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I'm much more concerned with a new hire, especially revOps, that shows up and their day 1 recommendation is to change productivity tooling for the whole company. Typically these bi…

You are making a lot of assumptions that I'd encourage you to not. Also, this isn't a big bounty dilemma. There was no program. What are you trying to accomplish? You hacked a site…

Ouch. What a cruel, but not completely unfounded, description of my life's work.

For context, I don't have the time to meet with everyone that reaches out. I was thinking I could hold office hours and people could show up and ask questions.

You and I don't have a meeting of the minds for what a founding engineer is. I understand it to be the first, non-cofounder, salaried engineer. This is the highest-equity receiving…

I'd think about the role as a role. Is there a job description? If so, what are the specific responsibilities. What would you pay for the role - comp it to market and company hirin…

My first thought was snide / next level anti-Semitic trolling. But, then I reminded myself that you shouldn't infer tone to comments online.

The former weapons of mass destruction 404 message comes to mind - https://w3dev.net/stuff/error/404.html

This article understates how big the content discovery problem was on the web, at those times. Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and a million others. Reddit is the Craigslist o…

I think he's talking about Yishan Wong and Ellen Pao. BTW, true or not, that's a hell of a way to refer to them, respectively.

Find an employment lawyer. The United States and Colorado have FMLA / FML laws to protect employees from losing their job. An attorney will be able to advise.

Except their legal fees. Whenever you close a round, make sure you negotiate a cap on the legal fees you are willing to cover. The company pays for VC legal fees - SURPRISE.

It's a faulty premise. Very few people actual want to discover startups, for the sake of discovering startups. The reason no one has heard of your startup is because the people who…

There is a lot of patting themselves on the back and no acknowledgement of wrongdoing. They got caught violating trust for an inconsequential revenue stream, at the expense of thei…

It's a hard reality, but imagine you are the one re-capitalizing this venture. They have a team, no customer, no product, but a new idea they want to pursue. There are a lot of ear…

I do a fair bit of investing and advising (both for startups and venture funds). If you are the founding CEO and you are looking to leave, the most likely outcome for a company tha…

Every few years this story resurfaces and always makes me smile.

Admitting defeat is the wrong way to frame the situation. You have learned a lot and gained a lot of experience. There has never been a better time to market your skills, to compan…

It might be my security hat speaking, but I see it as insecure, regardless of who is man in the middling the connection. I'm not a tinfoil hat, but security can't hang it's hat on …