TimH

Are there any startups out there in Palo Alto or Mountain View that have spare work space they'd like to sublease?

I'm looking for some, and the 'AirBnB for office space' startups don't have local inventory. How would you find space?

I build a website called favstar.fm. Its purpose is to provide feedback on tweets - and easily show who is favoriting and retweeting your tweets.

This morning I woke up to discover a Japanese user has been using it as a canvas. Visit this tweet and click on the 'others' link next to retweets and you'll see a cool picture that they've put together by carefully setting up avatars for over 60 Twitter users, and then making them retweet a tweet in just the right order.

http://favstar.fm/t/30772880274886656

Has your webservice been used for something totally different than what you intended and produced a nice result?

While educating myself I've seen that startup lawyers sometimes invest in angel or series A rounds. I was wondering what people thought of this. To me it seems a little disadvantageous as it means your lawyer's interests are now aligned with the other investors, instead of remaining independent. As a founder, would you be second guessing advice given to you by your lawyer after the event, or would you trust that the advice they give continues to be the best for the company, even if 'best for the company' sometimes needs to be divergent from the best interests of the investors?

It seems there's a huge number of options out there for publishers now. I'm looking in to the possibilities for placing advertising on my site (which shows a variety of tweets).

Do you have any recommendations, or suggestions on what I should be aware of when looking for an ad provider?