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I'm curious whether the issue is that there isn't an appetite among LPs for lower-risk, lower-yield investment, or that the indie.vc terms didn't enable enough upside or liquidity?…

The court case has not concluded. A gay, foreign media magnate known for publishing lurid expose (in addition to a lot of excellent and funny reporting [1]) was never likely to rec…

I think the poster was referring to the Greek economy's need for bailout/recapitalization from the EU, not provision of aid to their citizens.

While the US is in fact known as the manufacturers of several delicious varieties of cookie, you might be surprised to learn that consumer packaged goods as a whole are not among t…

Your question is probably rhetorical, but it happened because the Republican party decided they needed to bring social conservatives (especially Southern whites disaffected by the …

Dodgeball, the predecessor of Foursquare, predated Loopt in the mobile social space by at least three years. There were likely others. Loopt received the at that time unheard of pr…

In that it requires address validation. So "private" per se is wrong, sorry, but nothing within a community is intended to travel. Placewire is happily promiscuous. Thanks for the …

In that it requires address validation. So "private" per se is wrong, sorry, but nothing within a community is intended to travel. Placewire is happily promiscuous. Thanks for the …

Litany of failed ventures: http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/6-hyperlocal-failures-... Litany of crippling systemic factors: http://streetfightmag.com/2013/08/23/why-your-hyper…

Please see my reply to bobbylox for the operational differentiators I see between Placewire and other hyperlocal models. I'd argue that despite feeling apathetic about the individu…

Nextdoor is a private message board, which is an ideal environment for people who enjoy message boards and the type of conversations they engender, while the unit of content on Pla…

1) Better unit economics via user-generated content creation. I'm not paying per-market salaries like Patch (though I'm not reaping the benefits of labor of a dedicated professiona…

Placewire (https://placewire.co) is a new platform for sharing interesting neighborhood information and gossip via photo sharing. Everyone likes good dope about their neighborhood,…

Now tell us how this would affect your plans for the next round of Co-Prosperity Cloud awardees. $41? $43? Sky's really the limit here. "Co-Prosperity Cloud 2: the Trickle-Down"

Definite elements of cultishness. In my experience it's best to remember that employers need people like you more than you need any one of them.

It's not unlikely that they signed a non-disparage, non-disclose in exchange for some/marginal severance.

I made the decision to use Redis/Ohm and Cuba for a personal project several months ago and I've never felt more connected to and in command of what I'm doing. I owe both these gen…

I'm missing how your first sentence is connected to your second (are you suggesting a contiguous array of pointers?) but I believe the generalized disadvantage of pointers is poor …

Ok, on whose behalf do you suspect this story was planted? Industrial robot manufacturers? One of China's manufacturing rivals? Levis? I have no inside information; I can't say whe…

Based on fiduciary responsibility to current Square shareholders, I can't believe he's allowed to do this.

Follow along at home: https://github.com/antirez/redis/commits/geo

The office holder had a long, accomplished career, but the author, bummed that he can't find any up to date books to steal from the office, is calling him out for phoning it in bec…