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by accountoftheday 13y ago
The article does not support this claim. My reading is that GOOG's HR department kept/keeps the salary curve artificially flat (over-rewarding low performers) to manage pay within a narrow band and thereby prevent having to negoti
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by accountoftheday 13y ago
Buried beneath a stack of preferences it makes little sense for founders to make any sacrifices to save the company (i.e. not take a salary for a while) since all money will go to investors first.
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by accountoftheday 13y ago
>$25/hour flat rate? Why? That's not even half the market rate for an average developer. If over half the developers are worthless and you are buying an unknown quantity this seems equitable.
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by accountoftheday 13y ago
Ex post facto, such as the retroactive changes in CA tax law?
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by accountoftheday 13y ago
One perspective is that a friend got screwed out of shares. Another view is the real drivers behind the company were smart to not give a dispensable person a third of the company, and are seeking a discount on mistakenly made legal commitme
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by accountoftheday 13y ago
Receiver pays in the US.
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by accountoftheday 13y ago
The simple answer is that this perceived benevolence is forced upon Facebook anyhow, having a substantial presence in the EU and being subject to data privacy laws there. On the pg side of things I can only assume the chilling effect on con
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by accountoftheday 13y ago
uninformed prediction: "pg called us to correct their mistake, we got an interview and we're in" by the end of next week, though you might be asked not to talk about it in public. meanwhile, nothing will come of the "acq
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by accountoftheday 13y ago
No claim is made under the DMCA, it is merely made to look similarly scary.
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by accountoftheday 13y ago
"pivot" as commonly used now is code for "we did not pull an @ev (i.e. undo existing investment on change of direction such as odeo->twitter) and chose to continue using the $incubator brand licensing arrangement"
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by accountoftheday 13y ago
That, or we buy a car to commute.
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by accountoftheday 13y ago
What I dislike about Euro VC is not so much this focus, it is their insistence on risk reduction in the above way coupled with low valuations not properly accounting for said derisking.
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by accountoftheday 13y ago
This is a javascript based demo which teaches you something. Think about it.
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by accountoftheday 13y ago
Some of the attackers previously lived as engineering students in Germany.
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by accountoftheday 13y ago
A key difference: the problems at LHR with the UK Border Agency stem from public employees effectively holding travelers hostage to extort higher pay whereas the the terrible way DHS treats foreigners is so by design.
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by accountoftheday 13y ago
peers may offer to process bitcoin transactions for free, and the original paper posits there are always going to be participants who will.
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by accountoftheday 13y ago
google the symbol names and you will see the javascript is copypasta.
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by accountoftheday 13y ago
The fake achievement racket is reason enough for my future children to grow up in Europe.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
How do other founders deal with non-committal VC nonsense? I feel like only taking targeted meetings where social capital gets spent on introductions to avoid this takes too much serendipity out of the equation.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
I am only speculating here but the server may be verifying a client's simulation to prevent IAP/multiplayer cheating. (Who hasn't played the old SimCity games with infinite cash?)
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
10% may seem fair when the company is small but it will cause trouble later. What if the company becomes Facebook? Will future hires be angry that a short-time contributor gets 50x their equity upside? Will investors not balk at paying $5
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
With regards to founder vesting, it is worth pointing out that if the fallout happens before the one-year cliff he gets nothing (if the usual terms apply).
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
If you are charming like me you can get a SIM card at a T-Mobile store for free (did so last week in SF). Everything is negotiable.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
It is quite possible that Apple is, technically, breaking EU law but the Commission are letting them get away with it because they have more important things to deal with. With no consumer outrage and no real local competitor to protect fro
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
UK taxes are low but that is because public infrastructure and healthcare there are comparatively cheap and shoddy. It is not really a European country in that sense.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
So what if it does?
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
My guess: when zero board seats go to investors. Please correct me if I am wrong.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
In that sense VAT is also a voluntary charge. You can avoid it by eating nothing.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
Watching any live TV in the UK, even when avoiding all BBC channels, is subject to this mandatory payment. Hence it is, by any reasonable definition, a tax.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
The emotional drain came as a bit of a surprise to me, and I am not even invested much in this forum or the idea of making a career via YC. I too have built and exited startups previously (without the warm embrace of an incubator) and some

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