"It really depends on the criticism. Some people do not critique things so much as dismiss them. It is a waste of time to engage with such people is such a mode." - Danielle Fong
"It seems to me as if the ideal cofounder is one whom:
a) You very nearly can't, or wouldn't do without.
b) Is working as hard as they can to get this thing going.
c) Is totally committed.
d) Can do rare things that you cannot yourself do.
and
e) Feels the same way about you.
In such a circumstance and nearly equitable split is almost certainly the best option.
If you don't feel the same way, there might be some kind of way to split the equity, but it seems much, much harder to get a good outcome. Then again, you probably shouldn't be founding with such a team? I did; and ultimately the other founders bailed or fizzled out, and I had to let them go.
PS: Hi! How is trailbehind going?" - Danielle Fong
"My false positive rate for 'cofounder material,' to date, is nearly 80%. Keep that in mind when you consider splitting 50/50.
You almost certainly should vest. But a better way is to run a little trial period of three months or so, maybe with a little bit of vesting, and then negotiate. He should be happy to demonstrate his worth. If he can't you'll have to make the hard decision, but at least it will be based on something.
Keep in mind that friendship does not, in my experience, really survive a broken business relationship, unless you both go down with the ship. Even if the split is respectful and equitable." - Danielle Fong
"Additionally, one of the issues with increased CO2 content in the oceans is acidification. The oceans can't absorb more CO2, even in biomass, without this occurring." - Danielle Fong
"What's the actual figure?
Do you have another explanation for the receding ice caps, then? Do you have a different prediction for the greenland glacier?" - Danielle Fong
And in fact, the receding ice caps are receding much faster than previous models predicted, so I'd say that Global warming predictions are under-estimated, rather than being over-estimated. - Piaw Na
"Heh. I remember, four months ago, looking at the GM financials, and telling my cofounder; you know, this Volt business, it's all moot. It doesn't even look like they'll make it.
I definitely didn't put my money where mouth was on that one..." - Danielle Fong
"How exactly will burying gigatons of CO2 from growing gigatons of trees after pulling up gigatons of CO2 from the same earth not constitute massive control over the economy? One billion hectares?!! That's 10,000,000 km^2. That is more half the 19,824,000 km^2 of total arable land! There isn't enough arable land for food! You'd have to take it from lands far less fertile. And where?
What you are suggesting is a massive 'carbon cycling' economy, digging up CO2 from fossil fuels, burning it, recovering that CO2 from trees, and then burying it. Over long, long timescales, this is the same process by which the fossil fuels were synthesized. It should be least plausible that this is not the most efficient thing we can come up with!" - Danielle Fong
"I don't know how you'd measure this, but to me, broad and vague they are not. They make very specific and very falsifiable claims about personality, and all out of a mere 4 bits of information. The first time I read my profile (ENFP) it was like a bolt of lightning shot through me. It had me to a 'T.' My parents couldn't describe me so well. And my experience is far from atypical.
There are a bunch of other major statistical discoveries about the different groups. For example, INTP's have the lowest level of coping resources, while their cousins, the ENTP's, have the highest! INTJ's have the highest college GPA's, while the adjacent INTP's have among the lowest, scoring far below what their aptitude tests would indicate. There is a lot of real information in those few bits!
http://www.ransdellassociates...." - Danielle Fong
"I meant determine as in "to find out or come to a decision about by investigation, reasoning, or calculation." I didn't say that it was necessarily 100% accurate.
But the MBTI is not a horoscope. The INTP/INTJ slant here is way statistically significant. Obviously there's something there." - Danielle Fong
"It's a weird theory, but it is somewhat coherent. INTJ is very close to INTP, just not really for that reason. ENTP is the classic entrepreneur. INTP/INTJ is the classic hacker; there was a poll on here and nearly 60% of the people 662 people who voted were INTP/INTJ, whereas they're each around 2-3% in the ordinary population. 10% of the rest were ENTP. (http://news.ycombinator.com/it...) Basically, the Myers-Briggs type determines your preferences for particular cognitive functions. The four letter indicator is like an extreme Huffman coding of those preferences: Your information-gathering, perceiving function (that is, input.) This can be either i(N)tuitive or (S)ensing. Roughly, a sensing person trusts their eyes, an intuitive person trust their subconscious and conscious cognitive models. Your decision-making, judging function (that is, output.) This can be either (T)hinking or (F)eeling. Roughly, the thinking person is at ease when they can make a decision supported by..." - Danielle Fong
"Cool.
I tested it out on a few articles/blogs that I've had.
Typealyzer pretty well guesses how I felt when I write things. INTP (my essays), INFP (private journal), ENTP (some posts on entrepreneurship), ENTJ (my startup's site)." - Danielle Fong
"I'm not sure about the science behind this, but those at real climate have addressed some of the issues here, for example: http://www.realclimate.org/ind...... Carbon emissions are not a problem because in a few years genetic engineers will develop “carbon-eating trees” that will sequester carbon in soils. Ah, the famed Dyson vision thing, this is what we came for. The seasonal cycle in atmospheric CO2 shows that the lifetime of a CO2 molecule in the air before it is exchanged with another in the land biosphere is about 12 years. Therefore if the trees could simply be persuaded to drop diamonds instead of leaves, repairing the damage to the atmosphere could be fast, I suppose. The problem here, unrecognized by Dyson, is that the business-as-usual he’s defending would release almost as much carbon to the air by the end of the century as the entire reservoir of carbon stored on land, in living things and in soils combined. The land carbon reservoir would have..." - Danielle Fong
"Yes. Think of the probability you'd need to have before you could 'stop worrying about things.' You have to think that it were 99% likely that 'the singularity' would show up in 20, or 50 years!" - Danielle Fong
"Perhaps a tech scholarship is the wrong tool in this situation? What would it, invested in a corresponding number of xo's, or in a technology teachers program, give you instead?" - Danielle Fong
"Well, there still is an unspecific and vague line between 'quantum' and 'classical' objects, entanglement is hard to understand and there isn't even a metric for more than simplest cases, and quantum systems appear to evolve in ways which classical computers cannot (it is believed) even approximate quickly enough. So it's likely that there's some fundamental complexity there..." - Danielle Fong
"The Higgs field creates mass out of the quantum vacuum too, in the form of virtual Higgs bosons. So if the LHC confirms that the Higgs exists, it will mean all reality is virtual."
Oh god. This is what I get for reading new scientist... - Danielle Fong
"You'd also have to reduce qualified investor laws.
And honestly, reducing taxes even further in this crises doesn't strike me as a reasonable way to handle a global credit crunch..." - Danielle Fong
"Human musicians and composers can riff off a single rhythm or melody and produce something wonderful the very first time. Engineers can visualize a solution, implement it, and have it basically work, with only surface elements changing. Artists can have a vision of what they want to achieve in their minds and cast it out, bit by bit, ever remaining the work they intended it. Sure, each incorporate many patterns already learned and practiced and processed. But computers are a long, long way from even doing that. This is a very different type of creativity." - Danielle Fong
"That's hilarious. The list of movies that are hard to classify reads like a list of my favorites...
[Like ]“Napoleon Dynamite” — culturally or politically polarizing and hard to classify, including “I Heart Huckabees,” “Lost in Translation,” “Fahrenheit 9/11,” “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou,” “Kill Bill: Volume 1” and “Sideways.”" - Danielle Fong
"Well, there is one way around that; let congress invest in VC's with historically high returns, but don't let them place the onerous restrictions on the money that usually surrounds public funds (labor laws, oversight, documentation through the ying-yang), instead merely restricting to an area of investment." - Danielle Fong
