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Controlling Times Square’s Screens With a Phone, for Real This Time(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
4 points by GBond 16y ago|1 comments
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by GBond 16y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Adds to 'creepiness' level of the method. I find it sort of funny. A startup is making money from the data mined from Google employees and it is being called creepy. I say it is poetic justice :)
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by GBond 16y ago
Am I alone in thinking it is strange that so many people use their work email for non-work stuff? I'm guessing the data originates from a grocery rewards program. I assumed everyone (at least a tech co. employee) uses a personal email for t
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by GBond 16y ago
> Two blog posts early on (one on NY vs. SF, and another about my time at Goldman Sachs) went viral and were what first put us on the map. To this day, people stop me when I’m wearing an AdGrok shirt and ask if I’m the guy from the blog
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by GBond 16y ago
A great under-explored market. Hurdle would be there needs to be some sort of feedback loop of how the piece actually fits ON the customer IRL. - Every body type is different and every label has different sizes/cuts. - how the outfit fits m
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Real Story Behind Charlie Sheen Joining Twitter(blogs.forbes.com)
3 points by GBond 16y ago|0 comments
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by GBond 16y ago
Related to this is the "Underachiever Method" and the previously discussed thread on the "400k/yr Parrot eBook guy" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516215 The long form is particular popular with this market targeting method because "
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by GBond 16y ago
Skip the link-bait CNN article and go straight to the article quoted: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/conf...
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by GBond 16y ago
If you hire for a fee, doesn't that make YOU the employee?
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Trapped on a bus with other geeks building a startup(startupbus.com)
25 points by GBond 16y ago|29 comments
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by GBond 16y ago
Related to this: "(47%) of the world’s wealthy people are entrepreneurs. ... Another 23% of the world’s millionaires got rich through paid work" http://www.economist.com/node/17929057
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by GBond 16y ago
Don't guess or make assumptions. A/B test both and make a decision based on hard numbers.
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by GBond 16y ago
Am I missing something? Where is the price of $3.99 derived from? Cost of creating the spider script? Labor cost of creating the BT seed? This article say nothing about this.
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by GBond 16y ago
Hacker News Contractors: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs3clV... Hacker News Users: http://hackernewsers.com/
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by GBond 16y ago
Well that changes things. I thought the article would be about how a failed Groupon would trigger a tech bubble implosion. Copy and paste error or link-bait tactic?
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by GBond 16y ago
Second this. Specifically he is pointing out that without the proper definition of a startup, this is merely lip-service that hits the right amount of buzz words for the media to regurgitate. Why is he posting this? My guess, he genuinely
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by GBond 16y ago
Great "social internet" Engineering feat, eh maybe. Compared with other real-time & data intensive platforms, not even close. Electronic finance assets exchange platforms are a order of magnitudes more complex.
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by GBond 16y ago
> Or, in short: I wish I was smarter about it and more business-savvy. Here is a non-solicited biz-savy tip: Tell us the names of your plugins.
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by GBond 16y ago
> It is embarrasing for the company but really this move won't change anything financially for either party. I beg to differ. National news about a security firm being hacked for its confidential IP can't be good for future business.
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by GBond 16y ago
AOL really screwed up MapQuest. They had : - the largest market share in consumer free web maps (probably as recent as 4 years ago) - the holy grail for marketers. The brand reached "verbing" status. People used to say "MapQuest it" - a he
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by GBond 16y ago
I agree with your comment (both are needed in a established corp) but I also agree with what the article was trying to say but ultimately doesn't succeed in driving home. If the goal is to create a TECH STARTUP, the non-coding, "fear me.
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by GBond 16y ago
Server down. Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9HT6OkA...
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by GBond 16y ago
^ I rest my case ;)
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by GBond 16y ago
IMO his big win was getting an iPhone app dev (who can actually execute) agree to make an app for him on the premise of splitting revenue. Either this was real early time of the "App goldrush" before anyone knew money could be made or the
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by GBond 16y ago
Probably phrased that way for "oompf" factor. "Win a favorable term loan" doesn't quite have the same ring to it. Might I suggest the a new terminology for founder favorable seed-round convertible notes?: "Yuri bucks" edit: BTW, great to se
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by GBond 16y ago
Yes. Many of the NYC.gov websites are run on a "enterprise CMS" that imposes long URLs (name of the CMS starts with an "I"... ends with a "woven"). I understand that the purpose of this submission was to poke fun at NYC gov't and their seem
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by GBond 16y ago
"Is Quora Ready for Pop Music?" would actually be a good question to be posted Quora itself and "Why is Nicki Minaj so popular?" would make a fine personal blog post... downside of that is the later would probably not make HN front page.
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by GBond 16y ago
I've watch a number of "inside NK" documentaries and I agree, this is one of the better ones (despite the hipster host's somewhat condescending attitude). There was some good footage of interaction with NK common folks and the host keep try
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by GBond 16y ago
> It meant that we weren’t going to have graphical banners on our site. The topic and timing of this is interesting. I wonder if author posted on this in response to gmail moving towards image ads?: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by GBond 16y ago
counter point: Greenplum. An anecdotal evidence that it is possible to fire all of sales, rewrite and not only survive but also have a good exit. http://www.beyondvc.com/2010/07/emc-buys-portfolio-company-g...

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