Interesting that in the spirit of the usual startup discussions here on Hacker News, no one has mentioned that this is/was a single founder company. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose_Corporation
indochino is crap. Speaking from experience. I've ordered from them online and visited their traveling tailor as well. Crap fabric, crap fitting, crap tailoring.
Guys please get yourself fitted by a professional. Dudes in Canada might want to visit Harry Rosen.
This is unfortunate. Yes the company maximized their IPO take. But at the end of the day the ones who got screwed were the retail investors who bought into the media hype. This will hurt tech IPOs in general.
The quality of posts that make it to #1 on ycombinator lately leave me unmotivated to check the site as frequently as I used to. As a result I work more, cry less and quit whining.
On a per sample basis it is very difficult to distinguish between signal and noise. So your lack of definition as to what 'per unit time' means leaves me very confused.
I should explain further. I started out with Dropbox and am almost at the limit. I don't have disposable income (startup founder). So I started looking for alternatives - that's when I discovered Skydrive.
PS. Have you tried Zumodrive - it's almost exactly like Dropbox.
This is a really good point. The importance of good written and oral communication skills is often downplayed but likely one of the most important in the workplace.
"But if big companies aren’t being built because of this small thinking, we’ll all suffer sooner or later. "
This assumes that SV has only web and software startups. Certain kinds of companies (biotech, telecom, etc.) do need VC, and these companies are built to IPO. That won't change.
Yes, if you want to do a web 2.0 startup, then the valley is the place to be. No doubt!
Although I then think of Flickr, Plenty of Fish, Club Penguin, etc. and realize that this is not necessarily true.
How many VC-backed companies actually do well enough for the founders to get rich? Not that many - you're better off bootstrapping and then flipping the co. for a $ amount that is in the few million. And I think the Valley is the worst place to bootstrap due to the high cost of living.
And don't get me started on the high cost of getting health insurance. You're better off in Toronto.