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tylerarnoldon Poll: Hackernews Meetup: Stuttgart, Germany

Agreed -- Munich would be better for me as well. There's also a StartupDigest Newsletter there. My guess is that would be an easy way to promote the event?

tylerarnoldon Life as a Second Class Citizen of the Web

I'm having the exact same issue while traveling in Romania.

Romania is a part of the European Union as well. It's incredibly frustrating just to sit there and get "unable to process."

What a crappy error message too. How about "this is a suspicious transaction. Please call GoDaddy or join a LiveChat session to continue."

It really feels second class. Fuck indeed!

tylerarnoldon A zombie keyboard, an app-store rejection, a call from Steve Jobs

I still just can't believe Jobs called the guy.

Wow!

tylerarnoldon What do YC Founders think about working at Big Companies?

From what I understand, this seems to be a bigger problem in European countries (government/regulation included).

The cost of forming a German equivalent LLC is about 27,000EUR after legal fees, and take about a week to complete.

I heard a similar story from a friend who used to work at a German bank (a regional one). She mentioned that four or five copies of almost every single paper had to be made, with a copy going into a separate individuals inbox (a physical in-box).

Now she works for an IT startup in Alaska... You can imagine that she really appreciates the difference!

tylerarnoldon Maybe outsourcing QA isn't such a good idea after all.

I completely agree. You can find trusting people overseas... It all comes from building a relationship.

Granted, being 5,000 miles away (and not having face to face contact) can hamper that process, but there are plenty of trusting and responsible "outsourced" individuals that can handle quality control jobs.