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February, 2007

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I’ll be at Stanford tomorrow for the startup job fair

I’m going to be recruiting for PBwiki at the startup job fair tomorrow (Thursday, 3/1) in White Plaza. If you’re around, or you know anyone at Stanford, let them know to stop by and say hi (look for the big PBwiki banner).
[Update]: Here are the positions we’re recruiting for:

Systems Software Engineer

Client Software Engineer

Principal Operations Engineer

And [...]

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Chicken Little and Kooks Who Don’t Know What They’re Talking About

This post is long, but there are emails and comments from a bunch of nuts that I pasted, so don’t be intimidated. Today I threw all pedagogical goals out the window. My goal is instead to have you shaking your head saying “what the hell?” by the end of this.
See, every single day I [...]

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PBwiki raises $2 million

Yesterday, we publicly announced the news. We’ve raised $2 million from Mohr-Davidow Ventures and a couple of private investors for PBwiki, and I wanted to let you all know here, too. If you wonder why sometimes I don’t post for a few days, this is pretty much why.

The first place it was announced (Valleywag, a [...]

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Friday Entrepreneurs: Aaron Foss, WingDipper

(I know, it’s Tuesday, but I was out of town over the weekend. Now back to Friday Entrepreneurs.)
Some of you imagine me as a knight in shining personal-finance armor, riding around on a white horse with golden hooves, correcting financial injustice and pointing out hypocrisy and inaccuracy in an unfair world. But sometimes I deign [...]

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$105 million in one day?

Found on Reddit a while ago:
Insider Filings – GATES WILLIAM H III (Microsoft)
16-Nov-06 1,000,000 MSFT Sale at $29.20 – $29.54 per share.
(Proceeds of about $29,370,000)
15-Nov-06 1,000,000 MSFT Sale at $29.11 – $29.35 per share.
(Proceeds of about $29,230,000)
14-Nov-06 1,000,000 MSFT Sale at $29.07 – $29.4 per share.
(Proceeds of about $29,235,000)
[...]
3-Aug-05 3,874,126 MSFT Sale at $26.92 – $27.37 per [...]

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How do you budget when you have irregular income?

A friend wrote me this email wondering how I budget on an irregular income. I have some suggestions, but before I write them up on here, I wanted to throw the question out and see what people think. How do you budget for irregular income (e.g., if you’re a student, consultant, etc)?
How do you budget [...]

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