Archive for September, 2008
Startup Hacks: 7 Questions VCs Will Ask You, What They Really Mean, and How You Can Answer Them – Mashable
7. What’s your valuation expectation?
Translation: Dance rabbit!
Best answer: We’re obviously very excited about our company, but we’re going to see what the market says.
You don’t want to project a valuation expectation early on, because that answer [...]
One of the mistakes of my life? « Mostly Thoughtless
…recently, after reading about how Chetan Bhagat’s books sell 10 gazillion copies every minute, I’ve realized that a chronic inability to write well, make sense and positively impact the emotions of your readers is no longer a road block to becoming a successful novelist.
My book will [...]
The Pursuit of Happiness
He is not talking about the pursuit of happiness. He's not even talking, as one might easily and incorrectly conclude, about lying in wait for happiness. He's talking about making oneself genuinely available to it. He is talking about opening one's senses to the little delights – the sunsets, the lilac-scented breezes, [...]
AEI – Short Publications – Virtue? The Good?
I am happy to report that today's gifted students are, for the most part, nice. They are not racist, sexist or homophobic. They want to be generous to those who are less fortunate. They say please and thank you.
But being nice is not being good. Living a nice [...]
I Am Not Having a Crisis by John Renehan, City Journal Summer 2008
I wonder how we came to a point at which young persons—of a class that once viewed military service as an ordinary expression of its own privileged relationship to the state—could come to see the act of entering service as an oddity requiring [...]
Money into thin air… – Views – livemint.com
Too bad you are not entitled to any relaxation on the refund rules set by the airlines, you shall lose some or most of what you paid. This would be understandable to some extent if the airlines reciprocated. But when it is their turn, and the flight gets [...]
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