Lisa2000

Thank you for your generosity. Good luck with this project.

2 days ago I cancelled Basecamp. Why? Pricing. Duet looks beautiful. I agree, hosting for less tech savvy users would be great. The pricing is great for self-hosted. Frankly, the SaaS adds up quickly, and my hurdle rate is 10x (I have to save 10x the comparable annual dollar cost for Saas it to be sustainable).

Then check your shareholding agreement, talk to your lawyer, and move carefully.

My first reaction is to tell you to act on the shareholder agreement and change the equity. Buy her out if you can. You build a new team. You have already waited too long.Great friends do not make great partners. However, you may be better served by having a trusted advisor speak with both of you individually, then together, to mediate. There may be more going on here than you know, and if there is a chance to clear the air and start afresh, you should find that. Finding cofounders is hard. You must have a trusted advisor that can do this for you -- it's part of why we have advisors, no?

It's everywhere, and not getting better. Recently heard this advice when I went to pitch a company, "just do your best, it's uphill, because you're not (ethnicity) and you're a woman, so good luck." What Lennon said 40 years ago is still true. Lean in.

The site claims safer but it doesn't feel safer. The first click opens my files for me to select one to upload, yet why am I going to upload a file to a completely unknown entity? Who is/are Mega? What gives user confidence to entrust (confidential / personal / business) file uploads to Mega? There are a few steps missing here, I would work on building customer confidence. Unless you are aiming for uploads within a network of people who know and trust you for other reasons. Good luck.

There is a lot of fresh thinking shared at HN, and I check New Links and comments here more often than I check any aggregated news sites or NYTimes or Merc.

Neat demo last week on alternative to word captchas -- cartoon catcha, eg drag hat on top of head, put eyeglasses on face, from Mitsuo Okada of Osaka University, at Founders Institute, he's at [email protected]

As a curly haired woman, who read the article, I'd add that there is a small cultural shift afoot. Curly means natural, not straightened, not brazilian'd, not a weave, wig or blowout. Curly power: claim it. Next up: naturally grey hair. Straight + dyed hair = how women subjugate ourselves. Read somewhere that Paul Mitchell Hair Products and Patron tequila are behind the Curly Hair Network, and if that's true, then this curly network is content marketing.

This is what the preview of Microsoft's new web site could have looked like, very well done, inspiring.

I am completely underwhelmed beyond the responsiveness, which is nice. Feels very yesterday. One click thru to products page, and it's more underwhelming. Shows lack of vision for the company. "Managing home and homework just got easier." Really? This is the best their designers and copywriters can show us?

the credit card calibration was nice. Would be interesting for electronics (Which I buy more frequently than jewelry). Would be neat to have life size faces for hangouts and Skype.