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Nothing wrong with sacrificing short term profit to meet a longer term objective. So yes, it doesn't hurt. In fact, it quite clearly helps a ton. Does that make them pound for poun…

The 'unrelated' business idea being the result of the inroads made by you being at current company CEO role and having those customer conversations might be a potential fiduciary i…

Yeah except imagine instead when you should be due that commission but then they find a creative way to bake it into a new cushy position that they carve out just for you (with no …

This seems like a smart and natural step for AirBnB. Step 1) enable existing hosts who are great hosts to 'step up' to a prestige status which creates visibility and pushes more ho…

The biggest problem is the centralizing of biometric data. That's not only slower but a treasure trove once it is hacked. An Opt-in as you're suggesting would be a positive move - …

Works just fine at bodegas in New York, often with more than one. Just don't expect them to come over when your colleagues want to see them.

It is clear that user is the biggest risk in all systems, but that doesn't quite take away from the more important addressable question - specifically - is a password-less method b…

On the question of security and privacy - is my face being matched on THEIR cloud? or locally and then a token is matched? Liveness on the whole has its own issues in terms of a sp…

I'm a little bit surprised that the closing remark of his blog post was "even if you remove all the bad causes, the good causes far outweigh the bad and will cause inequality to fu…

When I read the article my first thought was... So go to war. Don't be proud that you bootstrapped and they got funded. Go to war. Go to the VC community and raise a ton. You have …

When will this statement "your customer pays in bitcoin and you will receive dollars in your bank account" become "you the customer pay in bitcoin and you will accept a charge in d…

but in some respects, it's more than a VC funded startup. Not the concept, but the main stakeholder and one of the key providers of the data needed to make it truly competitive... …

Zaarly... Taskrabbit... can anyone get this notion of "bid for the right TO service" done properly? or are we all just reduced to having to FIND our contractor, on our own.....

Great.... Now what? You've advertised the integration of an API on HN. Now what?

negative skew & fat tails vs. fixed income stream.

the question this begs is more like.. what is the category which is not yet claimed in this field. It looks crowded in this frame, and many of these companies are reaching the $10-…

Its possible to be both white and Jewish (in re to your comment on VCs). Persistence is key, and I agree... The stats show a strong foundation and the right family values make a bi…

There's always going to be a battle between VC money/specialists and Much-much-bigger money/generalists (ala hedge funds, asset managers, private arms of big banks or corporations)…