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Setup Work

Make a list of competitive/alternative services: See competitors.md file
Set up Google News alerts for "side project marketing" and "startup marketing".
Make list of blogs, subscribe to RSS feeds in Feedbin:
- Startup marketing blogs
- Side project blogs
- Small business marketing blogs
- Chicago small business/startup bloggers
Come up with a name and domain name

Who pays when startup employees keep their equity?

JD Maturen, 2016/07/05, San Francisco, CA

As has been much discussed, stock options as used today are not a practical or reliable way of compensating employees of fast growing startups. With an often high strike price, a large tax burden on execution due to AMT, and a 90 day execution window after leaving the company many share options are left unexecuted.

There have been a variety of proposed modifications to how equity is distributed to address these issues for individual employees. However, there hasn't been much discussion of how these modifications will change overall ownership dynamics of startups. In this post we'll dive into the situation as it stands today where there is very near 100% equity loss when employees leave companies pre-exit and then we'll look at what would happen if there were instead a 0% loss rate.

What we'll see is that employees gain nearly 3-fold, while both founders and investors – particularly early investors – get dilute

How to link Apache Spark 1.6.0 with IPython notebook (Mac OS X)

Tested with

Python 2.7, OS X 10.11.3 El Capitan, Apache Spark 1.6.0 & Hadoop 2.6

Download Apache Spark & Build it

Download Apache Spark and build it or download the pre-built version.

Download Instant Client:

instantclient-basic-macos.x64-11.2.0.4.0.zip
instantclient-sdk-macos.x64-11.2.0.4.0.zip
instantclient-sqlplus-macos.x64-11.2.0.4.0.zip

Unzip and move to /opt
Create symlink

	// Modified from @mutsuda's https://medium.com/@mutsuda/create-an-ios-widget-showing-google-spreadsheets-data-856767a9447e
	// by @levelsio

	// HOW TO
	// 1) Make a Google Sheet, we'll pull the first cell e.g. A1
	// 2) Publish your Google Sheet, File -> Publish To Web
	// 3) Copy the SHEET_ID in the URL, put it in here below:
	const endpoint = "https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/SHEET_ID/1/public/full?alt=json"
	// 4) Install Scriptable @ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scriptable/id1405459188
	// 5) Copy this entire script in to Scriptable (tip: you can send it to your iPhone via Whatsapp/Messenger/Telegram etc)

	import sys
	import os
	import time
	from watchdog.observers import Observer
	from watchdog.events import FileModifiedEvent, FileCreatedEvent
	import boto3
	import mimetypes
	from botocore.exceptions import ClientError

	# Create an S3 client

	'''This script goes along the blog post
	"Building powerful image classification models using very little data"
	from blog.keras.io.
	It uses data that can be downloaded at:
	https://www.kaggle.com/c/dogs-vs-cats/data
	In our setup, we:
	- created a data/ folder
	- created train/ and validation/ subfolders inside data/
	- created cats/ and dogs/ subfolders inside train/ and validation/
	- put the cat pictures index 0-999 in data/train/cats

	# You don't need Fog in Ruby or some other library to upload to S3 -- shell works perfectly fine
	# This is how I upload my new Sol Trader builds (http://soltrader.net)
	# Based on a modified script from here: http://tmont.com/blargh/2014/1/uploading-to-s3-in-bash

	S3KEY="my aws key"
	S3SECRET="my aws secret" # pass these in

	function putS3
	{
	path=$1

	var active = false;

	function changeRefer(details) {
	if (!active) return;

	for (var i = 0; i < details.requestHeaders.length; ++i) {
	if (details.requestHeaders[i].name === 'Referer') {
	details.requestHeaders[i].value = 'http://www.google.com/';
	break;
	}