Is $37 an ode to 37 signals?
six successful applicants at $37 each = $201
The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
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#132Just a note on word choices... the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" was the name of the colonial empire that Japan built through conquests and occupation starting in 1940. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity... Not sure if this is part of a joke or not, but Japan's history of war-time brutality during World War 2 is pretty extreme.
I'm fairly confident Pinboard won't be raping hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people, engaging in wars of aggression on its neighbors, or conducting worse chemical warfare and other medical experiments than the Nazis. I can see how one might get confused though.
In the same way is still happening in places like Okinawa: http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/okinawa/marine-given-fou... ?
Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
PagerDuty will similarly offer a $37 credit towards an account with us.
5KMVP will offer $37 off the building of your MVP.
The value in accepting $37 from pinboard or a16z is in getting a lot of exposure and not the money.
Are you serious or joking when you made this offer? Either you guys missed the point or you want to put your name on the meme of the day. Can you give me a compelling reason for me to accept the $37 from you?
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm fairly confident Pinboard won't be raping hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people, engaging in wars of aggression on its neighbors, or conducting worse chemical warfare and other medical experiments than the Nazis. I can see how one might get confused though.
In the same way is still happening in places like Okinawa: http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/okinawa/marine-given-fou... ?
Nice troll, but one Marine in a large force committing a horrible crime and then being punished isn't really indicative of a national policy. If it were, the US would also be supporting killing US soldiers on military bases in Texas due to MAJ Hasan's spree shooting a couple years ago.
OTOH, it's crazy that that guy got only 4 years. 10-20 would be more appropriate. Hopefully being convicted under Japanese law doesn't prevent additional action under UCMJ to run consecutively.
Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
#135I would like to take this moment to announce PICPC-VC, which is an automatic follow-on investment, structured as uncapped convertible notes, of $50 available to any founder accepted into the PICPC program.
Andreessen Horowitz will match your $50 with another $50.
I guess people didn't get the joke! Atleast it should have ended here.
Heck, I will wager $37 that submitting your startup idea to HN will get you more exposure than posting on Pinboard's blog.
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#136I would like to take this moment to announce PICPC-VC, which is an automatic follow-on investment, structured as uncapped convertible notes, of $50 available to any founder accepted into the PICPC program.
Andreessen Horowitz will match your $50 with another $50.
I'll match the $50 in development services from AbtainLabs.com as long as Ruby on Rails is used. Small sites could actually host on Heroku for free.
Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
#137Is $37 an ode to 37 signals?
It's an insult linking a respectable firm like 37signals to this drama.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
If our $50 participation hampers your A round, we will bridge you with another $15.
pmarca: I think you're onto something here. A large micro-investment portfolio. Anything in this portfolio is sort of a tip of the hat from a16z, a micro-endorsement that messages: "we've got our eyes on this company."
Due to the reduced size of the round, the announcement can only cite investment from a1z.
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#139I'd like to take this opportunity to offer PICPCReject membership to anyone rejected by the horrible elitists at PICPC.
We don't have any funding yet, so we can't make any specific promises, but I hear the dumpsters behind Denny's have a wide variety of semi-rotten food available for "Tuesday dinners".
Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
#140I'd like to take this opportunity to offer PICPCReject membership to anyone rejected by the horrible elitists at PICPC. We don't have any funding yet, so we can't make any specific promises, but I hear the dumpsters behind Denny's have a wide variety of semi-rotten food available for "Tuesday dinners".
My company will offer $38 to every PICPC reject (1) as a bold signal to the industry to not undervalue the vibrant entrepreneurial spirit our community is made of!
(1) requires additional investment criteria to be fulfilled, left to our descretion