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Comment · 14 years ago
Follow the money.

Partners at VC funds are employed (funded) by limited partners (LPs). LPs are typically institutional cash and tend to be conservative. A26Z's LPs and potential LPs would not be pleased if they saw a video of Ben giving a talk wearing his "No Bitch Ass Ness" t-shirt.

Comment · 14 years ago
Oh god damn it. CouchSurfing.org is absolutely going to be ruined by taking VC money.

It existed for years as a totally free volunteer based non-profit. The site was kinda crappy and was sometimes slow, but it just worked. The important things were the community and its network effects.

Now these VCs will be looking for their huge exit and they'll eventually start fucking with the site (see: Quora). What a shame.

Comment · 14 years ago
Go read about investor qualification and why taking on an unqualified investor at an early stage can hurt your company.
Comment · 14 years ago
Hi. I recognized your name. Love this essay: http://ranprieur.com/essays/dropout.html

Are you a technology worker? I've noticed many people with critiques of civilization are into technology.

Comment · 14 years ago
Yep. I came here to post this. UPS definitely has your credit report.
Comment · 14 years ago
In the US, logged into my US Amazon account that is linked to a Kindle I see the price of $2,99
Comment · 14 years ago
Keep telling yourself that. Just because we're not the audience of BCC or AR doesn't mean you're not selling something to us.
Comment · 14 years ago
Kickback's corpus only goes back to June 2012.
Comment · 14 years ago
Hey Patrick,

I have a question. Why is the title of your http://patrickambron.brandyourself.com/ brandyourself page "Patrick Ambron, Internet"? Specifically, why ", Internet"?

Comment · 14 years ago
>The signups from foreign publications were pretty bad. They signed up for free at high rates, but they just don't pay (.5%). Not entirely sure why, but until we figure it out, we put people from those places on a wait list

Do you have international friendly payment methods? Regionally tiered pricing? And what do you mean by, "we put people from those places on a wait list"?

Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
That is not anarchism.
Comment · 14 years ago
What "whole anarchism thing" are you referring to?
Comment · 14 years ago
I suspect the largest example is Android.
Comment · 14 years ago
How does freelancing relate to consulting?

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