Privacy and Startups

I'm humbled that you think my suggestions to Blippy were good ideas or that they were adopted.

Can I ask a personal favor? The circles I swim in professionally are very important to me: in addition to being respected friends and colleagues, they also do things like e.g. write letters when I need somebody to convince the Japanese immigration authorities that I'm not an undesirable pest who needs the boot.

The professional circles I swim in are largely concentrated in Nagoya, where I worked for the last several years. At a big company. So they'd be folks at other big companies. In Nagoya.

It could be socially awkward if my name turned up next to negative commentary about a big company in Nagoya.

nice post... while I do agree with most of the content on your post...could you elaborate a little more on the approach you guys are planning to take in particular? Also, one thing that probably may work against startups is while they may be really good at reacting to issues, at the same time, they are probably more prone to them to begin with.. I'd love to hear what others from HN have to say about this...