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Justin.tv's Emmett Shear makes Freudian slip about selling company
Kicking off a thread on Hacker News about how to sell a business, Emmett Shear, CTO of live-video startup Justin.tv, accidentally typed the name of his current employer instead of his previous company, Kiko Calendar, which was sold on eBay for $250,000. A sign the company is desperately looking for the exit? Who knows. But it certainly doesn't help to answer part of the original question about flipping a startup:How would you do it without causing problems (ie people thinking you're up for sale)?
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Yahoo millionaire Paul Graham secretly engaged to Jessica Livingston
Commenters on Hacker News, a Web discussion board, got their panties in a bunch over the weekend over whether to ban stories from Valleywag from the site. The move netted the otherwise obscure site, mostly frequented by graduates of Paul Graham's Y Combinator startup incubator, some coverage from Michael Arrington on TechCrunch. It also netted us a tipster who let us know Hacker News founder Graham, best known for flipping an e-commerce startup to Yahoo more than a decade ago, was engaged to longtime lover Jessica Livingston, author of Founders at Work. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by abmw: I believe that Ms. Livingston has been the organizational and marketing brains behind the desk at Ycomb Cambridge. The pic of... more » | Other threads
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