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You're right about knowing where you stand on each item going into the negotiation. It's important to point out, however, that savvy corporate negotiators will insist on stepping through one item at a time, taking a strong position on most and offering up only a token gesture or two in order to disguise their true interests, build leverage and the appearance of good faith.

Anyone else notice that the bottom-right corner of the NSA doc is dated 20070108? Is that a month after the original iPhone was released or 6 months before?

Either way, quite the implication if the claims are authentic.

Plausible deniability can be an effective tool for a company too. It's certainly possible that Apple team members were indeed collaborating with the NSA (or FBI or some contractor equivalent) or that the NSA had access to Apple tech without the leadership aware of the specifics or even without any official corporate authorization/mandate in the first place.

Ahem. Anyone remember Six Degrees?

Let's not overlook the fact that Apple is offering consumers a genuine, lower priced alternative, albeit one that appeals to a subset of the market.

A technique used quite effectively when selling bundle tiers (e.g., platinum package vs. gold package vs. silver package, etc). Amazing that both Wall St and the general press have failed to recognize the 5c pricing for what it is: a brilliant decoy driving sales of the higher margin 5s.

Yes, startups typically retain counsel to assist with incorporation and fundraising. Mistakes made early on can come back to haunt you.

Check with your school. Perhaps they have an entrepreneurship program that can help?

You don't technically need a lawyer, but I would advise you to retain one.

Even if raising money with a convertible note, and using the community documents, you'll still need someone to file your Form D, prepare your board consent, and ensure all i's are dotted and t's crossed. You don't want to run afoul of the SEC.

Is your corporation established? Are you authorized to sell shares?

If you bring your own paperwork, you should be able to get away with <= $5k via a negotiated fixed price or cap on the legal work.

Some firms are also willing to defer payment up to a certain amount and/or until you raise additional funds down the line.

Nope. In the former speaker's own words...

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/19/opinion/gingrich-obama-congres...

We had two similar "partial shutdowns" of the US Gov't in the 1990's. Democratic President refusing to cut healthcare-related spending vs. Republican-controlled Congress holding the debt ceiling hostage. Sound familiar? Same game, different players.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_governmen...

Apple's obligatory response:

“Plaintiffs’ proposed injunction is a draconian and punitive intrusion into Apple’s business, wildly out of proportion to any adjudicated wrongdoing or potential harm. Plaintiffs propose a sweeping and unprecedented injunction as a tool to empower the Government to regulate Apple’s businesses and potentially affect Apple’s business relationships with thousands of partners across several markets. Plaintiffs’ overreaching proposal would establish a vague new compliance regime—applicable only to Apple—with intrusive oversight lasting for ten years, going far beyond the legal issues in this case, injuring competition and consumers, and violating basic principles of fairness and due process. The resulting cost of this relief—not only in dollars but also lost opportunities for American businesses and consumers—would be vast.”

http://allthingsd.com/20130802/apple-slams-feds-proposed-e-b...

I've always been under the impression that the legal definition of search and seizure requires "examination."

Zach, what was the reasoning behind using such large text for the code view? Will there be a zoom in/out option? Or a text size preference?

From what I understand, the government has required the telcos to sign agreements forcing them to cooperate with the transition to NBN infrastructure.

Still worse, as mandated by the Australian government, won't all internet traffic eventually switch over to the new government owned/controlled FTTP and wireless infrastructure of the National Broadband Network?

Meltdowns have the potential to release far more radioactive material than an atomic bomb. The radioactive material tends to consist of isotopes with high nuclear decay rates. And the material tends to stick around longer, slowly poisoning the environment, as opposed to a bomb blast which quickly scatters the material into the atmosphere.

If you remain on the downtown 6 train after the last stop (Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall), you get a glimpse of the abandoned City Hall station [1] as the train turns around. This was one of the very first NYC subway stations to open in 1904!

It's a beautiful piece of history. [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Hall_(IRT_Lexington_Avenue...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWF3IDk9Gek

Predicting the future is great and all. But in my experience, the best founders are the ones who execute in the present.

Would you consider the prior portable music market (Walkman, Discman, etc) a parallel?

Of course, time pieces have a much longer history. But as far as the modern consumer/brand marketplace is concerned, portable music devices certainly predated earlier MP3 players by decades, at least.

Instead, you can redirect to a web page with an iOS Smart Banner at the top. If the app is installed, the user must tap the open button. If the app is not installed, the user can tap the install button and the app will then install and open to the same designated in-app URL.

An alternative hacky method to avoid the web page is to redirect the browser to a JavaScript URL. However, this results in a momentary error popup, though it's automatically dismissed. And the user is still navigated to the backup URL when Safari returns to the foreground in the future.

For example: javascript:window.location = 'app-schema://'; window.setTimeout(function() { window.location = 'http://app-url; }, 10);

EDIT: After thinking about it, since timers are suspended when Safari enters the background, you can probably use setInterval and check how long it's been to decide whether the browser should navigate to the backup URL. The error popup remains a problem, however.

Resurfacing just in time for the BBC documentary, it appears.

Over the years, I've noticed that many left-handed people in my life (including my wife, family members, friends, co-workers, etc) have difficulty telling left from right. In fact, I recently had a conversation about this with two left-handed colleagues, and they both acknowledged the issue.

Is there really something to this? Is it environmental (growing up in a right-handed world)? Anyone have additional insight?

No state will have them. Literally.

Paul, states like CO, KY, NC, NJ, TN, TX and WA generally require you to collect sales tax for digital goods. I suggest you dig into it a bit with the advice of counsel.

Yes, you're 100% right. Typo. Too late to correct. Should read, "Pandora pays SoundExchange the statutory Non-Interactive Streaming rate for the sound recording rights."

Pandora pays for mechanical rights, but it's a lower rate than Spotify pays, for instance.

Check out TuneCore's Music Industry Survival Guide. It's a useful resource.

http://www.tunecore.com/guides/sixrights

Edit: I'm wrong (and so is Tunecore). Parent is partially correct, Pandora does not pay for mechanical rights. They qualify as a PurePlay Webcaster. However, Interactive Streaming services, such as Spotify, do have to pay mechanicals in addition to recording and performance.

That's correct, Pandora pays SoundExchange the statutory Interactive Streaming rate for the sound recording rights. SoundExchange in turn pays the appropriate rights holder. This might be an artist, directly, but often it's a record label. The labels don't like the revenue flowing through SoundExhange because the process is transparent to their artists. Which means they can't hide the money.

Pandora also pays the publishers for the performance right, separately from SoundExchange. This can be a fixed percentage of revenue. Societies like ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC generally administer the rights on behalf of the publishers.

Lastly, Pandora also pays Harry Fox Agency the statutory rate for the mechanical rights. HFA in turn pays the song writers.

Here's a good breakdown from an old and entertaining (view comments) TuneCore blog post: http://blog.tunecore.com/2012/03/the-additional-10-5-spotify...

Agreed. Sure, there is some obvious upside for Microsoft (talent, code, international rights), but they don't need Rdio. Rdio, on the other hand, desperately needs Microsoft. It's a politically motivated rescue. Similar to the MOG acquisition.

IMHO, Vinnie is exactly the guy you want to pitch (and have a beer with). Seek out the investors that will tell it like it is instead of simply telling you what you want to hear.

Disclaimer: I'm a mentor at Golden Gate Ventures, and Vinnie is a big reason why I agreed to join the team.

Apologies, the original site was having some difficulties which is why I submitted a link to the blog post instead.

Is this really necessary when you already have browser caching? Which is fairly robust/mature across the market.