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this might be helpful http://venturebeat.com/2007/06/22/sold-to-the-highest-bidder...

I don't understand why publicly lynch some company? why not market let work out its dynamics -- if it is not worthwhile people won't buy it. I am saying this because I have attende…

Also a lot to do with inflow of online ad dollars in finance vertical..look at bankrate.com earnings/stock history.. btw, speaking of minimal functionality required and just doing …

Ideally, the presenters should have ready answers for most of the questions that were posed after the presentations ..wasn't there a selection process per se? it was odd that many …

what's up with the acquisition price ..Intuit's recent acquisitions - paycycle, homestead, and now mint.com all acquired for 170 millions!

Although this message is comforting in my IMO the comparison is not that relevant. There is difference between digital and physical goods when it comes to marginal cost, complexity…

are you selling assets/domain? or folding into another venture?

Here is something for you to feel good -- http://patrick.net/housing/crash.html

I guess that hacker is really mean spirited..knows how to torment not only twitter but also everybody else in tech community by getting the monkey (techcrunch) drunk ..with this mo…

why not have code that gives reward/discount to both referrer and recipient?..the example of late pickup is really bad because fines work very well..so do discounts

why not open source it?

This is what happens with celebrities in general..they are "one of a kind" but they are not tackling any big problem. Arrington does pretty mundane stuff but he is standing on a ta…

I have seen this with Scoble and bunch of these guys who don't count themselves part of a company or its decision making - "after" they stop receiving pay check. Even most successf…

you are right Ajju..this 20,000 exemption number indeed was not enough this year ..I sponsored 2 H1Bs in 2006 and that year it was different..there is just strong appetite for thos…

uh..hard point to understand (or swallow?). I don't believe in this assumption -- "There are certainly some combination of country/startup where the founders would be better off in…

I guess I am already down voted so I don't want to get into debate in here..but to answer your question..what's wrong ..the global and (in turn sustainable US development) will hap…

Another quick clarification - I am not saying the list has "small investors" in the sense they have less personal fortunes or these are small/less influential people..and also they…

shared some thoughts over here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=557552 so my take is not visas for foreign founders but the investors and entrepreneurs here more often crossing …

Is it incidental that except for one or two guys in essay review are all people who are small investors who don't have ability to open investment shop in India/China?.. May be 20 y…