javery

I recently read her auto-biography and it was excellent.

https://www.amazon.com/Let-Go-Extraordinary-Entrepreneur-Phi...

This is what VRM is supposed to be.

https://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/

Nerdploitation

"Our default terms now include a residual “stake” for Earnest after the Return Cap has been fully repaid."

If that's true I take it all back, but the way I read "long-term residual" was that even after you paid it back they still got a piece of the action.

Not necessarily, equity and loans both have conditions around them. Sometimes loans are more punitive than equity. Taking common stock has almost zero downside for instance, it's when you get in to preferred equity and the rights that come along with it that you can get in trouble.

"In most cases, we’ll agree on a long-term residual stake for Earnest if you ever sell the company or raise more financing. We want to be on your team for the long-term, but don’t want to provide any pressure to “exit.”"

This seems to imply that they get a % of an exit or future financing even once the cap has been reached. That is functionally warrants right?

I always feels it's disingenuous to say you don't take equity if you ask for warrants or other % of the upside - it's essentially a proxy for equity. When you factor in a 3-5X cap, PLUS warrants - this doesn't seem like a better deal than something like Lighter Capital which has a smaller cap and zero warrants.

You can do this, just set your phone to Do Not Disturb and then set it to "allow calls from my contacts"

It looks like you will be charged more for on-demand but I don't see a list of the rates yet, anyone find them?

I still have a 3.25 "floppy" with my QFG character on it.

This post has third party JS in it from Google Analytics that looks to be accepting a bunch of fairly unique looking parameters.

We have been using this at Adzerk since an early beta and it's been just what we needed. We used to pay 2% to another cloud pricing company and we were able to cancel that since we started using CloudForecast.io, saving us thousands of dollars a month. If you find yourself not using all the fancy features of the bigger tools, save yourself some money and use this great tool instead.

There is some work going on to remove Javascript, but it is slow going. Most publishers won't trade off revenue for performance and security so there is no incentive for the buyers to change their ways.

This is from 2015.

Over the years we have done a number of things, probably the most impactful was auto-scaling on our core engines. Whenever we scale down it's just like scooping money out.

If they were actually trying I don't think Breitbart would still be on DFP.

The world we are moving to is one where ad exchanges, google, and facebook get to decide what can survive on the web. This doesn't seem like a good thing.

But seriously - statuspage.io is amazing for this and super cheap.

"First Round's Fred Wilson" - how do you get this wrong?

Terrible article and sensational headline - the problem with all the YC guys being asleep right now.

This is why I bet they buy Nintendo at some point.

But it really isn't. It blocks only ads served by Google and only blocks some of them.

Darren has already announced he is leaving. https://twitter.com/dherman76/status/672889449265676288

Yes - it is way better than the previous broker we used. It has automated all of our offers, on-boarding, etc.

When this happened we ditched ADP for ZenPayroll - wasn't that hard. Now ZenPayroll and Zenefits are fighting.

There are many sites who have taken this approach. The Deck is a great example. Also StackOverflow, reddit, etc.

I definitely understand that perspective - and to be clear there are good ad providers out there, we just haven't been winning the war in our own industry.

I don't think a pinky swear would work either, but I think if the browsers can enforce better standards we would be able to move forward. Of course the problem there is that the largest advertising company in the world owns the most popular browser in the world.

An ad blocker that only blocks bad advertising would be a good way to encourage this.

I wish a form of micro-payments or subscription would work, but most publishers have found little luck with this. (look at all the people here who complain about a paywalled link, or find a way around it)

Here are my thoughts from the ad industry side:

http://adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/ad-blocking-will...

I think there is a chance to make it better, ad blocking is not yet maintsteam and I think there is a room for a blockers that will only block "bad" ads.

I wrote this piece so happy to answer any questions - also love to hear any suggestions or thoughts from people running ad block.