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I don't know about now, but ~4 years ago installing from scratch I tried SELinux and after hours of configuring it still wasn't recognizing some hardware. Then I tried OpenBSD or FreeBSD, and it was up and running with minimal configuration. YMMV.

Cornerstone OnDemand, which IPO'ed last month. Located in Santa Monica, CA (Los Angeles area). Hiring for ASP.NET / C# / SQL developers. Specifically, Web Software Engineer (.Net/SQL), Software Engineer (WCF/.Net), Senior SQL Database Engineer (SQL Server 2008).

http://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/careers

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Cornerstone-OnDemand-Review...

I heard a rumor that they used to be on Cold Fusion? If true, a move from that to any other technology, including Microsoft stack, would be a good move.

While Los Angeles doesn't stereotypically have good developers, good developers exist here. Demand Media and Google have 300+ people offices here. I suspect the problem is, either MySpace didn't hire good developers/architects, or MySpace hired them but management didn't listen to them.

In regards to intellectual stuff, that's with rare exceptions only in the academic world, which pays in the bottom quartile easily. The side note is, I've known PhD candidates to get paid low for full-time work but mucho dinero for hourly contract work.

In regards to top 1% compensation, the true top 1% aren't hireable because they have their own startup companies. The top 1% compensation as has been discussed on HN before goes to domain experts. Lesson learned: become a domain expert.

I was going to say, seems more like a list of things that introverted people do. Either way (obsessive/introverted), I wouldn't define it as "smart".

> 3x multiple of revenues

Yes but what is your growth rate of you / your sector. If revenues are set to double next year, the multiple will be higher.

> the offer is low by about 20%

Don't accept the offer. "We don't go back and forth on it" is equivalent to "We think you are naive and will accept the first offer on the table." Also you are right not to value stock as highly as cash. If the offer is stock, heavily discount it, or refuse the stock and accept cash only.

>Passion for your product or solution should be the driving force behind an entrepreneurial endeavor.

I had this discussion with a co-worker. While I think you shouldn't have hatred/distaste for your product or solution, I think it's more important that you have passion for helping your customers/clients in a good-for-everyone way. For this reason I'd ideally entrepreneur in the charity sector, because I have a passion for helping charity organizations.

There might be varying shades of grey to this argument. I'm a web application developer, and my co-worker would only pursue building ASP.NET websites related to his passion, music. Less extreme versions would be either building for any platform in any programming language, something music related. Or building ASP.NET web sites/services but not for music. Also varying definitions of "passion".

As a photographer and Photoshop user, I'd recommend getting the word out by targeting teachers of Photoshop / design / photography classes. I know the last photography class I took, the teacher probably inspired alot of the students to purchase denoising plugins (Noise Ninja or Topaz DeNoise), and he only talked about them for maybe 5 minutes. Probably not worth "I'll do it if you send me $500 first", but worth giving out some free copies. If not teachers, good idea to find out who the influencers are in your niche and target them. (Influencers =/= Google AdWords.)

Please link to your startup (in this case, Swayable) at first mention in the first paragraph! Name is mentioned but not until the third paragraph is there a link to http://www.swayable.com.

As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden.

Start a new company called Page Brin Consulting and offer outrageously priced (aka highly profitable) business consulting services, similar to what Microsoft and IBM do.