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Really boggles my mind, but I think it has to do with how the recruiters get rated. I imagine the lower the percentage of successful applicants, the lower their performance.

I worked there a bit over two years.

There is some flexibility, but they are strict. Strict in weird ways. I'm actually a former Googler who can't get back in because my GPA. Go figure! :-/

I often feel that I lack the delusion to build a premier company. I try to build a great product, but I can usually point out to other companies that do an element of what I do better. Perhaps no more SWOT analyses.

Such a weird balance that a startup founder must create.

Big pro for me: "Developing for it is easy and consistent across the devices that it runs on, unlike Android, which requires testing and specialized development for each different handset."

Big negative: .NET

Reminds me of:

"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."

(While usually attributed to Mark Twain, the actual source of these words of wisdom is unknown - there is no evidence that Mark Twain ever said this.) from: http://www.nps.gov/alcatraz/

They even dropped the reduced redundancy storage rate.

I wonder if with reduced redundancy and export to your own hardware (using Amazon's sneakernet) you can mimic the standard durability at a lower cost? Maybe too much work.

Once the year is up, you can still get a good deal on AWS by getting a reserved 10GB micro instance for $10.54 per month. You'll also need to pay for bandwidth ($.15 per GB after your first free 1GB) and I/O ($.1 per million requests).

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/

Wealth is the future value of resource and human labor inputs that you control.

I was wondering the same thing. Posting this to his public blog is an admission of guilt.

Too bad they didn't use EC2 to handle the Renderman Farm. They could have made it a bit easier by using Amazon Web Services own version of a sneakernet, http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/

I made a guess at the url based on how they format their live urls. I guess this could be one negative of having nice urls.

The current signup urls are:

Maximum: https://signup.37signals.com/basecamp/Max/signup/new

Premium: https://signup.37signals.com/basecamp/Premium/signup/new

Plus: https://signup.37signals.com/basecamp/Plus/signup/new

Old Plans:

Basic: https://signup.37signals.com/basecamp/Basic/signup/new

Free: https://signup.37signals.com/basecamp/Free/signup/new

Free plan isn't displayed, but available at https://signup.37signals.com/basecamp/Free/signup/new

Just found that the code says "The existence of a limited liability company begins upon the filing of the articles of organization." Can I read this literally, the corp exists once I mail the docs in?

http://law.justia.com/california/codes/2009/corp/17050-17062...

Mountain View is safe at night. I've walked around after 10 many times without issue.

Transit doesn't have to be too bad. There is a train to Palo Alto and San Francisco and decent bus service. You can also rent a car from Enterprise for about $20 a day if you need to go somewhere away from transit.

http://frutell.com - Daily Deal Aggregator

Who said this thoughtful quote?

I agree that there is too much cheesy positive feedback. If both parties are being honest with themselves and reality, negative feedback should be a driver and something that brings about positive change.

Also, check out http://vimeo.com/10119028 . Jessica, of ycombinator, interviewing the AirBnB founders.

A company must make a good amount of money to do this. There is a overhead in structuring this: lawyers who do international inc., physical presence, banks, etc.

Larger companies will often do this by setting up a corporation in Ireland. They get a favorable tax rate, 12.5%, and a legit and stable place to park their European cash flows.

My resource for looking up tax havens is, http://www.lowtax.net/lowtax/html/jurhom.html

If you can get a signed 60/40 contract with no vesting period, this might be the way to go.

Your co-founder launches it and then you quit with the equity. He can find someone else to carry on the code. If he's successful, then so are you.

Good luck. I've been where you're at. It ain't fun, but life goes on...

hopbuy.com - was for a shopping site.

I, like many others, also use virtualbox for development. So much easier to develop on something close to my production servers, but it uses up too much memory.

I've been looking at some cheap Walmart/Frys PCs to install ubuntu on and develop.

He has been funding the company with his money from Super Soakers, but because of knock-offs is now only able to cover one third of expenses.

Looks like he's trying to give up as little ownership as possible: govt grants, reinvest revenue, slow to get vc funding.

Made me think about how our approach to building animal like AI is premature. Developing plant-like AI seems like a better first step.

About the Speaker: Stefano Mancuso is a founder of the study of plant neurobiology, which explores signaling and communication at all levels of biological organization, from genetics to molecules, cells.

Grellas' Startup Law 101 is a great starting resource for these sorts of questions. The IP article is here:

http://www.grellas.com/faq_business_startup_015a.html

But most recent quarters have been positive with income in the tens of millions. Q2 had a large one time write down from restructuring.

Financially, AOL isn't looking too bad: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:AOL&fstype=ii

They have $4 billion in current assets, so could go all cash on a buyout. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=yhoo

bitbucket (http://bitbucket.org) - mercurial vss, similar to github

I'm curious to know how the technology is used after a patent suit like this. Do companies like Apple usually license the patented technology or do they remove the offending code?

I imagine there could be a lot more money involved if the appeals are shot down.

I hope we don't hear "Gliese 581g" too much. I think a proper name is in order.