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What are you doing at work that you don't want people looking over your shoulder? Serious question by the way - it always comes up in work environments that some people are pretty …

For some reason I was reminded of this blog post: http://jsomers.net/blog/it-turns-out

You're right, I'm not arguing very well. And please, I encourage any one not to take what I say very seriously either. If you want to invest, think for yourself, that is what I was…

"The bottom line is this: Amazon trades at more than three times Apple's current valuation, eight times RIM's valuation and just about two and a half times Google's valuation. This…

I'm rooting for all the big technology companies to do really well: Amazon, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Ebay, Apple. Higher market caps means more flexibility in acquisitions, and th…

Of course you are right, but the point remains, it is important to understand the percentage of equity that you own/will own and how that will change with future dilution.

Remember kids, when interviewing at private companies which offer stock rewards, always get firm answers about percentage owned and dilution. Getting 1,000,000 Facebook shares migh…

I've also heard rumors that Gmail and Adsense for Content aren't particularly profitable for Google. Of course I've also heard that the brand equity created with Gmail is very valu…

The flip side of course is that it becomes dangerous if you rely on any of Google's free services. An extreme example, but what happens if GMail isn't profitable enough? Maybe Adse…

"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt Completely agree, the name dropping around here can get tiresome quick. …

Honestly this seems like a cash grab from the federal government more then anything. Knowing friends who worked at these companies, they never felt the anti competitive pressure, a…

Very true - the complexity of the system also comes into the equation when things go wrong and it takes real people to figure out why an outage is happening. Highly complex systems…

A Witty Phrase Proves Nothing - Voltaire The point of the quote (to me at least) was to be taken more to inspire you to rethink perfection then to be taken literally at face value.…

Very good points. Reminds me of this quote: Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery I…

It sounds to me like you are quoting verbatim something Chris Anderson might say. Software companies in the valley have gotten along just fine charging for services and software wi…

I don't like articles like this for one reason and one reason only: it's not empirical. It's a long list of vacuous do this do that statements. What I look for when reading article…

Very interesting essay. Internet addiction is in my opinion spreading like wildfire, spreading well beyond procrastination as Paul Graham said and actually impacting workspace and …

Lots of entrepreneurial navel gazing going on both in the linked site and in these comments. Everybody has their own theory about the reasons x y z why company a b c is successful,…

It's interesting how these guys got so much traction in so little time, even when in private beta: http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?&w=400&h=220&o=f&... ; While the future of flattr …

Ideally you should of had 10 customers lined up before you even started building anything. Draw upon friends and family -- you'll need close relationships with your few first custo…

Setting aside fool.com's slide into arbitrary pop-wall street drivel on the level of Jim Cramer, my main concern about investing in Tesla at this point is the competition. Nissan i…

On the other hand, they already have 400 million users, which is about 20% of the entire internet population in the whole world[1]. Part of me is thinking what exactly are they wai…

I would say no. The strongest analogy between Tesla and a recent IPO I see is Clearwire - similar circumstances, large capital intensive business with some hype behind the technolo…

It's amazing how many of the automated trading programs think exactly the same.

If you ever tried to actually read on an iPad you would understand why. The glossy screen means you can't read in natural light, and the backlit screen causes eye strain. For long …