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Busted - Latin Pricing Plans

Josh Kopelman recently discovered my unlinked pricing page for the Jotspot Family Site. Josh seems to think our pricing strategy isn’t written. I think the big problem is he doesn’t understand Latin. If he could read Latin he would see it is a very well thought out pricing plan. When you combine the brilliant pricing [...]

On startups: the natural behaviors of startup funding

Natural behaviors (n) - behaviors that would most likely occur given no interfering effort.
It seems like there has been a lot of recent discussion on the “right way” to fund a startup. The “current right way” seems to be bootstrap, with a healthy dose of venture capitalists vilification. By bootstrap I mean funding yourself based [...]

Jargon Watch - free soda

“Well, they have free soda”
Used as a glib answer to the question “how do you like working for _______?” Implies that beyond the soda, there isn’t much good about it.
Can also be used as a biting response to the “how do you like working for ______?” When used in this fashion it is [...]