What assets? The Washington Post real estate is not being sold. It's just the people, their pensions, and the brand that was purchased.

To show that he wasn't fooling around with side projects when he was still full time at YCombinator?

The journalist wouldn't have put it had it not been emphasized by his sources. And if they brought it up it's likely because Harj giving less attention to YC is a sensitive topic for the other partners at the firm.

I totally agree with the point about technical hiring

Not really :)

Hey Major_Grooves, that's a bug, IP geolocation gone wrong :( If you select United Kingdom you'll only get publicity opportunities related to the UK. let me know if I can do anything to help.

By the way what is your startup about? :)

haha - ok, that's quite a funny bug! ;)

My startup is a place where freelancers and small business owners can anonymously exchange data about when their business customers pay them vs agreed terms. I'm in closed beta and I haven't tried the whole "Show HN" thing yet. ;)

You can take a look here: https://www.satago.co.uk

I would be wanting to reach lots of UK business press as the whole late-payment problem is something that affects companies all over the country and is often in the press.

Anyway, I'll sign up and take a look. Thanks!

Cool, I tried to signup but needed an invite code:)

I think that satago would fit nicely into a few media themes like what people can do to beat the recession, the empowerment of small businesses, and crowdsourcing data.

Yep, tis' indeed a "closed" beta. ;)

If you want a peek there should have been a sign-up page to leave your email address to get access. But then you are in Dubai so maybe not so interesting for you...?

Indeed I should be of interest for all those topics. In fact I am funded so far by crowd-funding - I have 60 investors via www.seedrs.co.uk

Hi Egreg, I'm going to go ahead and say that yes it is. In the sense that every piece of content you share online with your name on it is publicity.

That includes that instagram photo of a great day at the beach, that blog post you wrote about reaching your 50th paid user, or a retweet of a hacker news article about lisp.

In each case you're saying look, that's me, that's what I do, and that's what I stand for.

It's called content marketing. And everyone is doing it if they're aware of it or not.

Agreed. And nothing wrong with it! (As long as you mean what you post.) So how is Publiseek different from HARO?

Hey Egreg, I've met Peter Shankman and love what he's done with HARO. However we're doing a few things differently.

First, it's global from day one. So we have a much lower volume of overall queries to start with. However we've already made connections in the UK, India, US, & Dubai (where we're based).

Second, opportunities are public and shared. This is a huge no no with HARO look at this link for example: http://www.publiseek.com/opportunity/seeking-new-stories-for...

Third: any content creator (not just reporters) can use it. That includes movie producers (product placements), event organizers (speaking opportunities), etc.

Also we're putting a bit more focus on design/branding. Hope this answers your question. Do you use HARO?

I signed up but I hardly use it. Mostly because I created a filter for the emails and rarely check them. There are great opportunities there.

But what are your thoughts on Ryan Holiday from American Apparel and what he said about media manipulation via HARO and other sources:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/07/18/how-this-g...

Tweeted you :)

Hey minimaxir, you're right that they're not. Founders are short on time and need to focus. So I'm illustrating a point that you can reliably get publicity within the time limit that you allocate for this activity. It doesn't need to be a hit or miss :)

Great. So First Round Capital is pushing idea that they stood with David against Goliath and won teaching a lesson to Big Co. Did the entrepreneurs see any of the money?

The way they describe the deal structure, my guess is yes.

The entrepreneurs held stock in TechForward, which sold its assets to a third party but kept the lawsuit. Total investment was only $5.7 million (per Crunchbase), but the lawsuit payout is $27 million. The investors put in more money (hundreds of thousands) at unknown terms, but my guess is that this means a modest number of millions for each of the two founders.

Depends upon liquidation preference, tranches, stock classes, etc.. We'll never know unless we are specifically told.

Sure. I'm assuming typical to somewhat-worse-than-typical terms. They could have gotten screwed, but there's no particular reason to think they did.

I was thinking the same thing. Without knowing whether the founders agreed with the Board decisions to a) share the models with Best Buy and b) pursue an ultimately ruinous legal claim, it's hard to know if First Round were part of the solution or part of the problem...

The way it's phrased makes it sound like the Board was the reluctant party, rather than the founders.

Why should they?

If the entrepreneurs risked their own cash and the possibility of losing the case, they should be entitled to the money. But they didn't, so they're not.

Equity.

Lack of SMS shouldn't be a problem. You can use two factor authentication with the app version.It's on that same page.

Yes but SMS are handy. BTW Just got both of them with a 7 hours delay.

You could both be right. Login with Facebook, buy with 1 click. And let the merchant know all kinds of information about you to show you the right products.