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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
Isn't Scoble famous for being the guy who essentially took Microsoft, then facing uncertain times because of lack of direction, and suggest that one of their top priorities be to embrace employee blogging at all levels? It's the early 2000s
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
We don't talk about suicide in society very well let alone within the startup community. Founders find themselves in extremely stressful situations and living lifestyles that exacerbate the effects of this stress. Remember to eat well, try
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
Kudos for not blaming the tool when that would have been the easiest route. It's worth mentioning that 10gen has MongoDB Monitoring Service out now. It makes monitoring MongoDB instances a lot more accessible and convenient.
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
What are the chances that VCs are planting these sort of stories in order to try to scare startups into accepting deals with terms that are more advantageous to the VCs? Exactly one week ago, there was a story printed in the New York Times
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
Jumped the shark posts have jumped the shark.
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
So, I'll just repeat what The Lean Startup would say (or at least my interpretation): a) You still have your hypothesis, but you can't validate them until you have actual data. People's opinions about how they might act to some situation in
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
Just curious. I read Running Lean and always had problems with its advice. I just recently got my hands on Lean Startup and think the advice is a lot better. Running Lean is part of the problem. People can't tell you what they want, you can
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
You're right, it's on the cover. I have jumped right into the book but haven't read anywhere in there claims that Lean will cause success. It's pretty modest in the claims. I find it interesting that it's blatantly on the cover though. I'm
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
I suppose I wasn't very clear, but what I was trying to say is that a lot of entrepreneurs are turning to Lean for a framework that will lead them to success. That's about as big of a misunderstanding as thinking being able to predict the w
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
The jury is still out on whether Lean is a model that "works", that term being defined by most entrepreneurs as letting them succeed. I have absolutely no doubt that Lean works as a model for revealing "truth" as Eric Ries claims. Here's
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I already have a copy and actually have it right by my laptop as I type this into the wee morning. The book is fantastic so far and I haven't been able to put it down. I'm not reading it in a linear fashion but treating it like a reference
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
Until now, Google has not had to care about the coolness factor. They weren't in the social space. Now that they are, just look at how Google+ has fizzled. They pulled the worst stunt you possibly could have pulled when you're trying to be
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
Sports stadiums are never profitable. Tax payers in the municipalities where the stadiums are built pick up the losses in almost all cases, either during construction or when the team decides to just leave and holds them ransom for a new on
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
Facebook is a social network. Being social, it is subject to the same laws of attraction, affection, excitement, and coolness that the hot new restaurant, dance club, and sports stadium are in your particular city. Step 1: the cool kids spo
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
Auto racing used to be a lot more dangerous for spectators than it is today. We're only 30 years or so removed from a time when bails of hay and waist-high walls were all that separated crowds from the track. Go back a little bit further an
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
I disagree. The only reason the bill didn't pass is because the Conservatives had a minority government. Every time the bill was introduced, the government was forced into an election. That meant the bill died. It's been re-introduced over
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
I'm a bit nostalgic but I think IE3 was huge. I was still in high school but I remember staying up all night so that I could download it the moment it was available. Up until IE3 was released, Netscape Navigator was virtually unchallenged.
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
Seriously, start on Twitter. Everybody who's anybody in the Toronto developer scene is pretty active on Twitter these days. Find a few developers with blogs, follow them, then start following a few of their followers or people they RT. From
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
My advice. Don't do contract freelance work. It is risky in that if you're not a good business person, you will string yourself along under the illusion of paying the bills. But you'll slowly be moving backward as projects take longer than
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
Long term, this kind of problem isn't going away for AirBnB. To ignore it would be as foolish as a retailer avoiding the problem of shrink. To treat this case like it is an isolated, unique event, is also ridiculous. AirBnB might be tremend
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
Billion dollar companies spend money to buy Red Hat Enterprise Linux licenses, because promising 100% binary compatibility with RHEL isn't as good as being RHEL. If CentOS is even an option, Scientific Linux should be as well.
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by 9oliYQjP 15y ago
I'll take that as a compliment and leave this essay right here (look at the section on Amateurs): http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html
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Can it be a bubble if everybody's called it from the start? I happen to think we're probably in one, but there's a part of me that questions if there are so many doubters, how can the bubble expand? In the 1990s in the first dot com bubble,
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by 9oliYQjP 16y ago
I'm a university dropout, but the level of linear algebra, multivariable calculus, and discrete math that I did take before leaving school is so far above and beyond what Khan academy currently offers. With the exception of Calculus, Khan a
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by 9oliYQjP 16y ago
Great leaders figure out how to effectively work with "B and C" grade developers. Good leaders simply try not to work with them. Poor leaders blame them.
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by 9oliYQjP 16y ago
The best contingency plan is to have at least 3 co-founders. This can be an asymmetrical relationship at times. But I think you'll find a lot of successful companies usually quickly added a 3rd person to the mix early on. It's a matter of s
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by 9oliYQjP 16y ago
Most of us that have been around since the beginning (this is my second account) are too busy to participate as regularly as we once did. I'd rather spend time on my business than get hooked on discussions here as much as I did in the past.
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by 9oliYQjP 16y ago
The problem is assessing who the critical members of the partnership are at that moment. I've met companies where the quiet, reserved hacker in the background was the real brains for the technical and business side of things. The other pa
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The bureaucrats (CRTC) were the ones who tried to force this on the population. Elected officials decided to reverse the decision. The Conservatives first said they would send the decision back for "reconsideration" and then Harper chimed i
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by 9oliYQjP 16y ago
A couple of ideas off the top of my head... Location Groups: -I might shop at 3 different grocery stores. Let me group them together and nickname them, so that when I arrive at any one of the locations, I am reminded of a task. Traveling Sa

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