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Little-known meant little talked about in HN.

Is there a way for an average person to buy stocks at IPO price?

Few years ago, I would have chosen AWS over GCE. Now, I am starting new project and need to reexamine which cloud provider to use. If you are starting new project in 2016, which cloud provider do you choose? AWS or GCE? They both seems to provide the services I need such as database, storage, scalability etc.

Correction: I meant to say Google Cloud Platform instead of GCE.

When you search for specific business, Google includes popular time for that business. Where does Google get this data from?

One of the Sam Altman's advice in his blog[1] was to "grant options that are exercisable for 10 years from the grant date, which should cover nearly all cases".

This is due to when employees leave companies, they only have 90 days to exercise their vested options and they don't have the money to cover the strike price.

Is there any company that took this advice and changed their employees grant option policy?

[1] http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity

For small service I am working on, I would like to let the customers register their own domain names. What is a good domain name registrar that provide an API for registering domain names?

What is a generic formula to calculate how much is your stock option worth when the company is acquired?

How much is the equity worth on the following scenarios?

Scenario #1 (everyone is fully vested)

  - Your equity is 1% with $0.10/share strike price (common stock)
  - Investors own 20% with $20M invested (preferred stock)
  - Founders own 70% (founder stock)
  - Employee own 9% (common stock)
  - The company is acquired for $30M.

Scenario #2 (everyone is fully vested)

  - Everything is same as above except the company is acuired for $50M

Scenario #3 (everyone is fully vested)

  - Everything is same as above except the company is acuired for $100M

Let me know if I am missing other data.