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Braintree is not a great example of a company that "didn't take VC." According to Crunchbase they raised a $34 million series A round and a $35 million series B round. BigCommerce also raised a $15 million series A round and a $20 million series B round.

Perhaps she meant ſlashdot.

I realize this is a subtle point but I think the more accurate verb in this case is mandate rather than provide. I.e. countries don't provide maternity/paternity leave; they require employers to provide it.

That list is a bit out of date: http://gigaom.com/2012/07/09/github-finally-raises-funding-1...

The last 2 sound good.

Really? "Nerds?" I think the word you're looking for is "experts."

Do they have a competitor whose angle is customer-powered support? I don't know anything about this business, but this sounds like a response to a competitor.

"it's hard to determine which course of study is most infested with cheating. But I'd say education is the worst."

Have you attended any planning hearings in your town?

Odd. There are on Yahoo image search:

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A9G_bDiWzT...

Can anyone figure out who the VC was? Would be interesting to know.

Last sentence: "Granted, I haven't been to Austin and haven't spent a significant amount of time in Silicon Valley..."

If there is a significant trend here, it would be better to explore it than to try to suppress exploration with dismissive witticisms.

He did do more. He deleted his account, and told everyone on HN he had.

The guy sounds unnecessarily harsh. He could just have said "Congrats on the article. How's the company doing?" I don't think I'd want him as an investor.

Wow, NEA is in 6 of the top 10. That's what happens when you raise such huge funds.

If the government was buying high-polluters, though, there would be 10x more of them. People would keep them running and sell them to the government rather than junking them.

And no other metro area has more than 1.

Relax, he's not attacking Jobs or bragging about himself, just saying he's fortunate to be healthy.

He wasn't saying college felt like prison, just that it was a worse financial deal.

> you are not likely to get funding until you move here

Not so: people could do the initial work for startups on student and H1-B visas, which they could then convert if they got funded.

Not if it was so advanced it got you out of the country.

I'd try to negotiate with Cornell. Might be worth going there in person. If not, your scheme of starting at Tufts and transferring seems reasonable. If you worry about lame peers, take upper-level courses as a freshman. Audit them if they won't let you register because of prerequisites. I suspect most profs would even grade your work in a case like that, so you'd get the full intellectual benefit of the class, just not the credit.

It's not really spending. What's presumably happening is that the companies are merging, and the Sun part of the merger is going to worth $7 billion.

I could do it in a second.

Ironic in light of http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/22/the-nasty-exploding-ter...