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"It’s called due diligence." And this is called talking out of one's ass. It's easy to armchair quarterback from a cozy cubicle at Pando HQ. When you run an actual company, especia…

You're welcome. I did a little more digging and wwwDOTpatscowindshieldrepairDOTcom is a mirror site with the same info that's ranking for the same terms, and the backlink profile f…

Here's a search that tripped me up - I'm in Houston, TX. When I searched for 'windshield repair houston', the 1st result - wwwDOThoustonwindshieldrepairDOTnet - looked promising so…

He's not saying Guy is wrong. He's saying you're gonna have to come up with a more cogent argument than "He was right back then, and he's still right today". Basically, the burden …

My only concern is that Stripe will be such a hit that they'll be bought out by someone like Paypal. Which would suck since the point was to move away from Paypal to Stripe.

Actually, the math is not simple. Why are you assuming all 100 employees will donate $10? What if only 5 out of the 100 donate $10? In which case, the company donating $10 for ever…

Sites can definitely be blacklisted (Valleywag, for ex). There's nothing in the HN FAQ about how to go about submitting a site for blacklisting though. For the record, I'm all for …

Ahh I see. Well, either way, best of luck at Twilio for now, and a startup in the future :)

Sorry to hear the news. Also, I had no idea Paul Stamatiou left to join Picplum. How often do YC alums jump from a still running startup to another? Is it common?

Even if you think the author’s work sucks you can’t just dismiss everything that is said. Yes. We can. Some ppl may not like it, but we certainly can.

Never shortchange yourself - ever. Right. Shortchange the company instead. OP, considering your virtually nonexistent professional experience, I'd take the job regardless of the sa…

And RRE is an abbreviation of?

Mr. Moore went to a start-up event to learn about 'quick exits' - valley talk for cashing out of your company while you still can - where executives from large tech companies coach…

The VCs have the well-paid, cushy, powerful and easy jobs and are pretty much guaranteed by their path-of-low-resistance career track to be rich Then why doesn't everyone and their…

Then it's more choices for the customer. Nothing's stopping the original 'innovator' from bring his product to market as well.

How is Google’s argument here different than simply demanding that Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, et al should simply sit back and let Google do whatever it wants with Android, regardle…

Prediction: She will sue Airbnb. And win.