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Media glare comes back
to burn Raleigh startup
News Observer [Raleigh,NC], by David Bracken
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Posted By:Fiesta del sol, 10/31/2012 5:47:24 AM
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| The CEO of a Raleigh startup that was written about in The News & Observer on Monday was visited by a city inspector on Tuesday who told him he was breaking city rules by operating the business out of his North Raleigh home. Justin Miller, whose company Deja Mi has released two smartphone apps since forming more than a year ago, said the zoning inspector informed him that he had 30 days to find another office or he would be cited for illegally operating a business with employees in a residential neighborhood.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
rasputin, 10/31/2012 5:53:37 AM (No. 8976129)
Seems to me the city is right. With 13 employees, he surely can afford to rent a place. The value of his neighbors' homes and the quality of their lifestyle should not be the lowest priority of this entrepreneur.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
pineledger, 10/31/2012 6:14:38 AM (No. 8976146)
Depends on the neighborhood, I think. They might rather have him than houses sitting vacant.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
nevernaught, 10/31/2012 6:21:58 AM (No. 8976153)
I agree... if you want to run a personal business from your home in a residential area, keep it personal. When you start hiring people to work in your home, then that does violate zoning laws.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
dulac, 10/31/2012 6:48:13 AM (No. 8976177)
The city is doing what it needs to do to protect homeowners' rights, safety and property values. Could be 13 drug lords or gun runners next time, but the legal precedent would be set. There are other ways Raleigh could support start-ups. Surely there are buildings in commercially zoned areas the city could buy (or partner with the private sector to buy) to create free or low-cost space for start-ups on a means-tested basis. Just because you're enterprising (and hooray to him for being so) doesn't mean you're entitled to break the law.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
distorted, 10/31/2012 8:25:05 AM (No. 8976325)
Sounds like my experience after a 1 1/2 page article in the Houston Chronicle on my home gardens brought the local property tax assessors to my gate the next day and a consequent doubling of my tax rate. Some acts of vanity do not go unpunished.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
rocket-j-squirrel, 10/31/2012 8:29:17 AM (No. 8976332)
It takes thirteen people to write to phone apps???
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
curious1, 10/31/2012 9:18:05 AM (No. 8976439)
This is the 21st century. They write phone apps but have to be in the same physical location? That's so last century, bricks and mortar thinking. He should let them telecommute, then the problem goes away.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Okie 52, 10/31/2012 9:42:50 AM (No. 8976495)
I am astounded by the posters who would willingly abdicate somebody else's business aspirations. This is how Facebook and other JOB CREATORS start up. Duh. My question: how much is the fine? If it's less than the cost of renting space and furniture and outfitting with utility hook-up, pay it and keep on creating jobs. It's a trade-off, folks. Comply with some rink-dink malum per prohibitum local rules or hire people and create jobs and products. Simple as that.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
devnull, 10/31/2012 9:50:57 AM (No. 8976517)
Telecommuting only gets you so far. Co-location is required if the team is highly innovative. It also helps when you have a very tight dev-test-dev cycle.
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Obama’s plan hatched
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President Obama and I were college classmate at Columbia University, class of ’83. I know all too well how mindlessly liberal the students and faculty of that institution can be, and Barack Obama is certainly no exception. My time at Columbia made it crystal clear: liberals always believe they are morally superior. [Snip] It is in this cesspool of intolerance that Obama and his Marxist cronies hatched a secret plan to destroy our country. There are two things you need to know about Obama at Columbia University. First, he was Pre Law and a Political Science major- just like me.
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Obama Shoots Hoops
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/14/2013 3:20:00 PM
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Just weeks after going 2 for 22 on the basketball court, President Barack Obama went to shoot hoops again -- but this time there were no camers allowed. He was joined by his former aide Reggie Love, who played basketball for Duke. Here are today´s pool report: Sunday morning hoops -POTUS, wearing baseball cap and casual clothes, trotted down north steps of WH to waiting motorcade at 9:24 am. Arrived at FBI for basketball 9:30 am. ...Motorcade departed FBI at 11:36, arrived WH at 11:40 am. Tourists lined road snapping pix at start of trip
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