| 1. | | The Long Grind Before You Become an Overnight Success (viniciusvacanti.com) |
| 365 points by inmygarage on Sept 12, 2011 | 80 comments |
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| 2. | | PostgreSQL 9.1 released (postgresql.org) |
| 284 points by wulczer on Sept 12, 2011 | 45 comments |
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| 3. | | LucasFilm Tells Darth Vader that Return of the Jedi Hasn’t Made a Profit (slashfilm.com) |
| 242 points by thinker on Sept 12, 2011 | 82 comments |
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| 4. | | Kendo UI - a framework for modern HTML UI (kendoui.com) |
| 201 points by fbnt on Sept 12, 2011 | 89 comments |
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| 5. | | MongoDB 2.0 Released (mongodb.org) |
| 215 points by meghan on Sept 12, 2011 | 76 comments |
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| 6. | | Rule #1 for beta invites: remind me what you do (scottkle.in) |
| 185 points by scootklein on Sept 12, 2011 | 21 comments |
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| 7. | | Obama's job aid plan - $10,000 to $13,000 in assistance for entrepreneurship (time.com) |
| 172 points by GBond on Sept 12, 2011 | 167 comments |
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| 8. | | One-electron universe (wikipedia.org) |
| 169 points by ColinWright on Sept 12, 2011 | 100 comments |
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| 9. | | Google Bought Me: The First Two Days (falconindy.com) |
| 153 points by keyist on Sept 12, 2011 | 29 comments |
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| 10. | | A curated catalog of iOS frameworks (iosframeworks.com) |
| 149 points by danielh on Sept 12, 2011 | 44 comments |
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| 11. | | 80% of People Quietly Despise Their Lives (howtosplitanatom.com) |
| 141 points by wavephorm on Sept 12, 2011 | 87 comments |
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| 12. | | Nerdy Day Trips (nerdydaytrips.com) |
| 137 points by jgrahamc on Sept 12, 2011 | 30 comments |
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| 13. | | Balsamiq : Salary Policy (balsamiq.com) |
| 122 points by pirate_is_back on Sept 12, 2011 | 134 comments |
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| 14. | | Arrington now officially out (techcrunch.com) |
| 119 points by hunterowens on Sept 12, 2011 | 58 comments |
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| 15. | | Posterous Swaps Blog Platform for Social Network (mashable.com) |
| 105 points by bamazizi on Sept 12, 2011 | 29 comments |
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| 16. | | EVE Online Investment Scam Revealed (phaserinc.com) |
| 97 points by gregtudor on Sept 12, 2011 | 62 comments |
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| 17. | | TestFlight SDK Released (testflightapp.com) |
| 95 points by dmpatierno on Sept 12, 2011 | 17 comments |
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| 18. | | TodoMVC - A common demo application for popular JavaScript MVC frameworks (github.com/addyosmani) |
| 91 points by brianshumate on Sept 12, 2011 | 10 comments |
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| 19. | | Are You Building The Right Product? (techcrunch.com) |
| 87 points by SmilingRob on Sept 12, 2011 | 16 comments |
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| 20. | | Caml Trading: Experiences in Functional Programming on Wall Street (janestreetcapital.com) |
| 85 points by frr149 on Sept 12, 2011 | 24 comments |
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| 21. | | 10gen raises $20m for MongoDB (techcrunch.com) |
| 94 points by nosh on Sept 12, 2011 | 23 comments |
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| 22. | | Pandas 0.4 (Python data analysis library) released (sourceforge.net) |
| 84 points by wesm on Sept 12, 2011 | 11 comments |
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| 24. | | YC Office Hours with PG and Harj (ustream.tv) |
| 78 points by fbuilesv on Sept 12, 2011 | 19 comments |
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| 25. | | CSS: Taking control of the cascade (37signals.com) |
| 77 points by joshuacc on Sept 12, 2011 | 20 comments |
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| 26. | | The Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerbergs of the future (nymag.com) |
| 76 points by emilepetrone on Sept 12, 2011 | 15 comments |
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| 27. | | Saipan claims ComputerLand founder owes taxes (yahoo.com) |
| 76 points by vipivip on Sept 12, 2011 | 49 comments |
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| 28. | | Noca - Payments Simplified (noca.com) |
| 75 points by zengr on Sept 12, 2011 | 73 comments |
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| 29. | | HTML5 compatibility on mobile and tablet browsers (mobilehtml5.org) |
| 73 points by anandiyer on Sept 12, 2011 | 13 comments |
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| 30. | | YC Office Hours at TC Disrupt [Live] (techcrunch.com) |
| 73 points by tilt on Sept 12, 2011 | 43 comments |
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At one extreme: giving your counsel veto power over what contracts you sign, and allowing them to bill time ping-ponging contracts until prospects give up.
At the other extreme: just signing everything and saying "fucking sue me" when things go sideways.
You should be somewhere in the middle. Contracts more often than not have provisions that are silly for you to accept verbatim. And, contracts more often than not have provisions you'd rather not accept, but that are baked into your prospect's own processes and not changeable.
No matter what you do, if you're being sensible, there are going to be tough decisions to make every once in awhile. If there aren't, you're probably doing something wrong. Like, for instance, signing tens of different contracts from giant companies without any legal review.