deedorgreed

Mobile app = table stakes these days. I think though that Mercury being a place to park cash for startups and earn interest to off-set SaaS costs could be worth it though. You might want to think about a tier where if startups maintain a minimum balance of $X, certain partner services are included for free as an alternative to earning interest.

If you look at their 5 year, basically has been a tear forever.

the point of notes is to be able to raise without expensive legal fees and be reasonable on valuation (i've done a lot of angel investing and when i invest i want a "starting point" - doesn't have to be crazy low but has to "make sense" - at least to me; 20% discount on next round isn't appealing enough {why would an angel putting money super early with the greatest chance of losing it all only get a relatively small discount})

can't price it without it being a real equity round in which case closing costs are the real issue (the other reason why converts work well at early stages)

brave should do ad replacement implement horizontal ad targeting based on sites you visit and then pay publishers and users. users don't want to pay for content (we're spoiled by free), they don't really care about ads as long as they are relevant (to a point), and publishers are stuck right now implementing "native ads" which is just sneaky clickbait crap. brave is onto something but paying with bitcoin will reduce the value of the potential from an everyone market to a much much much smaller one.

hairbitrage

it's easy to forget that he raised $90mm to begin with. So somebody came away impressed enough to drop the money into the company:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/15/softbank-housing-dot-com-in...

With the money they didn't stand still, they started hustling and built an outstanding buy/rent site that kills the ugly competition (magicbricks, commonfloor, indiaproperty).

Have to admit that the "Look Up" campaign has been nothing short of silly.

Um - I have to "think" about what archaic command I have to use with vim.

we are sorry you found out what we were doing and couldn't do much other than apologize about it.

and yet it's not necessarily around big successes. companies aim to exit modestly all the time (not every company can be a google)

i run a company that employs "remote workers" but all centered around one city so that there is some in-person interaction and 4-6 big meetings across our two offices. i think the compromise between the talent demand "problem" and finding remote workers scattered across the world is to pick a 2nd/3rd tier city that's reasonable and set up shop there. it's worked for us and i don't think we're any company special.

php is fine the way it is. the updates you'd like to make would just turn it into python or ruby as others have alluded to

always enjoyed andrew's blogs in the past and judging from this outline, sure to be dynamite stuff coming out of his smart mind in the near future.