“Start with *brevity*. Add other dimensions (features, speed, coding time, flexibility) as required by testing.

“Are we negotiating?
Always.

“..people who are depressed spend more time focused on negative images..

“Time in a startup. Our series A took five months start to finish.

Money in a startup. Angel round, series A, office lease, immigration, contracts, we’ve spent nearly $90,000 on legal fees this year. A good startup founder can create $50/hr in value. If you spend an hour saving $20 on a $100 graphics card, you’ve wasted money.

Hiring in a startup. We’ll do whatever it takes to get a good employee: $1,200 last-minute flights, $3,000 referral bonuses, 20% annual salary in recruiter commissions. Running a startup consumes your life. It is important to surround yourself with fun interesting people at work because work becomes your life.

“..by downloading an anti-phishing toolbar, you’re currently making yourself more vulnerable than if you had never downloaded it at all.

“We have to manage our own past [on the web] just like ancient egyptions had to manage their sarcophagus and afterlife.

“We’re on to something really cool that doesn’t fall into the same trap that blog comments have, and we promise you’ll be playing with it soon.

“Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Anil Kumble met the Indian board president and conveyed their wish to be coached by a foreigner.

“When you start explaining what you are doing and how to do it you find you’ve lost your own touch.

“Women make up 70 percent of Algeria’s lawyers and 60 percent of its judges. Women dominate medicine. Increasingly, women contribute more to household income than men.