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A lot to unpack in your post, but some things worth mentioning: A. Savings rate is everything. How much can you save and get compounding? If you're high earning early in your caree…

There are some funds out there that will help employees exercise their stock options (for a %). 137 Ventures is one of them. Generally, these types of funds will only be interested…

Marco and Jonathan are the real deal as entrepreneurs—they always think for themselves.

Fun dialogue between Pete Wells (former Editor of NY Times Dining) and Helen Rosner (features editor for Eater): https://twitter.com/pete_wells/status/635499327918612481

I think the biggest qualification factor of a cash flow positive business mitigates quite a bit of risk (as long as there's some minimum bar of >= $50k / year). The part that's tou…

I love that this story is trending on Hacker News. The author, Paul Hoffman, is a close friend. It's nice when good work gets rediscovered here.

I've thought about executing something similar with friends. I think there's a market for it—but the question is how big you think it can be? ie: Birch Box works (sort of), because…

Second on: completely arbitrary. If someone shows up in early days before a company has product market fit and is one of the people that truly shapes the business, call them whatev…

It’s hard to encourage and nurture positivity on the web. Tumblr’s done it by not explicitly building comments into the product—so if you’re going to say something critical, it sho…

Two of the best collections of UI / UX patterns I know of: Chris Messina (factoryjoe on Flickr): http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/collections/72157600... Zach Klein on Evern…

strong preference for NYC, but will consider remote for exceptionally strong candidates.

Biggest question: how does Fabrice's analysis play out for someone that isn't extremely wealthy? Yes, if you have $20 M dollars and are talking about simply allocating assets he is…

@joshu Do you have specific selection criteria for non-US businesses? And when you do them is there usually a business model from the get go?

Some notes on Instagram, aspirational self representation, and homogeneity.

I've also been using Greplin for a few days. For someone that uses multiple computers, accounts, etc--it's amazing.

Standard is a 4 year vesting period. So, for example, if a cofounder had 100,000 shares, they would vest 25k shares each year--possibly with a one year cliff. If you've already put…

Don't you think it's something like the following: think of a country's economy as a technology stack. You need to have the base levels of the stack in place before you can make mo…

Certainly not the biggest authority on this but couldn't find much other than AppEngine about 6 months ago. Here's what I did find: Media Temple has Django Grid Containers: http://…

I say this as a former developer who created some of the first video chat rooms ever (CUworld in 2000). Talking to random people online eventually devolves into porn. You can't hel…

For political reasons, it's usually best to pay yourselves the same amount. Reasons for different amounts: children, loans, trust funds, etc. When you're medium successful, that ma…