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those are sweet. i want one.

no clue what it is or what it does

"Betting against the entire sector would have been clumsy." It's my impression that he did just this. Short financials, long oil. This was a sweet position until about 2.5 months ago and apparently he either didn't get out or took up new positions elsewhere that went bad because they are down big now.

keyword "intern" + http://www.jobamatic.com/a/jbb-static/home

it's hilarious. don't ruin it.

sounds good. to be clear, i don't think his piss is actually having an impact and hurting anyone's feelings. more like he's pissing in the same spot where he's planning to sit and eat lunch.

matt's post pisses on people who hold a lot of clout within the industry in which he operates for no reason other than to get traffic to his blog. this seems shortsighted to me. maybe i'm wrong. let alone the fact that sequoia is the firm that put out the deck while kleiner is the only VC that has openly eschewed web 2.0 investments. they have been investing in energy and mobile while others put money into the seesmics. kleiner won't even listen to pitches from 99% of web companies even if they have a solid introduction. but matt decided to take a very public piss on them. it's a very small world. and the difference in tone within the comments on this thread vs. the "sequoia: armchair quarterbacks" is laughable.

not at all

mildly amusing, yes. dead on, no. like watching a train wreck in slow motion, yes.

pretty juvenile IMO. great bridge burning though. nailed that part.

Rackspace was most recent - anyone know the other 5?

ok. even if it's 10%, that's 1M new smartphone users a month in india, which is massive growth. i don't agree with this article at all. even though matt is a gambling man, i'm guessing he's not shorting companies banking on mobile growth - he's just trying to get traffic to his blog.

there are maybe 3 people posting in this thread who have any idea what they are talking about.

BofA already cleaned house in their banking group earlier this year. doubt the need more bankers.

the only way they are acting like a startup is cultivating an aggressive, edgy, hip culture. better example is a law firm that IS a startup: axiom legal (http://www.axiomlaw.com). backed by benchmark (kagle) and panorama. and yes, they too cultivate the edgy and hip.

bezos. dang.

these guys are great:

http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/

this is an incredibly good article. i have had it open in my browser for a couple of days and finally read it today. wow.

works in opera and safari.

nearly impossible to get smooth edits in camtasia IMO. we just do full takes in one shot (yeah it might take several attempts)

thanks for the ballsy urban dictionary definition link. that really made the post for me.

shoot them an email to get pricing. they are massively more flexible than paypal, no branding on your site, and cheaper. seriously.

thanks for the responses. i put up a long one 2x earlier but the site was all jacked up. in short i think ringcental has more corporate type options than GC, i haven't been psyched with 37 signals stuff (although it looks sweet!) but will check out campfire as well as theplanet (and lots of people psyched on slicehost - i'll check that too).

That's a very interesting idea - have to think about how we could pull that off. It definitely would be informative...but tough since there is going to be huge variance in who people are going to want to talk to.

Thanks for clarifying. We're looking for design feedback here, as well as anything else we can get.

Glad you think it's better than v1 - anything in particular jump out that could be better with this design?

hopefully we removed enough text for you guys...

in for meetups...applied to fb group