much better than a few stock options. But make sure to have your project excluded in your IP and non-compete contracts with your employer.

The value proposition is that girls can show off a new dress for each (facebook picture of) event they attend. So they're not renting dresses, they're renting the dream/perception …

We all have to breath way more than we need TV, yet oxygen isn't a 60 billion market. It's just a nonsensical statement.

As a former business student, I don't remember us having standards.

I also hate the overuse of the word 'like' but didn't notice it here until you mentioned it. It was fine.

I love how everybody in Silicon Valley claims ideas don't matter, only execution does, then hate on the company that is taking that maxim to its ultimate conclusion.

DataCamp also did TechStars NYC. There are also successful companies that were bootstrapped, e.g. TheInternGroup.