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There's an important thing that is not covered here. Currency fluctuations. Assuming you pay people in their own currency (which is useful to make sure they don't pay unnecessary f…

To work for yourself.

To change peoples lives

To have a better work/life balance

To build software you're proud of

To make a large amount of money (eg. acquisition)

For those that founded a startup, just wondering what you're aiming for. If multiple apply, just choose the one you feel strongest about.

This is great. Well done!

To be successful, you can do nothing poorly. That's the trickiest bit. If you do any of these poorly, you don't have much chance: - Product Usefulness - Usability - Customer Suppor…

If you want to play the VC/Funding game, don't do it from Australia. I'm okay with that. That doesn't mean being a Australian startup sucks, my experience is that it's awesome. I w…

An article on reasons to raise venture capital would be more appropriate. The default should be bootstrapping.

Demo doesn't imply fake features. For me demo would be not my data, perhaps a sample set in there. I'd have no problem if it said "there's a bunch of features not yet implemented, …

Are you sure the value you got from the metrics exceeds the bad will generated by annoying your potential customers? To me it's a lack of respect for your users and their time.

If they are working in your office and they don't have their own laptop, then yes. Otherwise, it's up to you. It's a nice thing to do, but not necessary.

@macournoyer, reading the comments here, it sounds like your value proposition isn't articulated clearly enough. There's a bunch of mentions of the price and not knowing what they …

I wonder how much that is just http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring . If it was set at $20... would $10/$15 have felt right?

Setting up a pay scheme now to handle thousands of employees would be very premature optimization.

Sadly it's more probable to make smoking harmless than expect governments to prohibit it. I guess your suggestion is more feasible.

I want smoking to be illegal. At a minimum in public places and around children.

Of course it can't be calculated objectively. Only the employee knows the amount that is right for them.

You make an incorrect assumption that causes an incorrect conclusion. Not all employers want to pay as little as the candidate will accept. I can state this as fact as I am an empl…

It's a really complicated thing. I agree the salary should be relative to the amount of value you add. But what a "good salary" is, depends on where you live. If you do an amazing …

I'd be fine with that. It's used as a discussion point to arrive at a salary the person is happy with. If your original salary isn't one you want to base it off, that's ok.