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Justin.tv's Emmett Shear makes Freudian slip about selling company

Jackson West — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:00:00 EDT

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)?

Just look busy, okay?

Nick Douglas — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:52:44 EDT

A big part of this company is looking like you're working. If you're not working, at least look like you're doing something. (Justin Kan, star of the streaming Justin.tv show, to his producer Lindsay. Justin's last project was Kiko, a web calendar that was quickly outgunned by 30 Boxes and Google Calendar before Justin's team sold the business on eBay for under $300k. — NICK DOUGLAS)

News shorts: HP won't invite leaker back to the board

Nick Douglas — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 14:54:40 EDT

Hewlett-Packard won't give George Keyworth a chance at re-election for the board next March, after the director leaked info to CNET, got investigated by chairwoman Patricia Dunn, and refused to resign despite his fellow directors' demands. Meanwhile, California's attorney general is investigating HP's investigation. Dunn, Keyworth, and former director Tom Perkins are exchanging barbs, each accusing another of violating their privacy. [Bloomberg]
Old news will exist again, thanks to the new Google News Archive Search, which Google will announce today. Some archives will stretch back over 200 years. [NY Times, no reg]
Intel cans ten thousand employees as expected, meanwhile planning to build new factories. [NY Times, no reg]
Webmail provider Tucows bought Kiko for the same reason the web calendar company failed: Kiko isn't really a product, but it's a great feature. [Tucows Blog]