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Holy Cow this is a very good idea.

"Investors who own SF property?" I would be hard-pressed to name a venture investor that also finds themselves in the real estate business to such an extent that they want their in…

Congrats to Marco and team - they busted their ass in a tough market, stuck with it for years when no one gave a rat's ass about them and are now flying high. Congrats!

Sam Altman is a great writer. He was also Founder/CEO of Loopt. I have to wonder why this post doesn't relate the traits back to his work at Loopt so the lessons learned can be mor…

Founders of early stage startups (as in, not AirBnB or Square or other companies clearly in torrid scaling mode) heading to Vegas frequently on chartered planes? Yeah that doesn't …

Sorry I got the formatting screwed up (if that's indeed what you are referring to). Will try to fix. I wasn't trying to get you to work with me but thanks anyways!

Thank you for the gratuitous profanity :) 1. You're dead wrong if you think employers are always getting more out of the employee. It's a mutually beneficial relationship and a fre…

I was talking about 25 onsite conversations leading to 10 offers and maybe 3-5 acceptances. In order to have 25 onsite conversations companies likely have to talk to 125-150+ total…

Sigh - yet another hiring process complaint post. As an employer hopefully I can shed some light here. a) If you are trying to hire 5 engineers, say, you need to talk to ~25 candid…

yup - until he got to the robot, i thought this was real. sigh.

That's not quite right. It's unclear how much total the VCs put in, at least from the article. But it sounds like they continued to fund the company while the founders' involvement…

For what it's worth - the backlash is still kind of the case in the South (not speaking statistically, just from personal experience). I grew up around Mumbai and traveled to the s…

I grew up in and around Mumbai...the ad is (unsurprisingly) quite disconnected from the facts on the ground but holy cow. Great production values, great storytelling, relevant tie-…

This is a real bummer - our company's first office was right next to Greplin and they were amazingly smart and quite nice. Good luck to the team.

It's interesting to note that across 165 comments, only 2-3 have even touched upon Quality Score let alone attempted to discuss it in detail. Based upon personal experience (worked…

I have yet to see it work successfully in a startup context - I am sure it can be done and there is certainly empirical evidence out there - but I have yet to see it work. The feed…

I did AngelPad with them in Winter 2011 and we worked out of the same office building for a year. Awesome guys, great passion, sharp technologists and all around good people. Could…

I'll disagree with the top commenter - I enjoyed the four hour workweek dig. Regardless, as a fellow founder with a startup of a roughly similar age and an office literally across …

Um. No. That works for GitHub, Facebook and Pinterest (and God knows I'd kill to be in their shoes) but for the rest of us this advice doesn't quite work out. Any investor will als…

So, so so damn good.

Hey Emmanuel - Saumil Mehta here from LocBox, we spoke a few months ago on the phone. I would urge you to simply hire an excellent immigration lawyer to figure out your options w.r…

They're not desperate. They're hustlers. And probably smart enough to hire a great Django hacker with zero Rails experience.

I'm jaded with almost everything - and I still respect the hell out of MailChimp every time I see something new from them. Great company.

Great title, terrible post. What a giant muddle of critiquing everything from one company to a whole industry to a variety of tangential companies in the space...without data. No o…