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Shows incorrect time for Chile. DST isn't until April 28th. http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/chile-longer-dst-2012.h...

Have you seen http://www.kayak.com/explore/ ?

OctaneNation, a Start-Up Chile graduate, is looking to change they way automotive enthusiasts interact. Positions are available for passionate enthusiasts who also think that forums are broken. The market of parts to customize cars is $30B in the US alone...

Send an email with your background and interests and we can discuss in more details how you can fit in. Opportunities exist for biz dev, design, and development.

On a related note does anyone know of any Python/Django crash courses?

After Thinking about it some more I realized VC's usually don't think this way but angels could.

On a related note, if she's declared very publicly that selling this venture would be a failure, what's the exit strategy for her investors? Or (conspiracy alert) they're hoping that her coverage will help the exit strategies of their investments...?

Is he paying Frou Frou royalties for streaming their song on his professional [1] for-profit website?

[1] http://www.johnbmueller.com/index2.php?v=v1

I too had issues with reimbursements but while there are certainly issues that can be improved I don't think there's a better deal in the world available for entrepreneurs.

My stance is best summed up in this photo from earlier in the month: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=280134802038762&s...

Actually I didn't find the infographic that easy to understand. Here's a version I made that shows a large amount of money going into the business but the founder value increasing at a slower rate due to dilution: http://bit.ly/qO90k5

Same thing happens to me. I have RSS feeds of their sites and after clicking on the article it would try some redirect attempt for Spain and come up short. Seems to be better now though.

For non-US citizens/residents who are building startups focused on the US market, do you have any suggestions on where to incorporate (e.g. in the US, offshore, "home" country etc)? How much of the decision should be based on potential legal issues and how much on tax?

1. It makes more sense to value your company on the profit as opposed to revenue, and throw in some expected growth for good measure. For example, would you rather buy Ford with $132B in revenue, or the Google with $28B in revenue? The market cap of Google is 3 times that of Ford $197B vs $65B. Or Yahoo (revenue $6.5B, market cap $20B) vs Google ($28B, $197B). Google's revenue is <5 times that of Yahoo, but it's market cap is 10x. 2. Why do you judge the offer to be low by 20%. Is it 20% lower than what someone else would likely pay, 20% too low based on your expectations. If you can get a better deal somewhere else, why would you accept this one? 3. They know you are young and are likely leveraging this to their benefit. 4. IANAL show maybe you should choose to disregard all of the above and find one to help you.

In addition the data isn't normalized. The rate of something could be decreasing year-over-year but due to population increase the quantity continues to increase. Ignoring the normalized data helps journalists create sensationalistic headlines.

I've had three (all spontaneous). The first one was pretty serious and they had to put in a chest tube in a bit of a hurry, so nothing aside from a small amount of topical anesthetic. Seeing them stuff several inches of a metal tube directly into your chest is like being shot in slow motion.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this but the "x" isn't very confidence inspiring, especially next to financial fields. Patio11 once told a tale [1] of an Indian designer who created a "continue" graphic that was red with a yellow halt-don't-continue-past-here hand. I would not be surprised if a green checkmark instead of a black "x" would have helped conversions, but this is coming from someone who has not done any A-B tests...

[1] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2008/03/02/my-experience-with-outso...

I just tried it an it worked fine for me in Chrome (OS X). I had changed my Yahoo settings to Yahoo Asia a while back so I could enable POP, and when I created the new email address it defaulted to Yahoo Asia.

Not sure if this played a part but I now have all my friend's email addresses in a CSV file on my local HD...

All the people I know who work in M&A say that 90-hour work weeks are common.

I have a feeling that Xmarks is getting more press by saying that they will shut things down in 3 months versus them making an annoucement that they're shifting to a fremium model.

While it could backfire, the additional press coverage could be leveraged to a freemium model if they do it before everyone abandons ship.

So assuming that these customers didn't buy anything over $13, her COGS should have been $13 * 0.3 = $3.90. This also ignores the fact that there are people who paid $6 for the coupon and never redeemed it.

Now lets assume that some people didn't redeem the coupon and that her COGS is a bit lower, so COGS = revenue. As labor and overhead are 'fixed', she shouldn't have lost any money as long as these weren't existing customers who decided to use the coupon.

If 100% of her existing customers used the coupon she certainly would have seen her profits hurt. If 100% of these people were new to the business, she wouldn't have made/lost any money on each transaction, but she would have obtained a lot more exposure.

So before deciding to do one of these deals a business owner needs to have a clear handle on their costs, the expected mix of new/existing customers, and the expected revenue from the new customers over some reasonable length of time.

For me it's more an example of poor management from the fact that he allowed development to become so fragmented that the end result was a convoluted mess.

I know if the the richest man in the world said he was disappointed with something I had, the implications of not fixing the problem would be very clear. :)

I would tend to agree but I have no idea what it may be. My system has been super stable since I got it 18 months ago. When I started having the problem I did a clean install of SL and as soon as I reinstalled Google Voice and navigated to Gmail, kernel panic. I swapped back the original HD and memory sticks and same problem.

What else could it be??

Installing the Google Voice extension caused kernel panics on my machine every time I loaded Gmail. What a pain as it took several hours to figure out the root cause.

My site is going to have specific tags, somewhat like Stack Overflow. I see Trafficspaces has the ability to support contextual ads but there's not a lot of info. Ideally I'd like advertisers to be able to bid on a set of tags--is this possible?

I've been looking for something similar but for non SaaS websites. My site will rely on targeted advertising and the sale of classified ads. Is there something similar that suits my use, taking into account viral coefficients etc.

And along the same lines, is it more reasonable to make estimates on page views or uniques per month??

Buying isn't always better than renting especially when you take into account interest payments, maintenance, closing and selling costs, taxes etc. So basically if the house doesn't increase in value enough to cover these costs than you are better off renting.

Check out this cool calculator for some more details: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...

And I find all of the copper-coloured coins (1, 2, 5) a hassle.

Switzerland seems to have this figured out as the smallest coin is 5 centimes. To the average American who doesn't like dollar coins, imagine their reaction when they find out that Switzerland has a 5 CHF coin. Their smallest bill is 10 CHF.

I apologize in advance for another short comment, but your reply leads to another interesting point: should entities (individual, companies) be using payback period as a criteria for investments? Everything I learned in b-school pointed us towards using NPV as the best metric, but many entities still use IRR or payback period. I'll try to follow-up tomorrow with some numeric examples so you and everyone else can see the implications of various methods. But the stuff I saw from calculations in France (the most generous market for building-integrated photovoltaic installations) was on the order of 10 years.

Your 6-year payback seems a bit optimistic but I last looked into this stuff 8 months ago and things may have changed.

I've done some consulting in the area but don't have any hard numbers at hand right now. But basically, it's lots of money. If the subsidies are taken away then the market collapses. Germany isn't the sunniest country in the world yet was (is?) the largest market. Spain had a recent boom, which was followed by a bust when the subsidies were removed.

France has been playing catchup in this area and they were proposing subsidies that would reduce each year to better match reductions the cost basis of PV. They were predicting ~20 years for solar to reach grid parity.

A more interesting debate is whether governments should be interfering in free market forces to push some technologies over others.

From an SEO perspective, doing a "site:leaf.ly marijuana" search in Google resulted in only 6 results. "Cannibis" only shows 7. Adding more of these references and/or putting them in the URL may help.

Try watching familiar movies that are dubbed into French _and_ have French subtitles. "Children's" movies may be best for this. One caveat is often the audio and subtitles will vary (e.g. tu vs vous); I'm not sure why they do this.

Anyway, watch the movie, and pause it whenever something comes up that you don't understand. You can also try watching English movies with French subtitles but it doesn't develop your French ear. Also Google Translate is good practice. Write something in one language and translate back and forth--it does a pretty decent job. Writing in French will force you to use the proper grammer and vocabulary to make the translation come out OK.

I've in my mid 30's and have learned French fluently and advanced Spanish in the past 6 years. Aside from being immersed in the language, finding a girlfriend definitely helps... :)

Finally Meetup.com and Couchsurfing.org can be good resources to meet locals (of both sexes...).

Good luck!