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When it comes to financing a brand-new startup, most founders find themselves stuck between the proverbial rock and hard place. While some lucky startups attract angel investors or have access to money from friends and family, the vast majority are on their own, at least at first. That’s why it’s so tempting to use credit cards to jumpstart your business.
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Tech Sometimes, you may just want to listen to your music in peace, without being interrupted by passers-by or visually intrusive ads, technology and surrounding events. That’s…
Airbnb's argument against tax doesn't fly — Special pleading is “a form of spurious argumentation,” Wikipedia explains, by “someone attempting to cite something as an exemption to a generally accepted rule, principle, etc.” — For example, San Francisco's Airbnb, the online …
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Isn’t it delightful how geek culture works? During my Christmas shopping last year, I stumbled into a favorite little pop culture shop in Little Collins Street in Melbourne which is well known for its comprehensive stocking of all things Lovecraftian. I was looking for some stocking fillers for the kids; instead I walked out with [...]
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FORTUNE -- Recent moves by both Google ( GOOG ) and the government seem to indicate that the search giant's future might be determined in Washington as much as in Mountain View.
Remember that scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail, where the cowardly one of the Knights of the Round Table, Sir Robin, is at a cross-roads, and in one way are signs to 'Certain Death 1 km' and every sign in that direction is 'Certain Death 1 km' while the opposite direction is the road to 'Camelot 54 km' back to safety and his friends. In real life there rarely is a situation of a genuine road to certain death. Even in some very dire military situations, like say when German General von Paulus found himself encricled by the red Soviet Army in the city of Stalingrad, that was not yet certain death.
