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I don't understand all this angel investment speak but the thing I am curios the most is simple. I apply I make it "big" Does pin board owns any of my company because they invested $37 a month and provided exposure? I really don't understand who doesn't have $37 a month to be self-funded but I'm interested on exposure.
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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?
Although, in the spirit of low friction, I would gladly honor any such requests for a discount.
Great idea :) From Webpop we'll offer a free project and a startup template ( http://app.webpop.com/themes/startup ) for anybody accepted into the program. For some people this might be enough to completely skip the Linode and buy one more beer.
I actually quite like this but what scares me is I see no mention of an export. A startup could never use this if there is no simple way to leave at some point in the future.
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At this point I'm out. This much money, I mean... what would I do with it. I think I can build a sustainable business but I fear at this point that the sums involved are forcing me to give up too much control and to grow faster than will be sustainable. I have legitimate concerns that this will ultimately be bad for the company and that it's helping to fuel a salary bubble.
I wouldn't really be into it for the money, just the mentorship and publicity. $137 worth of mentorship and publicity.
The going colo article a few months back is invaluable on it's own: http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/06/going_colo/
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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.
We all flounder sometimes, but it's good to admit upfront that it's your full time (pre)occupation.
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Considering that > 90% of the people who witnessed said atrocities are no longer with us (and 100% don't read HN), the time for jokes has come at last. Actually there have been numerous humorous takes on WWII for decades now. In "jokes", people often state propositions that seem opposed to what we would hope they believe.
Regarding atrocities, you clearly have no idea how deeply the wartime atrocities impacted many Asian families. Many Korean families I know refuse to buy Japanese cars or products (my mom is Japanese, so I've been told this many many times). My Korean father-in-law was an orphan because of the Japanese occupation. In any case, the above fails the first rule of jokes... they're supposed to be funny. I thought the post…
Repurposing the stilted propaganda of long-ago times, or of clumsy tyrants, for subtly absurdist/ironic humor value, does not in any way lessen the original horrors. It celebrates the distance we've achieved, while also offering a teaching moment by contrast/reference.
See also: "we will bury you", "let a thousand flowers bloom", "we had to destroy the village in order to save it", "i have in my hands a list of hundreds of known Communists", "the war to end all wars", "the mother of all battles", "this blogger has been harmonized", etc.