kljensen

Yes, wonderful news.

They also have to pay their 4 employees and their VCs need a return on investment. If you're 1/2 of their product w/ 1/20th the cost, you have options. Consider ways in which your "low cost/complexity" can be used to your advantage. E.g., drastically undercutting their prices (destroying a large part of their market) and moving on. This might compel them to aquisition.

Fundamentally, you do not need to make as much money as they do because you're a lean team.

Agreed, not useful, but entertaining. (Similarly, how about a webapp for simulation of various founder /funding scenarios?)

Well put. Would be entertaining to see the same basic maths with an adjustment for probability of success. E.g. "if you feel the extra confounder increases your odds of success 40% ..."

Boy, as the Free Software Foundation, I'd be displeased with their GnuBio name.

Very very skeptical it's that easy. $2k/mo in AdSense is a TON of traffic. So, unless these are celebrity diaries, unlikely.

This is HUGE. These data formerly cost about $30k just for the historic patent data. Similar costs on TM side. This is a big win for transparency and innovation.

Right. An intern doing a "sanity/troll" moderating would make it a respectable effort.

Could be. My guess is mix of new examiner incentives plus economic crisis.

In fact, it appears they may be granted at a rate exceeding submissions. (But, there is a publication & grant timelag, so it's not as clear as that.) See also:

* Article: http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/05/patent-grants-2010.h...

* Charts (top left): http://news.priorsmart.com/

Agreed with @nedwin on gut feeling to make him/her nearly equal. Hours definitely not an accurate measure of value add or your progress to date.

Heard this once: 90% of zero is zero. You want a split that incentivizes your partner to make your part worth millions and the best way might be to give them more.

Ha...investors definitely are the first customers for many capital or research intensive start-ups. Well put.

I feel it is overly broad to completely eliminate "grin fucking" from your repertoire of responses. For example, when presented with a bs-er with powerful friends. GF-ing is a great option. Frankness is not always the best.

Not FUD. Verified for multiple cases in which a CNAME points to a linode XXX.members.linode.com address.

I'm guessing the variance is due to different agencies implementing different security stuff. Again, 3x verified & no intent of FUD --- I love linode.

Nothing mentioned about privacy of my email...otherwise ubercool

I stand corrected. Jesus they do in part.

No, they don't use live crowd sourcing. They mean that they learn from the "crowd" of users. What they wrote is misleading.

Video w/ fingers over book is uber-cool. Need to touch up their website & make video more like the original dropbox vid. (I.e. entertaining)

where?

yeah, jeez, i'd sell for 1/2 that!

The patent is hilarious http://priorsmart.com/6049835

"A system for quickly and easily accessing preselected desired addresses or URLs on the Internet is disclosed in which a published list of Internet or World Wide Web sites together with their unique jump codes is utilized in connection with a corresponding specialized Web site which is accessed by a user using either a personal computer or a TV Internet Terminal and remote control, after which access a jump code corresponding to the preselected desired URL is entered by the user and software contained in the specialized Web site immediately and automatically accesses the desired Web site."

Bitly?

Might not be "troll" - here's their "JumpCode" system: http://www.jumpcodesystem.com/

Thanks!

Certainly there are countless examples of faculty serving on SABs of start-ups using technologies coming out of their labs. [I agree faculty rarely leave jobs for this, but then, they're not typical operational people anyway...]

I agree regarding metrics: if it's absolute returns, there's little hope for the univ-associated incubator model. This is at least partly because you might be obligated to spend time with teams on which you would otherwise pass.

But, clearly the university has numerous metrics including faculty/student retention & opportunities, community development, publicity, etc.

May I ask -- is your negative perception rooted in experiences with incubators?

Indeed -- biz plan competitions are both fun and useful exercises. I did the 50k (now 100k) at MIT years back and it really took us from idea to...well...a plan.

[Sorry for not naming the university -- just didn't seem appropriate quite yet as it is still up-in-the-air.]

I've heard GT's incubation system was successful. Is there a secret sauce there?

There was no mentoring? Just physical resources? [If antiquated and cancer-causing...]

Clearly there are many different possible ways to be a successful start-up CEO.

Clojure seems super cool. But, 99% of my tasks - are simple & easily accomplished in Python; and - do not require any concurrency.

It seems like Clojure would be super useful in number crunching like scientific computing, etc.

What? No comments. This is cool -- but why would I do it instead of some kind of VPS?