Compensation Structure for Early Companies

Just got this from planetvc today. Matt McCall who writes at VC Confidential recently posted a compensation structure for typical early stage companies. Matt stressed out that what he meant with ‘early’ is not start-up at bootstrap phase. At which, salaries are much lower, but equity ownerships are higher. I am a little surprised that [...]

Stock Market tomorrow (Mon 14, 08)

We all know that predicting stock market is a lesser-science than predicting the weather. I could be wrong, but here is my prediction for tomorrow. Top line (it’s not a bottom line if it is at the top!!), I predict that we are going to have a rally tomorrow, but a much smaller one that [...]

Richest potato peeler salesdude

MSNBC has a nice story on the a potato peeler salesman who has resides on Park Avenue. Simple old mantra at work: Step 1. Be good at what you are doing. Step 2. Repeat. Step 3. Profit.

REST and Python

As I mentioned here, recently I’ve been doing some research in REST. Specifically, I’ve been looking for ways to implement REST web services for some of our Python-based routines. The idea is to do it in a way that is describable in a WSDL, so that we can control that from a workflow engine in [...]

Need to find your real IP address ??

Are you in an internal network, and you forgot your external IP address ? It’s been several times that I needed to identify my external IP address. Each time I was able to find it out, and each time it would be some kind of a hassle. A friend of mine showed me this simple [...]