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I don't know if I agree. 10x seems to be the common theme a lot of people quote but I've never personally seen a statement that says this is an established standard (which books are claiming this?). I think there are multiple factors to consider when buying and selling, and claiming 10x annual revenue is standard is fool hardy.

Take my advice with a huge grain of salt. Also, the below advice is base entirely on the assumption you live in the US. I do not know how other countries operate so I can't comment.

1. Take some time away from school after high school. I know people want to rush and get it over with but moving forward when you are in this state some times can create the opposite outcome you want.

2. When you feel better, enroll in a local community college and work your way back towards transferring to a university. Apply for financial aid.

You can always try a site like flippa.com. As for the valuation, it's probably a bit optimistic but I guess it never hurts to see what someone might be willing to pay. But my personal guess is it's going to be a lot less than that

It seems a lot of responses here were they didn't know they could scroll. I'm in the opposite camp. Didn't notice there was a play option and just scrolled :/

Execution is everything. An idea evolved and the seed of the idea may be the same but the end result will almost always be different. The peer is a dick for such a move but it's not something to dwell on. If you are to succeed, it will be because of how you execute or lack thereof, not because someone stole your seed idea, generally speaking

Founders and employees get common stock. Investors will get preferred stock. This is not something you'd get to choose for joining

I wish I could downvote. Instead of linking to source, it is linked to some useless 3rd party site the OP runs that doesn't even go direct to article and on mobile, the link doesn't even work. I had to google it separately on a different browser tab to get to source to read.

Those are not the reasons I use Foursquare, HN, or Reddit (can't speak for others)

CA is an at-will employment state. She can be let go without a reason and it would be insanely difficult to prove discrimination occurred as a result

Your latter argument is incorrect. Let's say there are 200 shares issued. Let's say you are a solo founder and own 100 percent of the company. Investor comes in and wants 20%. You would issue him 50 shares and that would dilute your percentage to 80%. Total shares issued now is 250 shares.

Your shares don't change and you don't just get issued new shares. That's why in startups people reference actual shares of stock rather than percentages. Percentages is just a way for people to communicate. That said, in an actual startup we're talking about tens of thousands to millions of shares initially rather than this dumb down version.

As for why your version isn't always the case, it's obvious that if everyone shares get increase accordingly, and retain their percentage ownership, there'd be no new shares/percentage going to new investors of employees

Thanks so much! Truly appreciate it.

If anyone can spare one, I'd love to have one, thanks.

I can't speak for your situation specifically but it was announced in advance that they would be switching to paid plans only. As a result, I personally did have time to backup my data as I imagined you would have had too.

For whatever reason if you didn't see the email and their mail appears to be hitting your spam box, it isn't for lack of them trying it appears. Perhaps the initial email was lost as well.

At this point, my best recommendation is to reach out to support to see if they'd be willing to work with you to get your data back. The free accounts were limited so the amount of files in there can't be much to extract and they may be open to it. Best of luck.

Currently: Dynadot

Formerly: Godaddy, Namecheap, Gandi, Fabulous, and Google (which does eNom and Godaddy)

Weren't happy with the former so I kept going till I found one I did like.

Considered but failed: Joker, Name

Never Considered but looked at: Badger, Hover, EasyDNS, Dotster

Others considered that were/are still consideration: iwantmyname, dnsimple

It's interesting but it feels like every year for what feels like more than a decade, some student is building either a craigslist for campus, a campus chat board, a campus event system, a note sharing app, or course scheduler, or some student discount system. These ideas constantly crop up over and over again yet I don't remember any persisting or growing to dominate the space.

Are you net negative or net positive when you say "barely cover the costs to host it" or just about break even. What is the stack?

I'm in the same boat here as shellab. If pricing is difficult to find or not available, I generally won't try the service

Yes

Set bookmark on Chrome or Safari browser

Isolated, quiet, spacious, large desk with plenty of surface area, comfortable chair, good size monitor, desk lamp for lighting, and complete silence.

Speak to your children in your native language and English to each other since you don't share a mutual language. It hasn't prevented my children from learning. Alternatively exposure to foreign shows in your native language helps.

No. There are a lot of things I care about in a registrar but it being a non-profit is not one of those things.

I care how it handles my domains, policy and all that jazz, particularly in cases of hacks, take downs, etc...

I care about customer service.

I care about some options it offers that is and can genuinely be useful.

I care about what it does right or wrong.

Basically things that affect me and my domains/businesses.

I use Flickr

Flickr + Backups (local and online)

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