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You can download free landing page templates, or use landing page hosting services like unbounce, instapage, etc... https://www.quora.com/Are-there-services-similar-to-unbounce

That's the beauty of art, different strokes for different folks.

By the way, some people (like me) enjoy Warhol not for his actual artistic creations, but rather for shining a light on the absurdity of it all, akin to the storyline of "Exit through the gift shop".

Personally, I don't get Barnett Newman's paintings - http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=35...

For anyone (like me) wondering who Japan Power Plus / what they built:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/the-or...

I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but that is simply not true. You can dedicate your whole life to a task - being more persistent than anyone else has in the history of the world - and still fail. It's actually a pretty common occurrence in human history - people dedicate themselves to doing something that is impossible (i.e. turning something that is not gold to gold), and at the end of the day, fail.

While it sounds great as a soundbite, persistence alone is not enough to succeed at something. There has to be a realistic path to success. Persistence is then required to stay on that path until you reach the end.

A few reasons - but high level Google and FB didn't always support easy remarketing integration, hence a lot of big media agencies and companies are "grandfathered" into using services like AdRoll. It takes businesses a long time to switch service providers (and media agencies especially for a number of industry structure related reasons).

The same thing happened in Search Marketing software - initially lots of 3rd party companies moved in to offer software which enabled services beyond what Google enabled directly (Marin, Kenshoo, Efficient Frontier, etc...). Overtime Google has significantly increased the arsenal of tools available when buying direct from them, making it really tough to be a 3rd party search software provider, as you're basically just increasing the cost of the media.

More specifically - you can't refuse to give your SIN to a financial institution or to your employer (as for 99% of Canadians those are their main sources of income, and because those entities need to submit information to the government regarding your income for tax purposes).

For most other things though you can refuse to disclose it (i.e. telecom providers, debt-only financial institutions like credit card providers)

Personally, I prefer when people just say they are co-founders when there are no employees at the company. Kind of pretentious to introduce yourself as the Chief Executive Officer of no one.

From what I have been told by YC alum the assignment process for application review is randomized, meaning it is hypothetically possible that a direct competitor may read your application.

As a counter point, if you want to raise external funding, you probably should accept the fact you will likely have to share your idea without protection - as its unlikely any VC will sign an NDA, and you have no idea who they will push your pitch deck to in order to get a 2nd opinion.

Ask yourself this: why can't the founders afford to pay market salaries if they have successful businesses already, and had previous success with fundraising?

It's likely not that they can't pay you market wages, but rather that they don't want to for some reason. By that I mean they presumably could either pay out of pocket (if their other businesses have been financially successful), or they can sell the equity they are offering you to an investor, and then use the money they receive in return to pay you (that's the whole point of fundraising, after all!)

I would have an upfront conversation with them to find out the answers to these questions - maybe they strongly believe the equity is going to be worth a lot in the near future, and want you to share in that upside for your contributions. Or maybe they are trying to take advantage of you - only talking to them and reflecting on their responses will get you your answers.

Technically they already "sell advertising"; they just outsource the actual selling of the ads to Google (as they set your homepage to Google by default, and have a rev-share agreement with Google for any clicks on Ads in Google search results), and make it very easy to "opt out" (by changing your homepage away from the default).

See http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9244250/Mozilla_banke... .

This is a phenomenal Easter egg: http://companycheck.co.uk/company/06346944 (A corporate Id number for the fictional space mineral extraction company is flashed on a screen in the movie - a search on that corporate Id in the UK database shows its in fact a real registered corporation!)

A free solution is use Cloudflare, which you can setup to serve a custom page when your server is unreachable. On that custom page include a feed from twitter / facebook / blogspot.com.

There is a Toronto startup that plays in this space for the enterprise - http://www.guardly.com

I'm not knowledgeable, but some total guesses:

1) As blu-ray is a consumer product its probably manufactured in greater quantities than backup grade tapes, and therefore can be had lower in price, and there are more vendors to source them from. Similarly the drives themselves are cheaper.

2) Tapes aren't random access, therefore it's slow and cumbersome to retrieve single files.

Mockups w/photoshop = information architecture / user interface designer

Managing workers and segmenting tasks = project management

both are available as fields of study and are defined roles in most businesses -

Wood is basically more expensive than plastic for mass-manufactured items. The basic raw material is more expensive. You can't source a large volume of aesthetically-identical pieces, so its harder to produce identical items. You can't injection mold wood, so higher manufacturing costs.

There are "manufactured" woods which address many of these issues, but they also tend not to be deemed as beautiful / strong as the real thing.

True. Get them to be an investor in your firm, and that risk is reduced.

One thing to note about a lot of "infrastructure" businesses is it can make business sense for them to offer deep discounts to large customers to cover their overhead - they then make their profit by selling whatever excess capacity is left over to smaller customers.

I.e. imagine you want to setup a new courier business. You convince Amazon to move all their shipping to your new courier company, by giving them a price which is almost unprofitable for you. You then make your profit on the excess capacity you have, by selling it to individuals who need shipping at more profitable prices.

That would be a great (yet unsatisfying) twist for the end of a low budget sci-fi movie.

Yes, it will be a step down - but then again, SV has the strongest tech scene in the world, so pretty much anywhere would be a step down!

That being said, these will likely be of interest to you / get you familiar with who the players are in the startup scene in Canada:

http://www.techvibes.com/toronto/category/start-up-index

http://startupnorth.ca/index/index/

http://www.canadianinnovationexchange.com/

https://uwaterloo.ca/jobmine/employers

https://uwaterloo.ca/hire/

http://waterlootechjobs.com/en/

http://www.techjobswaterloo.com/

http://www.communitech.ca/

I'm guessing somewhere around Temuco based on the Llaima Volcano being in the background - absolutely beautiful area of the country (but then again, it's hard to find a part of Chile that isn't beautiful!)

According to this article only if you make money in the US, and therefore fall under the Canada-U.S. Tax Treaty ( http://www.icnl.org/research/journal/vol3iss3/ig_2.htm )

Reminds me 2 stories:

1) the Nazi's set up a "public friendly" concentration camp in the Czech Republic, Theresienstadt (1), which they took officials from the Red Cross to and used in media reports sent to the West which demonstrated the "rich Jewish cultural life." of their camps.

2) Crazy Eddie, an electronics store in the early 1980's which turned out to be a massive investor fraud, (2) had a warehouse filled with boxes so he could have an audit, a necessity to go public - the first row of boxes were filled with merchandise, the rest of the boxes were empty.

TL;DR - Humans are trusting people, show them something, and tell them "everything else is just like this thing", and most people will believe you at your word.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresienstadt_concentration_ca...

(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Eddie

Just some more background - DDB is part of the Omnicom group, which is one of the world's largest advertising agency holding companies. SpikeDDB is a collaboration between spike lee and DDB (and therefore Omnicom by extension). All that being said, I don't personally know if the agency in question is SpikeDDB or not.

Most would likely fall into a "speculator" definition, as they don't actually use bitcoins for transactions - therefore they aren't really "adopting" bitcoin, but rather are just stock piling something in hopes it goes up in value in the future.

I.e. if I buy 20 new xboxes but leave them sealed for resale before Christmas, I'm not really an early adopter, instead i'm just a speculating opportunist, even though I did purchase the consoles the day they were released - the same time the "early adopters" did.

I've had the same experience in major American cities - hotels being cheaper than AirBnB - but only when looking at full apartment rentals on AirBnB. You can (obviously) usually rent a couch cheaper than a hotel room, but that's not really comparing apples to apples.

That being said, both AirBnB and hotels make it difficult to compare their prices "apples to apples" as hotels tend not to include taxes and service fees in their posted prices / AirBnB tends not to include cleaning fees (last time I checked)

For anyone wanting to hire students from Waterloo / looking for work in the area:

https://uwaterloo.ca/jobmine/employers / https://uwaterloo.ca/hire/

http://waterlootechjobs.com/en/

http://www.techjobswaterloo.com/

http://www.communitech.ca/

I think what you're suggesting is there are more people speculating on bitcoin's value than the value of some of these other examples - that is probably accurate, as in many ways the barriers to entry to start speculating on the value of bitcoin are low.

This article really just tells the story that when there is a fixed supply of something, and demand increases, price increases of that thing. In some cases people have that thing stored in their attic and forget about it, in which case they get a pleasant surprise that they now can trade it for a greater value than they first purchased it for (assuming there is liquidity in the market).

Granted - the speed of the price increase of Bitcoin is very impressive - other examples from history:

- Man buys $27 of Gold Coins, finds they're now worth $886K

- Man buys $27 of Tulips, finds they're now worth $886K

- Man buys $27 of Railroad shares, finds they're now worth $887K

- Man buys $27 of (insert .com boom company) Shares, finds they're now worth $886K

- Man buy $27 of Beanie Babies, finds they're now worth $886K