15:[[1406091,{"by":"cwan","descendants":24,"id":1406091,"kids":[1406504,1407004,1406922,1406292,1406398,1406726,1406853,1406339,1407132],"score":60,"time":1275699903,"title":"How Soros Broke the Pound","type":"story","url":"http://www.theatlantic.com/business/print/2010/06/go-for-the-jugular/57696/"}],[792796,{"by":"vaksel","descendants":10,"id":792796,"kids":[792821,792958,792963,792994,793054,792854,792822,792851,793096],"score":39,"time":1251522636,"title":"Angel Investor Chris Sacca To Launch $5 million Early Stage Venture Fund","type":"story","url":"http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/28/angel-investor-chris-sacca-to-launch-5-million-early-stage-venture-fund/"}],[668708,{"by":"pmichaud","descendants":7,"id":668708,"kids":[668766,668797,668775,669433,668834,668978,668841],"score":5,"text":"My company helps tech startups reach the prototype phase so they can validate their market and begin iterating. We have worked with a couple \"green\" startups, but we have no way of generating those leads specifically.

We'd like to focus more on startups that help in some way, like sustainably providing services to the poor, or improving the environment, for example.

If you were looking for these kinds of startups, where would you look?","time":1245677686,"title":"Ask HN: Where to find socially conscious Startups?","type":"story","url":""}],[643286,{"by":"dan_sim","descendants":2,"id":643286,"kids":[643351,643363],"score":4,"text":"We want to use a pay-as-you-use model for our project monitoring service (under heavy redevelopment for now) and we want to know what you think about it.

In short, you pay a monthly flat-rate for every user of your team (ex : 10$/user). If you have 2 users, it costs you 20$/month, 3 users = 30$/month and so on.

I already wrote about it here : http://bit.ly/payauu","time":1244213978,"title":"Ask HN : What do you think of the pay-as-you-use model","type":"story","url":""}],[597914,{"by":"_pius","descendants":8,"id":597914,"kids":[598030,598696,598323,597991],"score":10,"text":"","time":1241704680,"title":"Business Plan Competitions","type":"story","url":"http://steveblank.com/2009/05/07/business-plan-competitions-2/"}],[595515,{"by":"paulsb","descendants":33,"id":595515,"kids":[595644,595648,595885,595714,595723,596059,595660,596299,595594],"score":22,"time":1241605340,"title":"Software jobs, PhDs and over-qualification","type":"story","url":"http://semanticlifescience.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/software-jobs-phds-and-over-qualification/"}],[584572,{"by":"winanga","descendants":29,"id":584572,"kids":[584647,585424,584763,584798,585099,585039,585380,586099,584914],"score":80,"text":"","time":1240979287,"title":"American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all","type":"story","url":"http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/american-excess--a-wall-street-trader-tells-all-1674614.html"}],[575792,{"by":"anonymity","descendants":16,"id":575792,"kids":[575806,575926,575875,575993,576172,575990,575920,575996,576086,576083,576071,576229,576138],"score":23,"text":"$16","time":1240500838,"title":"Ask HN: What to do when you lose faith on a project?","type":"story","url":""}],[570893,{"by":"jseliger","descendants":31,"id":570893,"kids":[571054,571489,570969,571154,571558,571228,572357,571051,571031,571053,570939],"score":67,"text":"","time":1240242983,"title":"Why it is so hard to stay focused these days—and what to do about it","type":"story","url":"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124018463826033223.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"}],[566762,{"by":"danw","descendants":9,"id":566762,"kids":[567019,567295,567093,567322,567351,567420,567180,567096,567356,567147],"score":14,"text":"","time":1239970852,"title":"Stay in the UK or Go West?","type":"story","url":"http://blog.huddle.net/go-west"}],[566858,{"by":"1SockChuck","descendants":2,"id":566858,"kids":[566933,566890],"score":11,"text":"","time":1239974870,"title":"Inside Facebook's Data Center","type":"story","url":"http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/04/17/a-look-inside-facebooks-data-center/"}],[561176,{"by":"swombat","descendants":31,"id":561176,"kids":[561245,561288,561178,561300,561476,561625,561196,562227,561634,561532,563412,561240,561385,561492,561235,562698,563114],"score":61,"text":"","time":1239696920,"title":"The real reason why developers are awkward","type":"story","url":"http://trogger.com/discussions/the-real-reason-why-developers-are-awkward"}],[544448,{"by":"grinich","descendants":9,"id":544448,"kids":[544459,544480,544630,544677,544653],"score":11,"text":"Particularly web stuff, but I'd be interested in hearing about hardware/desktop software, etc.

Were there any unexpected costs?","time":1238728971,"title":"Ask HN: Real costs associated with a startup?","type":"story","url":""}],[541853,{"by":"jemmons","dead":true,"descendants":13,"id":541853,"kids":[541905,541937,541974,541978,541908,541993,541909],"score":53,"text":"...please review the submission guidelines definition of \"on-topic\" (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

  If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer \n  might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual    \n  curiosity.

","time":1238596218,"title":"Before you submit that April 1st link...","type":"story","url":""}],[541510,{"by":"azharcs","dead":true,"descendants":5,"id":541510,"kids":[541631,541717,541567,541718,541551],"score":10,"time":1238570173,"title":"Google Romance","type":"story","url":"http://www.google.com/romance/"}]]

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