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I dig the idea of a "layer" that just makes stuff easier to find without having to invest hours of work into a souped up Notion setup or something. Excited to see where this goes.

Thanks for sharing this. I love this quote, but I had not seen/heard it before.

I think about this a lot. The next edition actually addresses exactly this (in draft right now).

As I begin my career as a coach, one woman gave me some great advice: for every hour you read, spend at least an hour coaching. The experience matters—get your nose out of a book.

I struggle with how to balance these!

I did found Holloway, but I left the company a few months ago. I love reading, but no hidden agenda—I promise!

Relevant thread on the homepage right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107823

With most results above the fold being ads these days, this is a pretty tone deaf message to put out there.

Hello! Andy from Holloway here. Super sorry. I swear this isn't malicious, we must be sloppy with our list management. If you email me at andy@holloway.com I'll make sure we get you off the list for good.

You heard it first here: Technical Recruiting and Hiring is coming out November 19th =)

Andy from Holloway here. Our equity comp. guide is 100% free.

We also have a Guide on Raising Venture Capital (340 pages). We made sure to include an entire chapter on "Assessing Whether to Raise," which includes sections on alternatives to VC and how VCs can control your company. If anyone on here wants to buy it, you can get a 25% discount on it using this link: https://www.holloway.com/rvc?vip_code=VIP25

This will include Facebook, right?

What a lovely question. Top of mind for us, too. Our first Guide, on Equity Compensation, is entirely free. Think of it like our public sandbox. For now, we're thinking all future Guides will be available for purchase (one-time payment and you get digital access + updates). The first Guide we'll launch for purchase is The Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital (https://www.holloway.com/g/venture-capital/about), which we're hoping to have out in June. This post is an excerpt from that.

We'll also be posting more on our blog, like this post, to build up awareness of what we're up to. Our policy internally is that if we're going to post content to promote one of our products, though, it needs to be helpful to readers on its own. It can't just be content marketing junk to get you to click.

So, fingers crossed. We're making a bet on people being willing to pay for what we're creating!

Aw thank you! We're glad you found them helpful.

Thanks! Everything we publish at Holloway is built to be improved over time, so let us know if there's anything we missed so we can make this as helpful of a resource as possible!

Hello! Andy Sparks, co-founder of Holloway here. Thank you for the positive words on the organization and menu. I'm trying to get a better idea of the issue you're running into, as it doesn't sound like something we intended to have happen. Would you mind sending me a screenshot or more detail at andy@holloway.com?

Hi there! Andy Sparks here, Co-Founder of Holloway. This must be a bug—sorry you're having troubles. I know it's work for you, but we'd like to get it fixed. Can you email me a screenshot and any other details (andy@holloway.com)?

"in a startup if you can be legally screwed out of your money, you will be."

That is a (dark) awesome quote.

Actually one more as well: http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/numbers-in-action/

I agree founders need to get together to talk about what isn't going well more often. Yishan Wong, CEO of Reddit, came into 500 Startups once and talked about what he called "CEO therapy," where two CEOs get together for lunch or drinks and just talk about what's going wrong. What Wil talks about here, is sort of a founder therapy session, and I think it's a good idea.

I love this for so many reasons.

I see the point of this guideline, but will still argue that Circa provides more value to the readers here since it links out to multiple sources (also linked to SFgate: http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2013/03/04/george-mille...), therefore giving readers a more holistic view of the story.

Not blogspam. Circa is a pretty cool tool that tells a news story by pulling in all the sources talking about it, and then updates the story as new information comes in. Take a look at them; it's really useful.

Except your technology editor. He uses Firefox more than Chrome after you showed him tree style tabs.

Hey Ned - this is Andy Sparks. Yes, the deal was <$100k, but I can say with complete honestly that both sides of the table made out well and are both satisfied. Also, I checked out Tweaky, looks pretty cool.

I like this, but can see some problems with iMessage on multiple devices. Ignoring that, I'd love to get a push notification at ~5% battery asking me if I'd like to put an auto-responder on.

It took me a second to get what this was, but after I logged in with FB I definitely found some pages I needed to unlike. Great idea.

Touché =)

This is another great question. Our team (this is Andy) was very small. My other two co-founders, who I still live with, have decided to move on to other projects. Zach, our CTO, is now working with another company (not public yet), and Carrie, our designer, has booked several months worth of freelance work. The important thing is: everybody is employed and happy.

Great question. Zach, our CTO, has joined another company for (not public yet). Carrie, our designer, is currently freelancing and is booked out for several months.

Thanks! Everybody says this in an acquisition, but I honestly could not be more excited to join the Referly team. One of the biggest reasons why is that my day-to-day will, and already has, changed quite a bit. While we remain devoted to maintaining and improving LaunchGram, I'll be doing a good amount of work on the Referly product as well.

I thought he made a number of good points all tied together around the suggestion that people aren't taking enough time to read on the web.

Angus, have you read Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death?" I have a feeling you would enjoy it, and would love to hear your comments on it. Keep up the good work.

I really wish this post got more attention. Really important stuff.