jvandenbroeck

It's a suspicious post, why would you make a post if attackers are performing a sms phishing, that happens all the time.

Yeah I hate it when I have to pay more for a service as a European.

It might seem silly but that's the reason I cancelled my Spotify account, I didn't want to pay a 'European' premium. I hate it when they check from which country your creditcard number is - Netflix is nice that they allow you to register in a different country with a VPN & don't check the credit card country.

At what time do you come home/start working? I'm living next to work, but with 8 hours to work I don't have much time to do anything else.. start around 9, work until around 6pm (8hours + 1hour lunch) that doesn't leave much time

Yeah, I wouldn't want to be one of the VCs that's named in the article.

Maybe the 'dumb vc' thinks you have what it takes to be successful as a person with the right product and that's why he/she wants to talk to you without knowing the product. If he/she reads this article you probably lost a fan.

Maybe he/she honestly just wanted to give good advice, if you think the advice sucks then you are the stupid one to meet 6 times with the VC..

I think the equity grabbing thing is a bit over rated, although it feels like that if you're starting something and want to get other people on board. Get rational and communicate.

Sometimes it's even funny, at a 2 day hacking/business event, you make something with 6 people, two of these people make 90+% of the product. 2 people just stand by the team the whole time barely contributing and 2 people (business) people, are greatly contributing to strategy.

At the end of the hacking event there is a talk about continuing with the project and starting something up, it is so obvious that it is almost not even brought up. People kinda evade the topic. Then somebody starts to talk about it and everybody quickly agrees that 50/50 split is the obvious fair way to start something.

I don't have to tell you this 'startup' didn't last that long :)

I've started some things and the 'obvious' way is always to go 50/50, but if you're doing most of the work, thinking etc it's not very motivating to continue. Not all start ups start with everybody quitting their job at the same time.

So yeah I think it's a case to case situation, if you both quit your job, have the same programming and business input then you have an awesome situation and 50/50 is great.

Bold claims without any evidence backing it up.

Imo it would also depend on the culture from the user; I wouldn't be surprised that too much apologizing would come over as "weak" in some cultures. This might influence the impression of your product.

Cool looks very nice! I might use it for my new years' resolution to write something:p I would only be cautious because I'd be afraid of losing data (what if I write a whole book with your site & suddenly you go offline) & on the pdf version there 's also a white border around the book, it might be nice to be able to remove this or change it. For the rest it looks very awesome! Nice templates, easy to use etc=)

I would work more on the value proposition; Why would I send the drive back if I can just put it somewhere in my home? I don't think bandwidth and processor power are huge constraints these days?

There are very nice solutions out there already, Microsoft Lync & IBM Sametime.