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I'm curious whether the issue is that there isn't an appetite among LPs for lower-risk, lower-yield investment, or that the indie.vc terms didn't enable enough upside or liquidity?

If it's not VC and it's not loans, what is the answer for funding growth at post-revenue companies that don't fit the hyperscaling model?

The court case has not concluded.

A gay, foreign media magnate known for publishing lurid expose (in addition to a lot of excellent and funny reporting [1]) was never likely to receive sympathetic treatment from a jury of people from Hulk Hogan's hometown.

Let's see how things go on appeal.

[1] http://gawker.com/heres-what-gawker-media-does-1779858799

I think the poster was referring to the Greek economy's need for bailout/recapitalization from the EU, not provision of aid to their citizens.

While the US is in fact known as the manufacturers of several delicious varieties of cookie, you might be surprised to learn that consumer packaged goods as a whole are not among the top 10 categories of goods exported from the US to the UK. So I'm not sure supermarket shelves are a great data point.

(Total US->UK ~$55bn, about 4% of total US exports, top categories: aircraft, oil, cars, machinery, electronics.)

Your question is probably rhetorical, but it happened because the Republican party decided they needed to bring social conservatives (especially Southern whites disaffected by the Civil Rights Act) into their coalition. See "Southern strategy" [1].

I believe anti-choice specifically was brought into the party platform during the Ford years. Outright homophobia was pretty mainstream until well into the 90s, and wasn't much of a differentiator between the parties. Democrats just soft-pedaled their position while the Republicans, specifically the fundamentalists who had grown in power since the 80s, made AIDS and gay marriage boogeyman issues in the "culture wars" [2].

For the record, both parties are coalitions and involve this kind of compromise between different constituencies (see Dems and organized labor, et al.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_war#1990s

Dodgeball, the predecessor of Foursquare, predated Loopt in the mobile social space by at least three years. There were likely others.

Loopt received the at that time unheard of privilege of running an always-on location service on some phones, and failed as a business.

Separately, being inclined to believe someone in a matter of fact/law based on their track record in another realm is an example of the appeal to authority fallacy. The subject also has personal and institutional conflicts of interest in this instance.

Now if we're talking polo shirt styling...

In that it requires address validation. So "private" per se is wrong, sorry, but nothing within a community is intended to travel. Placewire is happily promiscuous. Thanks for the question.

Litany of failed ventures: http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/6-hyperlocal-failures-...

Litany of crippling systemic factors: http://streetfightmag.com/2013/08/23/why-your-hyperlocal-con...

Please see my reply to bobbylox for the operational differentiators I see between Placewire and other hyperlocal models.

I'd argue that despite feeling apathetic about the individuals in your community, one could be motivated use Placewire. Because person-to-person connections/follower counts are not a core part of the product (today), there's a lesser ambient sense of social haves and have nots. I also think an ambivalent person could use Placewire for both practical reasons (I learned that there's a new Cambodian restaurant opening on Smith Street), or because you enjoy being a person who has information. Think about Matt Drudge, a news hound and apparently somewhat of a hermit.

Instagram with a hashtag is fine if you 1. aren't bothered by sending the majority of your followers content that is irrelevant to them, and 2. believe that non-followers will discover your content by surfing your chosen hashtag. Algorithmic feed could change some of this - we'll see!

Nextdoor is a private message board, which is an ideal environment for people who enjoy message boards and the type of conversations they engender, while the unit of content on Placewire is a photo. I believe this enables a different type of conversation and will engage a different set of users.

I think Facebook groups are typically used at micro-local (eg. a city block) scale and it's perfect for sharing information in that context. I'm not sure how that maps to a neighborhood. Do you have any firsthand experience?

I also plan to circulate content in a less geographically siloed way than these quite private platforms.

1) Better unit economics via user-generated content creation. I'm not paying per-market salaries like Patch (though I'm not reaping the benefits of labor of a dedicated professional, either).

2) A native ad product (sponsored photo/link) which local businesses understand, because they're already creating the content for existing social media.

3) A content model based on a form of media which people enjoy both consuming and creating, rather than zoning board recaps and the crime blotter. I'm not denigrating either of those - I enjoy both - but like a lot journalism they are costly to produce relative to their travel.

Now tell us how this would affect your plans for the next round of Co-Prosperity Cloud awardees.

$41? $43? Sky's really the limit here.

"Co-Prosperity Cloud 2: the Trickle-Down"

Definite elements of cultishness. In my experience it's best to remember that employers need people like you more than you need any one of them.

It's not unlikely that they signed a non-disparage, non-disclose in exchange for some/marginal severance.

I made the decision to use Redis/Ohm and Cuba for a personal project several months ago and I've never felt more connected to and in command of what I'm doing. I owe both these gentlemen a debt of gratitude.

I'm missing how your first sentence is connected to your second (are you suggesting a contiguous array of pointers?) but I believe the generalized disadvantage of pointers is poor locality of memory access, cache misses, etc.

Ok, on whose behalf do you suspect this story was planted? Industrial robot manufacturers? One of China's manufacturing rivals? Levis?

I have no inside information; I can't say whether it was or it wasn't. But dropping a link like this and running is tantamount to writing "9/11 was an inside job".

Based on fiduciary responsibility to current Square shareholders, I can't believe he's allowed to do this.

Follow along at home: https://github.com/antirez/redis/commits/geo

The office holder had a long, accomplished career, but the author, bummed that he can't find any up to date books to steal from the office, is calling him out for phoning it in because he accumulated some junk over the years and went through a tough time when he lost a child.

Pardon me if I'm not dying to hear the insights this experience triggered for you.

Some background on their rationale: https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/the-lego-block-exercise-4c7d6...

Based on the "adapt or get out" tone and unironic use of jargon like "Teal Organization", I picture their emergent culture landing somewhere between Lord of the Flies and Scientology.

Basecamp's revenue and efficiency is of course impressive, but I'm not sure a multiple like Atlassian's would apply. Investors could reasonably assume (or know, if they're privy to their plans) that Atlassian is planning to use those 1100 employees to go after a number of markets, whereas Basecamp has shown their preference for focus and managed growth.

"Young"? Really?

Economies of scale in sales, tech and business operations. Knowledge sharing, eg. distribution and audience development techniques. Increased leverage with 3rd party vendors, search and social platforms, etc. Plus the usual benefits of scale (cashflow stability etc.)

I agree that QA and support skills are in demand, geographically portable, and will help develop empathy and understanding for the perspectives of both software engineers and end users.

Good tactical advice here: http://avc.com/2011/04/finding-and-buying-a-domain-name/#com...

TLDR: Lead with a real offer at a price that the owner cannot dismiss out of hand, gently imply that your offer has an expiration date, don't act attached to the name, negotiate from there.

Go is faster than Ruby, but trying to show that with a benchmark that spends most of its time blocking on HTTP responses is kind of daffy.

Tangentially related, but definitely related:

http://rms.sexy

Nicely executed, and very effective.