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Ask HN: What can a small business do to grow excess cash?

I'm self-employed with a web development business structured as an S-Corp. I maintain a payroll where I pay myself, and contribute towards a retirement savings account, but my business tends to have excess cash that sits in savings. At this stage, I'm not looking to increase headcount. Is there anything better I could be doing to grow this cash apart from increasing my own payroll and...

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Re:Get Ready To Lose Your Job on Saturday February 16, 2013 @11:12AM (#5231881)
They'll talk to lots of people. It just won't be a salesman. Its more-likely to be existing or previous customers.
Re:Top 250 cracked Gawker passwords on Thursday December 23, 2010 @10:03AM (#2034548)
Is there an easy way for me to decrypt what password Gawker had for me? I was unable to login with my account for over a year, but I'd like to see what password they have on file for me so I know whether I need to change it elsewhere.

I realize asking this also is asking for an instruction manual for malice with whatever is decrypted. I just don't know how to determine how exposed my email address leaves me.

He didn't publish an archive of secret governmental cables.

Ask HN:If you could access every file with a specific keyword, what would it be?

If you could have access to every document (email, word document, government cable, pdf, jpg, txt, etc.) in the world containing a specific keyword, what would that keyword be, and why?<p>I've had this discussion a few times with different circles of friends, and each group has come up with completely different suggestions. The only rule is that the keyword needs to be a reasonable...

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Re:Worst gadget ever? Ars reviews a $99 Android tablet on Monday November 22, 2010 @11:06AM (#1930179)
I played with one last week. It ranks slightly below the CueCat in usefulness.
Re:New browser RockMelt oozes into beta on Sunday November 07, 2010 @05:32PM (#1880550)
I'm sure a lot of people asked the same question when competitors to Netscape hit the scene, and look at how much they've changed in that time.

I've only read a little about RockMelt, but it's not clear to me why they didn't develop this as an extension ... aside from perhaps being able to claim the search revenue.

Re:As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @05:56PM (#1670231)
Part of the reason that Cassandra may be the focus is that Kevin Rose places much of the stability problems on Cassandra's shoulders. Two or three minutes into the most recent diggnation he talks about Cassandra and describes Cassandra as "very beta-stage software" and says how days before the launch at least some of their focus was on fixing "Cassandra problems" rather than issues with Digg v4.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/07/kevin-rose-responds-to-digg...

Re:Jason Calacanis: A message to the Mahalo community on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @01:50PM (#1455594)
Well that's certainly confusing.
FYI: Calacanis sits on the board of Savings.com.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/05/savingscom-makes-coupons-mo...