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Yes, you can use something like AWR or ADS. Although they cost megabucks.

Interesting that in the spirit of the usual startup discussions here on Hacker News, no one has mentioned that this is/was a single founder company. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose_Corporation

Kudos to Dr. Bose.

Unfortunate the way it was said. Jobs said something similar but it sounds so different:

"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?"

Where the BMW/Mercedes could have been RIM's analogy to something in the enterprise world.

indochino is crap. Speaking from experience. I've ordered from them online and visited their traveling tailor as well. Crap fabric, crap fitting, crap tailoring.

Guys please get yourself fitted by a professional. Dudes in Canada might want to visit Harry Rosen.

I'm pretty happy with Skydrive. 25GB for free.

This is unfortunate. Yes the company maximized their IPO take. But at the end of the day the ones who got screwed were the retail investors who bought into the media hype. This will hurt tech IPOs in general.

The quality of posts that make it to #1 on ycombinator lately leave me unmotivated to check the site as frequently as I used to. As a result I work more, cry less and quit whining.

Woah... 5GB! I'm so there.

This is awesome!

On a per sample basis it is very difficult to distinguish between signal and noise. So your lack of definition as to what 'per unit time' means leaves me very confused.

It's actually 66.67% and 33.33%.

"I spend more than that on coffee."

LOL. Every web service is pitched to me at "less than the price of a cup of coffee a day"

Here are a few - 1) LinkedIn Business account 2) Emusic subscription 3) Adobe PDF writer 4) Freshbooks and the list goes on...

I should explain further. I started out with Dropbox and am almost at the limit. I don't have disposable income (startup founder). So I started looking for alternatives - that's when I discovered Skydrive.

PS. Have you tried Zumodrive - it's almost exactly like Dropbox.

I just started using Skydrive. 25GB of space for free. Competition does matter.

This is a really good point. The importance of good written and oral communication skills is often downplayed but likely one of the most important in the workplace.

Looks like there's a Ycombinator startup idea in here somewhere!

Yes. 20+ years now.

<1hr.everyday.

Totally worth it.

"But if big companies aren’t being built because of this small thinking, we’ll all suffer sooner or later. "

This assumes that SV has only web and software startups. Certain kinds of companies (biotech, telecom, etc.) do need VC, and these companies are built to IPO. That won't change.

Yes, if you want to do a web 2.0 startup, then the valley is the place to be. No doubt!

Although I then think of Flickr, Plenty of Fish, Club Penguin, etc. and realize that this is not necessarily true.

How many VC-backed companies actually do well enough for the founders to get rich? Not that many - you're better off bootstrapping and then flipping the co. for a $ amount that is in the few million. And I think the Valley is the worst place to bootstrap due to the high cost of living.

And don't get me started on the high cost of getting health insurance. You're better off in Toronto.

Money changes everything; People, relationships, principles, slogans, etc. to name a few.

When I read this first I thought Viggo http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001557/ was joining RIM and then I.....

These guys can't. They're over 40 and we all know that unless you're 20-something you cannot do anything startup-related.