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please fix article grammar

ebitda is not a poor metric for a stable business like duracell because interest charges (the most suspect component of ebitda) are not going to be wildly outside industry norms. i…

best luck man. keep on building, your work speaks for itself

I didn't get the impression that Miles is naive to these things or that he was soliciting this sort of advice from internet strangers. Far from it in fact. It looks like he knows e…

I opt for the less glamorous title owner/operator

Yes. This. The OP is NOT leading a team of programmers. He is asking HN to lead his team of programmers. "lead" is not a noun. It is a verb!

the best way you can improve the quality of code is to LEAD BY EXAMPLE. you're not alone in that you've been given a leadership position in a circumstance outside your control, and…

How to be a horrible founder: SPAM your users and raid their inboxes.

doesn't provide much insight. it says to build a website and submit your apps to the blogs, which is pretty insulting actually. not surprised coming from dice, the recruiters' den.…

i've probably watched every youtube interview, speech of both of them, and read most of the important articles and books (superinvestors graham doddsville, snowball, shareholders l…

I have it and it's great. At first you think it's just some arrogant old man who is full of himself rambling on, then you realize you're dealing with a genius, and you can't put it…

In an interview today, Ginni Rometty sounded like a TechCrunch Disrupt participant on HBO's Silicon Valley. "We are reorganizing this company around analytics, around cloud, around…

while the idea has merits, i would not trust you with my most sensitive data (especially if it is reversibly encrypted or plaintext), i would feel like i was paying for an added se…

Just got mine! http://i.imgur.com/KcvlmZ3.png

Don't be so condescending.

often times startup ceos are accessible, so you might really dig into a company and its ceo, and write a few well thought out letters to the ones that resonate with you the most. b…

Fair enough - I can appreciate your point of view and logic.

Not at all. You're discounting the fact that $50 is a month's wages to some people in some countries or that a loaf of bread cost a wheelbarrow's full of trillion dollar bills in Z…

Not really. It's all very relative. I don't see what difference it makes if you have 3 billion dollars and spend .09% of your wealth on a watch vs. having a net worth of 10 thousan…

awesomeness

I've often wondered what made Steve Jobs say that "Programming teachers you how to think" and here's what I've come up with. Programmers think in terms of orders of magnitude and h…

Sure thing. It won't be as much of a problem so long as it's an employment agreement. My comments really only apply under a co-founder arrangement.