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CryoLogic
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Probably more doomed to succeed. Scope creep is one of the biggest things that kills startups. KISS and get the MVP out. If users like it, move forwards - otherwise pivot.
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I don't know if it could be blamed on an algorithm. Some of the companies (MS was one) even hosted parties for the female members of IEEE and ACM. Took them out to their campus, free meals, mock interviews, free swag, networking events
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Affirmative action is discrimination, and has strong negative effects on local economies. Consider a firm which operates at equilibrium (where peak profit is achieved), with a ratio of 80% male, 20% female. Artificially capping the number o
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I'm very interested in seeing how this case pans out, seeing that he cited "favoring women" as a criteria. In many courts, similar cases like this have been laughed off. In today's world, in many established companies th
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By the logic in this thread, Microsoft also needs to die. IBM, HP and Dell too. All companies who haven't been innovative, but rather coming in second to existing markets and doing a mediocre job. Turns out second place still pays the
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Some how these numbers are higher than AWS's numbers in the same quarter. Something weird is going on. Are they lumping other MS products which run in the Azure cloud into this figure? Office 365, etc?
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What's your plan for acquiring users? I've built several small social networks, and the biggest issue is always getting new users - and keeping them active. The technical part is more or less a front-end, a back-end and some datab
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Seattle seems to be one of the worst markets for this. We have a huge number of job openings in tech, but very few entry level openings.
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Launched earlier this year with a $500 budget, now making ~1.2k revenue per month trying to grow it further. Still need to get a job though, $200/mo is not much fun for food in Seattle.
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Social Networking Sites and Apps are in a lot of trouble when we realize that once again they aren't producing profit (Snapchat, Twitter, Etc.).
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I'm no expert in this area, but when I look for potential co-founders I always think the best metric is how self driven they are. It's so easy to find people who went to school, got the grades and graduated. Its harder to find peo