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Consider this a WAG because I don't know any of the people involved.
I assume that in the VCs world there are winners (high multiple return) and losers (not a high multiple return). While you may have attained profitability, in his mind you're actually a non-winner, and that is a continual cause of stress. To his peers he has probably been talking up the various angles for potential growth for your company for a long time, yet the desired growth has not been forthcoming. It looks and feels like failure within that peergroup (for their objectives), so a) that's where the reluctance, animosity, and faux-professional posturing came from in negotiations. Now he has to have a story for why the deal fell apart. That story is either that he believes you can grow the investment more going alone, or that you personally sunk it. Either way, it's on you and his pessimism is probably high. Not good, but then where else is he going to go with this?

I think of VCs as managers, and I'm usually of the opinion that the most likely solution to a bad manager is a new job, so I'm inclined to favor any path away from this guy. What path would be best?

Having a profitable company with 10+ employees is a pretty good position to be in if you want to launch something new. I'm inclined to recommend making full use of that opportunity, whether new equity from this VC is a possibility or not. Another concern, though, is that you don't want to risk the health of the company by diverting too much of the available cashflow, or by hurting their market positioning. So it seems to me that any pivot is going to have to be a soft one, or else you'll have to find a growth or new opportunity that really does seem like a sure bet.
So my recommendations are:
1) Swallow your well-justified bitterness. It just won't help you get through this. If you want to spread truth about this VCs character, do it after you have gotten out of the current stickiness, and even then I think some coded politeness can suffice.
2) Tell the VC that you're going to double-down on finding new growth opportunities. Lay it on thick, and check in more frequently to give him backing with his peers.
3) Assume that the VC will talk smack (widely) about you if ever challenged in any public context, and may be doing so anyway now that this deal exploded, so be proactive about working your relationships with his peers and your peer community. Consider this your ongoing side project as you...
4) Work on finding the right pivot for you and for the company. Consider this your top priority. If you find another startup that has a better opportunity that you can jump to, take it. But don't risk your current profitable status. Tipping into negative cashflow will endanger the whole situation but will also give the VC more ammunition in laying blame on you.
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Yes, I've read that businesses can set a limit. However, a low limit might discourage Groupon from running their deal.
Start with specification requirements, what CPU (power consumption, speed), mobo (size, features, weight), memory (size, speed), screen (resolution, toughness, size), etc.

Once you have a list of constraints (not necessarily specific, but bounded), think about how these will work as shock-proof, water-proof. Will it just be the case that is shock/water proof or will the components be as well.

The screen is probably the hardest bit to make rugged since being a tablet it will probably be a reasonable size and therefore easy to crack/scratch/break. So a large amount of focus should go here.

Just as a start
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The simplest way would be to contact a manufacturer in China that makes tablets and work out a deal where they put your brand name on their tablets. Alibaba.com may help you find sources for that. The downside is that you will likely have little to say about the specs of the tablet. Also, I've yet to see a Chinese Android tablet that has decent specs and provides a decent experience. Going further, I'm sure that some manufacturer would be willing to work with you on the design specs that you have, but this will likely cost you.

Another option is to start a business, raise capital (probably a relatively lot), and build up a team of engineers here. This would allow you to take a larger part in the design process, but will take longer and require more outside investment before you can even get a prototype out.

I would look at the options available on the market now for white labeling, and build off that.
Just so we're clear on what everybody's saying, that's a benefit of thorium reactors, not this traveling wave reactor. And it's mostly irrelevant, anyway; we have enough U-238 to run a huge number of TWRs for a very long time, so why worry about the relative uranium and thorium supplies?
Yeah we noticed the same thing...just awfully slow as far as I can tell
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cough I'm seeking an internship for the summer. 2 semesters away from a BS in CS. Just got my first 'fun' test app onto the iOS market, cloudedbox.com/supersoaker.html. I'm still working on the proof that I'm worthy, but I cannot tell you how much I'd like to experience the techniques and tribulations of software engineering with a company anywhere in North California. More about.me/cameronbriar uncough
That's interesting; because I think I recall something in the language of the safe harbor law where if a content hoster starts actively policing their own content, they can be held liable for anything that slips through their net.
I agree 100%. But if there were millions of people dying to fly, then the ultralight could be a very lucrative market. If you lived in the middle of nowhere, an airplane could be more practical than an SUV for commuting.

Instead, cars and commercial airlines are where Society Has Decided that their limits are. Everyone can understand paying $500 a month for a car, and everyone can understand paying $159 to sit in a chair and be levitated to Phoenix for the weekend. So that's where the land / air tradeoff currently is.

(Do I like this? Nope. I fly 100,000 miles a year and am willing to pay $10,000 to $20,000 to become a private pilot, with the expected benefit of saying "I'll rent a plane and fly us to Door County this weekend" to some girl I like. Economically sensible? Absolutely not. Hence, not very many people do it. Flying is magic. The general public is not ready to harness magic in the form of throttle, elevator, aileron, and rudder.)
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If you don't mind me asking, how many applications is that spread over?
I met Billy Bob Thornton in a bar in Minneapolis one night. I'd worked a long day and was walking back to my hotel room, when I looked over to my left and saw Billy Bob sitting at a bar with 2 or 3 other people. Well I went in and grabbed a seat right next to him, ordered some food (wish I hadn't, kind of rude) and eavesdropped on his conversation. They were talking about baby names of all things. I knew a joke about baby names, so I nonchalantly told my joke to a guy whom I later learned was Billy Bob's manager, who told Billy Bob that he had to hear my joke. Billy Bob turned toward me with the biggest grin I've ever seen and all I could think was "Don't screw up. He won an Academy Award!" I somehow nailed my joke and Billy Bob shook my hand as he introduced himself, "I'm Billy." I must have said something boring afterwards because Billy politely returned to his previous conversation. That was ok by me, Billy made my week just sharing a moment of his time and being a nice guy. Glad I met him instead of your celebrity chef neighbor.
It looks like a rebranded OpenVBX which runs off of Twilio. If anyone has an account, it'd be easy to check... search for an available number in TellFi for a given area code and also do the same search in Twilio. If you find the same number in both places, there's your answer.
Well, I would have started at CES - there a re a ton of ODM tablet guys from China at CES.

Look at this post, and get in touch with this guy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840896

I would take his recommendations regarding any of the other components of your device, like the case, you might be looking to make.

Any direction you take is going to take $$ though, as you will need to pay for tooling, etc.

Do you already have capital?

I too am looking at getting a tablet made - but for medical purposes.
I'll admit that I expected it to be terrible, but watching the clips I'm starting to feel a glimmer of hope.
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> When I first read it, I got shivers: "this book is about google!"

If you read it again today, you would think it's about Apple.
Maybe it's a guard against common scraping?
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There are loads of countries that already have weapons, and want power reactors -- but the technology for working with uranium is already in place, and fuel costs are so small, so there hasn't been much incentive to work on thorium reactors unless you're going for something dramatically better, like LFTRs. Which China recently announced that they were doing, by the way.
Yup, they pushed to get the release timed for effect ;)
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> - Build apps fast and be agile; don't focus on one app for months on end without launching. MVP and get real-world feedback.

In general I believe the whole lean/MVP thing, but I wonder about its applicability in the app store.

Launching without a fully baked product may hamstring you for a while if you get bad reviews/ratings upfront. Also, by having a great product from the start, you may be able to get ranked higher because you get free exposure in the "new" lists. If you have a barebones product, aren't you essentially wasting the free exposure you get for being a new app (that you won't get when you update)?
Man, after I saw that Rearden scene I felt SO much better.
It is representative of the rest of the movie.
Sure, maybe it's not bad in Brazil, but there are many places where it's not super good.

In Syria and Jordan, it goes off for about 3 hours every two weeks, or something like that (not scheduled, just randomly). I think the same is true for Egypt. I've heard the same about India. In fact, I've heard from a trusted person that computer/software offices in India have their own backup power generators. I can only assume the same applies to hotels and factories.
I agree, and hence the unpopularity of being a private pilot. When you drive a car, the consequences and required training are minimal. If you don't know where you are, you follow the signs to the gas station and ask for directions. If you run out of gas, you put your hood up and wait for someone to stop and give you gas. The net intelligence required is about zero. Hence, the popularity.

When flying, not only are you responsible for getting yourself where you want to go, you are also responsible for not running out of fuel and crashing onto a family of four having a nice barbecue. This is beyond the risk that most people are willing to take. Learning about VORs and DMEs and NDBs and GPSes are not worth the ability to travel across the country 2x to 4x faster than driving, especially when the distances people want to cover are in th 2-6 hour range. 6 hours is not much time. Neither is 3h time. So why not drive the same vehicle you use every day to get to work? There is no risk involved and what are you going to do with the 3 hours flying you own plane got you? Drink beer? Meh. Much better than not accidentally murdering anyone.

(Not saying I'm happy with this, but it's the reality. If you want to fly an airplane, You Are Weird. I Am Weird, but I can't expect everyone else to be weird...)
run one of the hottest bars in Ibiza

Most of the actors that go to the oscars

Sorry, but isn't it a bit of a stretch to compare "running a bar on Ibiza" to "running for the oscars"?

Yes, chatting up Natalie Portman may be considered "hard work" by some, but then again...

John Cusack gets drunk at one of the clubs he gets into for free he'll be all over the tabloids and he won't get that next role, so he can't do it.

What a cruel world where a poor hollywood millionaire can't even get drunk in public.
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Based on that clip, it appears to be headed straight for DVD.

To the actors' credit, they do not seem to be as grotesquely stilted as in the book. It must have been the acting challenge of a lifetime!
Ouch.

I can provide no advice based on experience but since the acquisition offer has been revoked, I would suggest for next time to do the following calculus:

In one year, if I agree to his terms, will I /really/ be that much worse off? Will I be so poor?

If not, agree with a stipulation that it is to be completed within X timeframe otherwise they get the old share.

If so, be prepared to lose it all.

9/10 times, you're usually better off capitulating and making sure all your friends know NOT to deal with this guy.

Anyway, good luck.
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I like it...thanks! I was definitely looking for a resource like that
Assuming such a time capsule is feasible, I'd save the locations and contents of all other known time capsules.

eg, http://www.paperinternet.org

The biggest problem with time capsules is that people forget where the damned things are.
I would think the components should be water/shock resistant.

It seems like gorilla glass might work for the screen.
Look at this from the perspective of Google Apps corporate users. Imagine that the IT intern has just completed the corporate cafeteria's lunch menu system, and it's time to deploy it. While it's then least significant application the IT department manages, there's still a high fixed labor cost for infrastructure roll-out and management. The DBA must provision instances across dev, QA, and production environments. Onto which servers will the application be deployed? Must they be procured? Even if the lunch menu app is deployed on a VM instance, that OS image still requires security patches and other upgrades. The cost of deploying the intern's work likely exceeds his/her salary for the summer.

With SQL on AppEngine, corporate developers can build apps like this without learning how to use NoSQL for persistence. Even if GAE's SQL doesn't allow scale-out sufficient for SaaS vendors and such, it will fill an important niche in Google's apparent goal of moving corps onto their cloud. As another commenter here suggested, the bar for perf/scale in many cases may be no higher than that provided by a MSAccess DB hosted on a Windows fileshare.
I could easily see it becoming BigCo policy to only use hardware with Enterprise Security Robustness(tm), if only as an ass-covering move.
If you want to be given credit for some open source software, require it in the license. Otherwise you have no grounds to complain.
A company that you will devote 3 months to ?
"Well, I've created the operating system that runs about every 5th smartphone". "Well, and some other things".
Wow, congrats to the InPulse team!
I read it in Instapaper, though you have to hit Print first, then add it to Instapaper. Still, worth it :)
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Amazing that 15 people are alleged - that is a lot of people to have in synchronicity with so much at stake.

Thankfully no one was hurt -
I don't have funding right now... we are building a software prototype on a normal android tablet and then pitch vcs to get money for the hardware... but we want to have an idea what we're getting into and if it's going to be feasible/economically viable.
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The three options you suggested are pretty much the only three options available aside from quitting the company, aren't they?
Fog Creek Software is hiring interns in NYC. $5000/month plus free housing and metrocard and lunch.

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Its surprisingly hard to effect revenge even when its right in front of you and easy to reach.
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i like the idea of the white label a lot... the main spec that is crucial is that it is rugged/shock proof/water proof... i.e. mounted on a jeep in the dessert or on a small boat.
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Exactly, while it might help others to expose the VC, you would be putting your own reputation at risk.

When seeking revenge, bring two shovels and all that.
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I don't have any advice but it'd be great if you shared your 20/20 hindsight so other founders can avoid such scenarios and VC.
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I worked in record stores for a couple of years a long time ago, and we'd have musicians come in to make appearances or shop for music or whatever.

One of the more interesting visits was Winger, a mid-range hair metal band of the era. They were extremely polite, very well informed about the business of their tour when I talked with them, and they bought a good number of 50s era jazz cds to listen to in their bus.
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haha, When I was new to IT in Silicon Valley in 1997, we bought a bunch of clone servers from Colfax International - dual pentium II something-or-others, based on Super Micro mobos.

We were running Windows NT with SQL Server as well as Linux (the founders of Linux Care, Dave Sifry and Art Tide set them up - we were doing EDI with sun, and were one of the first companies to use XML for the docs, which were manufacturing orders for copies of Sun OS -- we physically manufactured all their software (cd, manuals, boxes etc, and dropped shipped them to the customer)

Anyway - after a few months we were having HORRID problems with the colfax boxes always locking up. They were about 12 or 14,000 bucks each at the time - which was insanely expensive for what we were getting. I think they had like a gig or ram or something small.

We also had AS/400s which were many more times that, but that was for the JDE ERP system...

We tried to work through the problems with Colfax, and finally called a meeting with them.

They came in and my manager asks, "Colfax.... Colfax International. Where are your offices?"

CI: "Sunnyvale."

US: "So, any other offices"

CI: "Nope - we are all based in the US"

US: "I see, any international customers?"

CI: "Nope, all in the bay area"

US: "So why do you call yourselves "international""

CI: "...."

--- Anyway, we ended up scrapping the boxes as high end IT workstations and bought name brand systems.

Last time I bought clone HW. We even had some of the first VA Linux and Penguin systems -- when they were barely seen as anything but clones...
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Because he doesn't want submissions or comments, he wants saved posts, which is really different for me, at least, and I assume for most of us. I've submitted 8 posts (only one of which went front page) of which naturally I didn't upvote any, because I can't. I've upvoted 135 posts ... which is way more than I would have thought, actually. And I've made roughly a thousand comments, which I would estimate would be on maybe 500 posts (because I don't normally get into extended discussion, so I'm guessing I average out to maybe 2 comments a post) - and the posts I comment on are not necessarily those I upvote, because I usually forget that you can upvote posts unless I really like a post.
"Preventing the government from regulating the Internet" is not on offer by anyone. Existing government regulations give certain companies oligopoly power, whose rents they are using to finance (via Boehner) opposition to further regulations intended to reduce those rents. "limited government" is Orwellian language. Again, I don't doubt your sincerity; I question your understanding of the motives behind the appealing rhetoric you quote.
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The government and large defence companies certainly do care about ethics. It's just a different 'kind' of ethics than you would normally envision. Its more about your appearance to the general public, and your market than anything else. If the general public perceives your action an unethical, then it is, and it is detrimental to your company.

I've worked for several defence contractors, and each one is crazy about ethical training. Monthly online ethics training courses are mandatory. Any perception of wrongdoing is incredibly harmful when dealing with the federal government. Billion dollar contracts are won and lost based on those perceptions.
A purely mechanical wristwatch is a marvelous thing. I frequently use my phone to tell time, but when my Nexus One battery went dead on a long flight recently I was glad to have the spring-powered backup on my wrist.
Are you building a military app? If so, why not look at getting money from either Darpa grants, others in the defense industry or just selling/licensing the app to a defense contractor, such as Lockheed.

Otherwise - why be so concerned with the tablet.

When I was at lockheed, we used to buy Tough Books and mount them in pelican cases with other RFID reading hardware and sell them to the DOD for like 30K.
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Canadian ISPs have no plan for IPv6 deployment
I was very disappointed in my results:

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=17-AYllk3J2SRcIzHKpf...

Does this image have a resolution or a font problem?
He does have grounds to request it, especially since the license notes that he would appreciate it. And other people have the right to think Rovio should do it since showing some appreciation would be the non-dick thing to do.
Call your credit card company. They at least care if they lose your business. Have the flight payment refunded back to you and buy a new ticket. Then you won't be in standby anymore.
In your own experience, did the app need to be localized at the initial launch or did you see boosts in sales after localizing your app later on?
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And a variety of other Hollywood or other entertainment supserstars who are definitely not "on the clock" 24x7. A lot of entertainers don't need to kiss ass, and some don't care to.
We have about 50,000 companies hiring interns at http://www.internships.com - and it's FREE for employers to post positions and for students to search... Good luck to all!
Indeed. Ars Technica has been covering it in excellent depth. I'm just surprised it didn't happen earlier. From the onset, especially HBGary's reaction, it seemed the only way out was that Barr would be canned or step down.