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They will probably ask you to actually code something. I don't know these guys... but they might ask you some silly ass trick question..

http://www.programcreek.com/2012/11/top-10-algorithms-for-co...

Check that out.

that's how you get a job..

Soooo with a $1M they are going pave a driveway? a 1/2 mile stretch of Arizona desert?

do you have a patent?

yea... whatever... I'm thinking you might get a discount if go with your agent.

Wow... I can't imagine a stupider way to hire someone... what does social networking mastery have to do with driving a forklift?

Well... most large ins cos have these lines. Allstate, Farmers, State Farm. If you have a house, call your agent they will get you a deal that's a small business rider on your homeowners ins. If you don't have a house... call the agent you got your car insurance from.

Or google "Small business general liability insurance <your city>" There are probably a boatload of brokers.

If you're in SoCal or PHX... I'll give you a couple of names of good biz brokers

if you are employees of your own company and you pay yourself a paycheck (not a shareholder distribution)... you may want to consider a PEO so you don't have to get Worker's comp... that can be a pain in the ass...

1. The GL is a little high... If you're a sole proprietor and you own a home you can get the GL rider for like $200-300 a year.

2. PL isn't expensive typically they rate it by your last 12 months of revenue. We do $10M+ last year and our PL premium is $1900 a year.

3. Never heard of this... Call you're ins company.

4. They might be able to waive the WC if you are both owners of the company and you don't have any employees.

so many ideas... so little time... lack of ideas comes from exposure to problems. For that you need to have a job... that's why most of the good ideas come from experience...

Homelessness has less to do with inability to find work than mental illness. Most long term homeless have problems that work or education won't help.

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Jasmine Lynn Schurr...

The devil you know vs. the devil you don't... You really think these accounting products are that different?

^this

Lame article. Most if these issues that arose could have been handled easily by a first year MBA.

1. There are so many ways to get rid of this guy I can't mention them all. However, vesting is a good idea. 2. The incorporation, create a DE entity and sell the IP to it. 3. Most likely a broker/dealer statute that the lawyer was grappling with. If a two week delay in funding is a problem. Then they have bigger problems.

The form of incorporation is more important than the state. Delaware is NOT necessary unless your exit is IPO, or when you have a large or diverse shareholder base. YC mostly funds and promotes "BIG" ideas which get MILLIONS of $$ and if your idea is good and will attract AirBNB type money... yes Delaware is a good choice. For average startup it's a waste of money and liability.

I doubt it was a "blue sky" issue. Since it seems like it was an "Accredited Investor" and they would have signed an waiver to that effect.

Probably had more to do with the firm acting as a broker in the deal, and violating some state statute on unlicensed brokers/dealers. They deposited the funds, so they would be acting as an intermediary. If unlicensed could face serious fines.

That's a good question... but where are all the 50-60 year old firemen? Electrical engineering paid pretty good back in the day... so I can assume that if they managed their money wisely, they are sitting on a boat on some lake in Wisconsin.

I'm working on a hardware project right now and the guy that's doing the board design is 57 and retired. I can only call him between tuesday and thursday and he has an aol.com email address, but he knows what he's doing... so who knows...

Well considering that the PC was available until the 80's, you'll find few guys in their 50-60's writing code in Ruby or PHP... most of those guys are Fortran an Assembler cats. There are plenty of jobs still available working in host controllers and hardware systems. Being a "Programmer/Developer" as a career wasn't really available until the early 90's. I wrote in about 5 different languages back then, including Dataflex... hahaha

Where do you think they go? Do you really think that a 20 something with no experience programming is more valuable than a 43 year old with 20 years of experience? Maybe in some SF based start-up where culture is more important that productivity... but in the real world people hire guys that can do the job. Most real tech is done by guys over 30.

I've seen that more from guys that "start from scratch" than guys who cut and paste... most guys who cut and paste also annotate and comment... most geniuses can't be bothered to both code and comment...

Being a "Programming Master" has so little to do with coding, but the ability to analyze and automate real world processes and make them interact intelligently for the benefit of the user. Solving puzzles and memorizing algorithms it's taking someones project and giving it life.

wow... You must be from the school of re-inventing the wheel... most things that need to be coded have been done before by someone else and quite well... No one chops down their own tress when they want to build a deck. They take lumber that someone else preformed and make it fit their project. If you are writing all your own code every time on every project... You must get nothing done...

yumm... now tell MS to fix their rfcomm...

I don't like ice cream that much... but taco trucks that deliver tacos that taste good.. ok

so is everyone else... really are there NO new ideas?

I'd hire ted

Its like ratatouille... Everyone can cook!!

Yes... Anything of value considered currency

Why?