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"Thanks Manu. We're working on a strategy to deploy into India." - David Ulevitch

nice post supporting opendns - David Ulevitch

"We will continue to innovate. :-)" - David Ulevitch

"Fred, you forgot to mention that in HR transactions there is a piece more important than the specific deal terms, and that's for both sides to have very candid heart-to-heart's about what the both sides expectations are in terms of roles, responsibilities, time commitments, etc. In an HR transaction, by definition, it's all about the people. :-)" - David Ulevitch

"It happens. Sometimes it works beautifully where skills and weaknesses are complemented perfectly, other times it's a disaster of emotionally epic proportions. In other words, setting expectations and being very explicit is even more important in an HR transaction. :-)" - David Ulevitch

"That's a called a merger." - David Ulevitch

"I agree with just about everything you write here. And I've felt this way (about DNS being a strategically important piece of infrastructure) since I started my first DNS company about eight years ago. :-)" - David Ulevitch

"All depends on where you're located..." - David Ulevitch

"Similar to Hyperbolic Discounting -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...... And Fred, Ed works at Lokku -- http://www.lokku.com" - David Ulevitch

"The real metric I'm curious about is how many more emails requesting meetings did you receive yesterday than you would normally? :-)" - David Ulevitch

"This place is just really really good. I used to only eat at Zushi Puzzle and now I frequent Yuzu often. The fish is top notch and the preparation is great. This is also the only sushi place I've…" - David Ulevitch

A great anti-spam service write-up. - David Ulevitch

"Ironically, I grab RSS feeds of keywords from search.twitter.com and read them in Google Reader. I find that it's impossible to keep up with the stream of tweets from the people I follow." - David Ulevitch

"Yeah, we fixed it Mr. Anonymous. :-) Sorry I forgot to update this thread, it's actually something that's usually easy for me since they use Disqus, but I missed this one. Please give it a try and let me know. Traceroutes always helpful. :-)" - David Ulevitch

"Ms. Ricketts -- This was a series B, not A." - David Ulevitch

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Interesting... - David Ulevitch

"This is rough!" - David Ulevitch

absurd and crazy gene name problem due to excel - David Ulevitch

"I want this. No, I need this. Also, Friday? Sunday? Why are the other companies named off days of the week?" - David Ulevitch

"What more can you ask for from a neighborhood bar? The food has drastically improved over the last year, lots of good cheap beer, and a few decent beers. The staff and bartenders are great and they…" - David Ulevitch

"Companies need access to credit or palatable lending terms in order to grow and scale resources quickly. And VC-backed companies do need exits... not to be sustainable, but to sustain the environment that you and I work in. You would be forced to transition your model dramatically if faced with a situation in 10 years where many of your portfolio companies are growing organically, modestly profitable, and giving you the equivalent of quarterly dividends. That doesn't work in the VC world. Go ask Sequoia how much fun it was to hold on to Rackspace.com for all those years, long long after that fund closed but before they finally IPO'd. Then again, I also believe it's essentially impossible for a 500mm VC fund to ever make a reasonable return. Even the principal is difficult to pay back. A 50mm VC fund has a much higher chance of delivering substantial returns, ironically." - David Ulevitch

"I got screwed just going to Canada on my data plan. Screw AT&T" - David Ulevitch

"If you expect a surge of new entrepreneurs to take up the slack then a lot of things need to be fixed. I won't even go into the lack of exit market. For those building lifestyle companies with 5-50 employees they will still need access to credit and flexible lending terms. That is dead right now. As for VC backed startups, there is zero exit market right now. There is no M and there is no IPO activity. That's not going to change for at least 18 months, if not longer." - David Ulevitch

"Wow, and I didn't even look at your "gadget." I have that device and it's awesome. It actually supports OpenDNS out of the box. They were one of our early hardware partners..." - David Ulevitch

"I've always found NewEgg to have fantastic support. And UPS, too, for that matter. They aren't flawless, but the customer service has always been far above my typically high expectations." - David Ulevitch

"Where are you located? send me an email to david at opendns dot com" - David Ulevitch

"Just switch to GraphicsMagick -- It's dramatically faster: http://www.kitchensoap.com/2008...... and see the comments there, too." - David Ulevitch

"This is freakin' brilliant." - David Ulevitch

The stakes are a bit higher than other advertising when you're making it easier to install 3rd party software. - Steve Weis