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20 or so shops isn't mid-sized, is it? I just moved to Orcas Island in the PNW after living in cities (Seattle, Anchorage) for most of my adult life. I'm near the one town on the i…

news.ycombinator.com said "not found"?! :-) Still, pretty darn cool.

This was (originally) exactly why we created RescueTime (YC08 - and still growing!). We'd sold a tiny/new startup that we'd created IN ALASKA to a large/overfunded startup (150ppl)…

One thing I've said to acquirers in the past is: "You're a big company that can afford to dedicate a person full-time to this deal for months with no impact to your company's focus…

This is a pretty ridiculous series of statements, especially if you count YC as a mid-stage startup when he joined (which it was). If you add up all of the successful YC companies …

I've been in the Seattle startup scene for ~12 years and haven't ever heard him blamed for "promoting and perpetuating a toxic culture within Moz", so "widely blamed" doesn't seem …

It's not a big deal as described in the article. The effort to apply to YC is nominal, not terribly distracting, and probably a good exercise even if you don't get accepted.

In Anchorage, Alaska there is a moose roadkill call list you can get on. The authorities will call you (day or night) when a moose is struck. If you're willing to come out and harv…

The ultracheap way to do this is just have a 2min gameplay video where you describe how a turn works.

I'd go to LinkedIn (or their About page if they are small enough) and just look at the people. The more diversity you see, the more they are walking the walk. You can also look thr…

I'm not remotely an expert, but this data seems way more compelling than anecdotes. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/health/hallucinogenic-mus... https://www.theguardian.com/soci…

(source: I've twice left my own companies- both companies continued to grow and prosper after I left). Personally, I'd suck it up and get the sale done, working hard to make the pr…

Glowforge ( http://www.glowforge.com ) Seattle, WA (onsite) / Full-time / hiring full-stack web software engineers, product managers, program managers, senior electrical engineers,…

Here's the kind of thing it could accomplish: https://www.recode.net/2017/2/2/14490950/travis-kalanick-ube... If tech workers express collective displeasure about a company, it mea…

This isn't true. Google existed and grew (rapidly) for quite a while before they launched Adwords, which they introduced in 2000. Their growth in '99 was pretty meteoric (prompting…

Glowforge ( http://www.glowforge.com ) Seattle, WA (onsite) / Full-time / hiring full-stack web software engineers, senior electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, UI/UX designe…

Seattle, WA (no remote) / Full-time / hiring full-stack web software engineers, senior electrical engineers, UI/UX designers and more... http://www.glowforge.com We're building a l…

I'd guess more .2 - 1.0 after rounds of dilution, but it depends on when he came on board. The $30B valuation is preferred shares, right? If he sold any before liquidity, it'd be c…

"There just doesn't seem to be any practical advantage to using TripleByte over any other recruiter." Except, of course, that the companies who work with TripleByte probably trust …

Seattle, Onsite (re-location assistance offered) | software engineers / firmware engineers / designers / PMs (full time) Late last year, we (www.glowforge.com) finished the biggest…

Seattle, Onsite | software engineers / firmware engineers / designers (full time) A few months ago, we (www.glowforge.com) finished the biggest 30-day crowdfunding campaign in hist…

Seattle, Onsite | software engineers / firmware engineers / designers (full time) A few months ago, we (www.glowforge.com) finished the biggest 30-day crowdfunding campaign in hist…

"The dreams I had even six months ago, feeling ever more impossible." Which dreams? Are the people who have achieved dreams like those that much more capable of you? One of my real…

"Either more money, fewer hours for the same money, or some balance between the two." You're probably right that this probably how most people are motivated. I think the OP is talk…