porterhaney

I'll second my name-twin's sentiments and add:

It's fantastic to see a dividend based model being introduced into early round VC fundraising. It's an alternative to liquidity and something that should/can move upstream. Bravo to Buffer for leading the charge.

The large problem, that's becoming larger, is that a good portion of a representative audience no longer has land line phones, and refuses to answer phones in general. This type of polling is becoming less and less valuable over time, and will need to be transitioned to digital polling in the near future.

How do you manage official communications internally? Announcements, HR, etc?

Also know in NWS speak as a thermoshack.

This would be similar to this acquisition IMO: http://www.macworld.com/article/2083997/apple-acquires-snapp...

That is the most offensive representation of poutine I've ever seen.

Adding to Sam's post I'd like to see employees made aware about tools like 83(b) elections to decrease their tax liability.

The loop on the end is for opening beers.

I can see selling replacements.

Like you don't want to see the Red Sox, maybe the yankees pay to replace all things red socks.

Good tidbit in the conclusion: "Hackathons are an amazing resource for kick-starting new ideas and proving out concepts. However, they should never be used to circumvent due diligence on big business decisions."

That's a load off. I thought they were talking about Tumblr.

Here's some good recent data on how many exits and for how much in the past few years: http://tomtunguz.com/the-3-different-strategies-of-venture-f...

Roof top smoking - http://pandodaily.com/2013/08/02/why-slow-and-steady-is-bett...

This acquisition reminds me a lot of Hunch. It's a similar size in terms of team + cost per team member. $2-3M/employee. And, Hunch's core tech seems to have gone into the eBay homepage, which is what Sarah is proposing Yahoo do with Rockmelt.

Meh. I saw a guy break the sound barrier just by falling.

It's interesting to me that Facebook is getting called out on this when Twitter does the exact same thing. I know a few folks with +1M Twitter followers that have stopped using the service because they were upset that Twitter was not delivering their Tweets to every one of their followers.

I'm surprised the redirect loop can even happen. Seems malicious. Another example: http://www.usatoday.com

FYI: Q1 2012 = 14 weeks Q1 2013 = 13 weeks

Q1 2012 profit/week = $0.93B Q1 2013 profit/week = $1.00B

It's funny. Without Twitter and Facebook to distribute Instagram's content they would have never been able to grow to such a size so quickly.

Now that they've reached this large critical mass of users they can afford to go back and pull their content from the networks that made it popular in the first place.

This is a great write-up.

I love seeing your thought process on how you tackled the project. The bonus playback of realtime results and the not preloading county data are two very good examples of problems that need solving when you take on a project like this. Super write up.

Will you be bringing poutine?

I think it's particularly interesting to watch some internet event go "mainstream" and watch even large services like reddit strain under the load. Put some perspective around how many people true mainstream media services reach.

I really liked the via tag for one purpose.

Buffer.

I liked to know when folks were live tweeting versus time delayed tweeting as it gave me context. If they were live, I'd respond. If they weren't I'd just consumer the content (if interested) and move on.

Same could be said of this blog:

Asymptomatic There must be intelligent life down here

Doesn't tell me very much about who the author is, what he typically writes about.

Their only chance is to hope they bought a single word domain in 1995 and hope they can sell it off to pay for their ankle bracelet.

I mean, this could be a sitting desk if you mounted it a touch lower.

I was one of the first college kids outside harvard to get my eyes on facebook almost 8 years ago. This reminds me a lot of that.

When FB first came about everyone was chasing girls using AIM. People started posting links to their FB page on their AIM profile and all of the sudden we had a new way to chase girls.

The other college ingredient besides chasing girls, is going to drink.

A tool to sort by price/specials, plus the college level distribution of it, is spot on. I'd keep going with this idea.

Both of you gents are doing some neat things with the weather. We also do some ski centric forecasting @ http://www.famousinternetskiers.com/weather/

This is probably some of the best advertising Venkat can do for himself.

That would mean the likes of pinterest would be next.