Scott_MacGregor's comments

I like Consolas. It's monospaced and designed for programming.

NANO USB flash drives are useful for laptop backups.

With an equal number of founder elected Directors and VC elected Directors, if your outside tiebreaker director is brought in by the VC's you will be in danger of losing control because you cannot control the situation.

Especially if the tie breaker is planning on doing some additional business with the VC in the future, you may not have a truly neutral person casting the vote.

So, how is founder control typically structured?

For instance, do founder Stockholders get 2 votes per share to elect Directors with, and VC's get 1 vote per share with a guaranteed VC director seat on the board? Or are Directors elected by founders getting 2 votes on a particular decision item A and 1 vote on decision item B, and VC Directors get 1 vote on A and B?

Does anyone know what is currently going on with this?

You should have found "one" who was interested (hot to work on your project) while you were there, and "closed the deal" right there.

Separate the wheat from the chaff, and ABC (always be closing)!

If you thought to get their e-mail (in my opinion, the best way to "initially" communicate with most coders) pop them an e-mail and see if they are still interested. Not everyone is a phone person.

It might be more productive to isolate genes that relate to a low IQ, and then discard those from the sample. When looking for a needle in a haystack it would make the haystack smaller.

WARNING: Trojan.JS.Redirector.cq caught by my software comming from this site.

WARNING: Trojan.JS.Redirector.cq caught by my software comming from this site.

I think it would be nice if this were a co-founder meetup/founders networking & drinks.

Broaden the horizon a little and include founders who are not looking for co-founders among the networking time.

Try it as an iteration and see if it improves the quality of entire evenings experience for everyone.

Maybe think about building separate robots for each task (tub, etc...) that can be permanently attached to wall or the ceiling near its work spot. Tasks could be accomplished using special arms for each sub-task. A lifting arm, a chemical spraying arm, etc...

It would take the "where am I" "where is the target" out of the robots equation. You could simply hardcode the desired movements into the robot. Then if you wanted to sell them you could build a learning routine into the code so the public could easily use it after bolting it to the walls in their houses.

Why not just write it into Federal law that a site can act as its own registered DMCA Takedown Agent, instead of having everyone go through additional red tape and pay a $105 fee to run a blog.

In a way it seems like the fee to register is a freedom of speech issue. Pay an inconsequential tiny fee to run a blog, or potentially suffer huge financial losses. Kind of like the old Poll Tax from years ago.

It seems like being proactive as builders and maintainers of the internet, and getting a new field added to the WHOIS data for a DMCA takedown email addresses would make the process easier to administer for the complaintants, and more in keeping with Freedom of Speech that the United States is founded on.

I think if you can make money with it, then it's a good business idea. I say go for it, and make a commitment to make it work!

Sorry guys, it looks like this article is behind a paywall. I didn't realize it at first, but there is a workaround.

if you Google

FCC moves to ensure ‘net neutrality’

It will bring up the correct page from ft.com (Financial Times). Just click the link from Google and it will let you behind the paywall for free.

All the software is doing is checking that the clicked link comes from Google. If so you are behind the paywall and can read it. If not, it throws you onto a generic page.

Here is a cut and past that will bring the article up (at 5am Austin time)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=FCC+m...

Call the bank that issued your card immediately, and tell them what happened. They will probably cancel the card number and send you new card. Give them all of the information you found out about the illicit user too. If you wait, the user may max out your credit limit and it will stay maxed out until the bank settles the disputed items.

Yes, I noticed it too.

I don't know what the backend is, but if it's on a single shared machine it might be too many inquires on the hardware at once. Maybe ask the hosting company to move it to a machine with a lower load.

These guys sure iterated into something desirable. I think they have a great URL name too. Very catchy and rememberable.

One thing that I get as a "take away message" from the company is "austerity". I think this was reinforced by the founders speech about the business at Startup School 2010, and articles like this one in TechCrunch stressing the founders homelessness: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/21/airbnb-brian-chesky/

I may not be the only one with this perspective. If you look at the picture that Venturebeat chose for the article, it is someone sleeping on the floor in an empty room. Which to me does not seem exactly like the kind of PR message that is congruent with hospitality.

Based on his speech at Startup School, the founder and CEO Brian Chesky seem s like a very charismatic guy, which is great for a CEO, but from a business perspective, it seems like it might be time to think about changing the message that is sent out to the public and leave the old message of austerity in the deep dark past.

Good job Brian, and congratulations on the financing!

It looks like the startup climate in Midwest is starting to get focused. With the state of the economy right now that is a great thing for everyone.

One thing that swayed us as a company to move to Austin was the great business climate offered by Texas. One of the stated purposes of the Texas government is to "get out of the way" so a company can focus on the competition, and they seem to do that very well. That along with the favorable tax climate (no personal income tax, and a relatively high threshold before any corporate/franchise tax kicks in) made Austin seem very attractive to us. You don't even need a business license in Austin. Basically, you can keep and reinvest a lot more of what you earn.

Maybe Kansas City can take a look at what Austin has to offer and use some of the positives to build an even "greater" startup atmosphere than you guys have now.

Here is a YouTube speech by the governor of Texas outlining the Texas philosophy about startups. He pretty much hits on all of the points that we found attractive when locating here. Maybe you guys could use some of these ideas too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbOtHDshfj4

Here you go:

http://contracts.corporate.findlaw.com/finance/loan/4422.htm...

http://contracts.corporate.findlaw.com/LCsearch.html?entry=c...

Do not try to "wing this" yourself, have an attorney do it.

There is no reason it could not use a database, but not that I know of. The email messages end up in a directory in plain text. So for instance if you are running MS Server 2003 with the MS email server setup, the system admin (with the proper permissions) can go in and read your emails with notepad. Same goes for Linux email servers. Maybe Gmail (or another huge service provider) uses a database on the backend, but as far as I know email is just directories and text files.