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Nik - good stuff. Was there ever a monetization plan when you were building it or was it always just always viewed as a complementary asset to TC as you highlight above? Comment fr…

This article is well-written and The Verge's production quality is tremendous. Can we get more like this? On Everpix - pretty shocked at the candor/level of disclosure in this arti…

I think the comments by Matt Kaufman (president of Crunchbase) about the damage that can be caused by "Crunchbase replicas" reflect the knowledge on AOL's part that Crunchbase is a…

I wonder what this means for startups building their product on Crunchbase like Datafox.co, Mattermark and Inkwire.io? Seems analogous in some ways to what Twitter did with its API…

This is going to increasingly become common esp as governments try to cover budget gaps. We just went through a sales tax audit for our SaaS company and so are expecting a good siz…

No. According to Glassdoor, it says 16-50 employees - http://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-PrivCo-EI_IE659... LinkedIn has them at 50 employees. Safe to say it's definitely…

Inspired by this thread where Fred Wilson called Privco's data garbage, their response was a bit of a case study in how not to respond to criticism. https://news.ycombinator.com/it…

SiliconValleyVC - this account has to be the worst attempt at astro-turfing I've seen in a while from a company employee or founder. Does anyone talk like this about a vendor (much…

Whoa - this is so spot on. We get lots of I'd be willing to pay X and we always send them a link for exactly that amount. And they never pay. We even follow-up just to give them th…

Writers/editors from major techh publications don't seem to trust Privco's data or practices either it seems - https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/336949975634296833

Worth noting that "A spokeswoman for Spark Capital disputed the accuracy of the report" Privco were the same guys who did the LivingSocial hatchet job a while ago which was proven …

The point about vesting is one I hadn't considered. Thanks. Re: the burger analogy, that also makes sense in the context of there being competition for this deal. But aside from a …

Saw this one earlier by Fogcreek guy - TOMA where his phrase was that they'd use their blogging to "achieve TOMA" -- still have no idea what it is https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

Can someone explain to me why you spend $1.1B on this if the company was running out of cash, had investors skittish about funding a new round and there were no competing bids. Why…

Great points. Perhaps a dumb question but what is TOMA? I google'd and Urban Dictionary'd and I came up with the "Tennessee Osteopathic Medical Association" which my gut tells me i…

You could goto Bloomberg.com or Yahoo Finance and get real P/S ratios but you used the uncontested paragon of financial data - HuffPo. And you said it's high but still used it in y…

Exactly. What makes it worse is that Tumblr has lots of soft core porn and other unsavory content which brand advertisers don't want to touch with a 10 foot pole. Plus, the P/S of …

Sorry - sarcasm never translates well in writing. I totally agree with your point. Apologies for confusion.

Your conflating two unrelated things here - being objective (or real) and being dismissive.

Have you earned the right to have this much attitude? Strikes me as odd that as someone building a startup about startups that you'd be so dismissive of others on HN - a startup he…