I would say this advice primarily applies when your competitors are solid companies working hard on the same space. Maybe less so if you have reason to believe they're deceptive and/or trouble

- Support your good competitors, not the bad ones.

- I agree on supprting competitors in an early stage market, as long there is enough beers and pizzas for everybody. In a mature market, things are different, take your time and your ressources to support...your team and your customers.

The guidelines are also different for nonprofit and for-profit companies (and if your interns are getting college credit vs. not), so it definitely pays to check. FWIW we pay our fulltime interns, but there are circumstances when it's ok not to.

Yup - these are the DOL guidelines with the 6 criteria to see if internships can be unpaid http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm

I would love to hear Cindy Gallop of https://makelovenotporn.tv/ weigh in on this!

Unless you think about how few people actually manage their schedule this way, which is why this = actually helpful for a lot of people

very true - it only works if you put it into practice!

This is fascinating. Has anyone tried this with another journalist / publication?

You may want to revisit your history then - a woman wrote what is widely considered, by both men and women, to be the first computer program, an extremely complicated algorithm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace). During WWII, women were "recruited to do ballistics calculations and program computers. Around 1943-1945, these women "computers" used a Differential Analyzer in the basement of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering to speed up their calculations." In 1949, Grace Hopper was the first programmer of the Harvard Mark I, known as the "Mother of COBOL", and developed the first ever compiler for an electronic computer, known as A-0. In the late 1950s, orbital calculations for the United States' Explorer 1 satellite were solved by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's all-female "computers", many of whom were recruited out of high school.

While attitudes may not have done a 180, your inference that early women computer scientists were "not programming" and only transcribing is factually incorrect.

"The new campus is filled with beloved and familiar-looking restaurants, shops, banks, barber shops, and bike shares" --> anyone know how they decided which businesses got to open up shop inside?

I don't know if that's fair. Livefyre just announced something like 1 billion page views/month, so clearly someone must think they have a compelling value prop!

i'm just going based on the company descriptions, when I read LiveFyre's I thought "disqus" so, not very interesting to me, as it has been a solved problem for a while.

Where's the "self-driving car" start up? or the "Let's revolutionize higher education and put colleges out of business and save the world" start up?

all of these revolve around acquiring, engaging or making sense of web traffic. not very compelling if you ask me.

I would argue it's the most important - if you don't know whether or not people are sticking around, the total number of overall new users is somewhat meaningless

Agreed - it just takes a small amount of time now to start tracking, so in the future you'll have a clear idea of where you began and how far you've come.

I use my inbox as well, with heavy reliance on Boomerang to get stuff out of my sight until I'm ready to deal with it. Any other good inbox tools/hacks to recommend here?