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Congrats Estimotes! I have their beacons sitting on my desk. I can't speak for the capabilities yet – but the design is gorgeous

I do not think that the comments here are very good advice. I know a very good immigration attorney if you need one. Here are my two cents:

* H1B hit its cap last year, probably hit its cap next year. It's a lottery if you'll get one – I know a lot of people that did not get them – It's also very hard to get a H1B if a) you own majority of the company, or b) if you have raised less than $500k.

* I have never met anyone on the E5 visa. It's supposedly a complete nightmare, and takes forever to process.

* The E-2 visa is good but it requires you investing significant capital – six figures – in your business. If you can do this, get this visa since it is the best one.

* I know people that did not get the H1B and ended up working in USA on a J-1 visa: it's a crappy visa but might work, usually requires you to have more structure in the USA though.

My advice is to get a good lawyer and get an O-1 visa. Everyone balks at this visa but if you match these requirements you are a long way towards it:

* Have press about your startup (techcrunch etc)

* Have been accepted in an accelerator

* Have a degree

* Can get 5 or 10 reference letters from customers / advisors / investors saying how great you are.

One caveat is that again, you need six figures in the bank. Of all the visas though the O-1 is by far the nearest to an Entrepreneurs visa. I know dozens of people with them.

How Not to pitch Anyone.

all the ones you listed are trivial though.

I own a Peel case. It's really great, in fact it's the only case I have ever been satisfied with using.

"prohibitively expensive" ?

Surely if you're a business of any merit – making even $500/month – $300 for a javascript library that'll remove bumps in the checkout process is worth it?

I fail to see why this cannot co-exist alongside the Stripe alternative library. Heck, just taking the stripe library and offering commercial grade support, and charging $300 seems like a pretty good business.

Miami Heat though

I really don't understand how you can connect the dots of LinkedIn's (admittedly crappy) marketing emails and Intro existing. It seems quite simple really:

People loved Rapportive, people wanted Rapportive outside of GMail, Rapportive delivered.

> It's one of the most basic rules of growing a company that pursuing short-term gains (1-2 years) with dodgy maneuvers, directly translate into long-terms losses in the 10-fold numbers of the short term gains. This is not too hard to understand, is the executive team of Linkedin not intelligent enough to get that?

http://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-stock-performance-20...

Amazingly you've managed to crap not only on the Intro team, not only on the Intro team and LinkedIn executives, but every single LinkedIn employee – please tell me more about how to build this great culture you champion.

If a developer redesigns and rewrites an application why are they not entitled to make their users pay for it again? You could just keep using the old version.

I think it's absurd that people complain about iOS apps being "yet another $5" given the amount of time it takes to make a beautiful application.

Given that iOS developers have no ability to offer upgrade discounts, I fully support them charging full price for new versions. They deserve it, especially given the hundreds of dollars people pay for new versions of Office, Creative Suite, etc each year.

how?

Does this integrate with the GitHub editor for jekyll posts? I pushed (with the rakefile) and it doesn't appear to – but I pushed to master not gh-pages.

searched this page looking for a "Chessacademy for Go"

thanks.

No, you should make the gifs so they're short enough steps they just repeat and aren't confusing. Make sense? I'm going to write another post on this in more detail I think.

i meant (but got distracted and subsequently didn't) to write a note on when NOT to use gifs. i don't think they're a killer to screencasts or anything.

I kept dragging the elements into the terminal window thinking that was how I construct it.

almost all game companies are contrary to this

what does "… alien who has only a tangential in human affairs" even mean? he owns a huge commerce company and just bought a newspaper. isn't he trying to launch humans into space? didn't he recover the rockets from one of humanities greatest space exploits? doesn't he have a famous laugh?

tangential but has anyone been to state bird provisions? I keep meaning to go, but don't because of the reservation saga.

I love the design of this, from the animated gif tour, to the .json config

This article is so scant on details. It's very odd that they have not yet found any debris. There is always debris.

socks really don't add that much comfort if you wear nice shoes.

I didn't realise party rounds were formed like this – if anything I thought the opposite, that if you had a lead then they'd help bring on additional valuable investors.

I thought party rounds were just when a company has 4 VCs + 20 angels = $1.5M seed, vs. a company that raises a seed where there is one clear lead.

Battlestar Galactica is incredible.

whats your email? we've built this at userfox and would love to get you involved. we'll do everything for you. i am also interested because i care deeply about backpacks.

i hope one day mixpanel will offer some manner of connector to enable this functionality. we'd love to do this.

My friend once went to a concert where entry cost "5 scratch cards" – there were about 150 people in attendance. I always wondered how the concert organisers did…

It's kind of wild that Google knows that the only American sports team I follow is Miami Heat. First time launch of Google Now for iOS was the weather and their score yesterday. Amazing first user impression.

what can strikingly – or any company that ever – possibly do to mitigate that?

this product has an insanely great user experience. i'm a paying customer.