This is awesome. I'd love to see Wesleyan (or another college do this)

Thanks for the reply. I think the advantage would be that this would be a way to build a relationship with investors before you're ready to raise money, while AngelList seems to focus on connecting entrepreneurs and investors once they are already raising money. It also would provide a venue for investors to broadcast the needs of their current portfolio, which AL doesn't seem to do.

Does that make sense?

Perhaps the most pertinent to startup life: "“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”

Perhaps in the fantasy in our heads. But in real life, pirates are desperate people, usually repeatedly risking their lives in order to stay alive. In comparison, all the people I know in the navy absolutely love it - they like the life, they absolutely love the travelling from port to port, cameraderie, high tech playtoys, so on and so forth.

I think he meant it more in the context of olden times, where neither pirates nor navy had "high tech playtoys" and piracy was a little more common than today

Also the distinction between navies and pirates was a lot less clearly defined than it is now.

Both John Paul Jones and Sir Walter Raleigh were regarded as pirates by their adversaries and as naval heroes at home.

And those two would be considered among the least piratic! The English Crown granted licenses that gave commercial vessels the rights to any plunder from Spanish ships and settlements. It was effectively a loose mercenary affiliation. Deal: We empower you to commit legally sanctioned piracy. In return you make life difficult for our enemies and cut us in on the proceeds. Soldiers in war were never as restrained as period movies would have us believe, so imagine being boarded or invaded by a desperate privateer crew with not even the semblance of honor and soldierly gallantry to moderate their behavior.

Ahem. Back to Steve.

I think it's allowed in the circumstances:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Pirate_Flag.txt

I'm really digging that quote. I never thought about the paths I have chosen away from corporate life (assuming that is what he is referring to by "navy") to be fun, just that they were more interesting. In the end, I like to think that it is about fun.

EchoSign is pretty awesome - we've used it extensively and it speeds of contracts, legal stuff, etc immensely. I hope Adobe doesn't mess it up.

Funny that I should read about this on Facebook, then try to post it on HN. Way too close to home.

Yes - check out www.liquidspace.com . Not sure if they have coverage in Amsterdam yet, however.

Read about a similar service yesterday - loosecubes.com. Not sure if they have meeting spaces or not, but TechCrunch called them the Airbnb for workspaces and they are in Amsterdam. Might be worth checking out.

Thanks! Looks interesting. However, it looks like it's only an iPhone app? There's no web-version of that, right?

Time spent does not always equal output. Some of the best startup founders in the world can do more in a day than another startup founder can do in a week. It's all about what they produce, not how they produce it.

If your partner meets or exceeds your goals of what should be created, then you shouldn't worry. However, if he is truly slowing things down, then that's a problem that needs to be explored further.