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The founders likely took some money off the table in those huge rounds. They didn't end up with "nothing".

We do a book exchange. We tell all would be givers that we will not accept gifts but only used/new books. You come to our house and give one of your books to our child and we will …

These are likely seasonal job losses like retail or related. You have to do Year over Year comparisons for jobs. Month over month comparisons are misleading because of seasonality

I run a cash flow startup. We're profitable and I'm building a cash reserve. Yesterday I read that TINT [1] uses a "health ratio" of cash/monthly burn and theirs is like 1.6, meani…

@garrytan said it as well in 2012: Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea http://blog.garrytan.com/travel-planning-software-the-most-c...

Indexing != SEO A better test is to insert mentions to another site for relevant keywords. Then measure impact on ranking for the other site. My guess is likely zero to negative im…

Same experience here. A few of my developers migrated our servers to DO 2 years ago to "save" a few hundred dollars. Turns out DO has planned downtime every other month and its cos…

This assumes everyone is motivated, wants to improve their lives and do well in their jobs or in society.

If you listen to everyone here, they'll ask you to finish school. That is the safe bet and "prudent" choice. If you want to be a founder, you'll never be comfortable taking the "sa…

Is software free trial similar to this? Don't we, as developers, give our software for free in either a freemium or free trial business models? One freemium tool I'm involved in on…

Do you know if these kinds of interactive content perform better (ie clicks/shares/views) vs other forms, ie longform or just plain data visualization pieces? I personally enjoyed …

Singapore had some success in the consumer electronics field with Creative (remember the Sound Blaster?). There is Razor, whose CEO is Singaporean, but the company isn't based ther…

Wouldn't touch this with a 10ft pole.

Most of the comments here are focusing on the OS. It's not about the OS. It's about the ecosystem - the apps marketplace. They can come up with a great OS, like Windows did, but wi…

+1 on the Canada hack. Canada now has an "Express Entry" process for skilled workers that grants permanent residence in months 6 months or less. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigr…

There are many education pathways to a good career. The traditional 4 year college after high school is only one of them. It's great to see real examples of these different pathway…

Yes. And for me, to be successful is to be happy with what I do for a living, and to have the freedom to pursue my dreams. Selfishly, I rather be a mediocre father and successful/h…

If anything, I felt more pressure after kids to be successful. I had to prove to them that their father was not a mediocre person. I also need to show by example - that I did not w…

I quit my job and travelled for almost year in South America. I later spent 2 years in grad school (studying social science) as part of an extended "break" to figure out what I wan…

I've been involved in a micro acquisition. From my experience, this is not true. Both the timeline, cost and effort from term sheet to closing was small (in comparison to larger ac…

It's great to see individuals/institutions being innovative on this front. I applaud Brad, his wife and CU for this. For Americans afraid of immigrants (H1B or other types) stealin…

It isn't a zero sum game. The top 20% doesn't take away 84% of the wealth pie and leave the rest to us. They also create a lot of it. If fact, if the top 20% can create enough weal…

I would recommend a book on selling and marketing. Influence the pyschology of persuasion, for example. And as practice, take a job as a door to door sales person. Build up resista…

v. late reply. Was busy working:-) There is a lot of empirical research that attribute grit, perseverance, practice to success. The best and most "successful" creatives, are also t…