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by Harj 19y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Yes-Negotiating-Agreement-With... the best book on negotiation i've read. recommended to me by a vc who was a former professional negotiator. it's a great book and especially useful for founders raising money
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by Harj 19y ago
"They took VC money when they have paying customers and a working business model and it was time to grow the company." Paypal had no idea what their business model was going to be when they took VC (they tried to fight off ebay sellers to b
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by Harj 19y ago
those are the only two outcomes max would view as acceptable anyway. and probably not even so much for the latter.
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by Harj 19y ago
"let's put no ads on our site and we'll destroy facebook's network effects, surely that'll work!"
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by Harj 19y ago
i thought this was going to be web design, like post your site up here and have someone improve the design. kinda like an online version of what wufoo's kevin hale does for yc startups. that coulda been cool
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by Harj 19y ago
well im referring to the earlier events a few years ago - this was the first one pg and jessica attended and they're far more relaxed about who can attend now.
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by Harj 19y ago
you should have just turned up, they don't have big scary bouncers to throw you out - just pose as a student :) they wouldn't let non-mba's attend the original events but we used to go anyway.
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by Harj 19y ago
one way to avoid this is deliberately trying to find non-corroborative evidence for every idea/opinion you form. it's talked about in the Black Swan and is surprisingly difficult to do.
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by Harj 19y ago
i'd really really like to attend but am away that weekend
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by Harj 19y ago
"Harvard, whose endowment of $26 billion (GBP13.8 billion) exceeds total annual funding for all British universities" that gives a powerful indication of the sheer scale of the imbalance between the resources at the disposal of UK and US ed
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by Harj 19y ago
Yes it is. You can temporarily suspend your account but facebook still keep all of your data and then when you reactivate your account, all of your information is still there from your past account. The net result is you can never take out
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by Harj 19y ago
there's no way to delete your account on facebook either
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by Harj 19y ago
btw that is actually a genuine artists impression of patrick. thankfully we've got him to stop wearing that lab coat around the apartment but he still sports that evil grin from time to time.
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Auctomatic's Collison Brothers now part of the Irish High School Curriculum(transatlanticitinerant.files.wordpress.com)
7 points by Harj 19y ago|8 comments
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by Harj 19y ago
because they get shit done
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The Age Distortion Effect(mealticket.wordpress.com)
10 points by Harj 19y ago|0 comments
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by Harj 19y ago
what % of users in this market do you think care whether their fantasy sports site uses a java applet or flash?
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by Harj 19y ago
This comment/article aside - how many web startups have KP invested in recently? They've not had a major hit since Google and have spent their time investing in a bunch of other sectors. There's nothing new here.
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by Harj 19y ago
"six people have my cell phone #" is that something to be proud of?
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by Harj 19y ago
that is one slick site, awesome :)
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and some ruby :)
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by Harj 19y ago
hey cyggie, thanks for the feedback. to address your points: Scheduling - yes we totally agree scheduling is a critical feature and it's at the top of http://features.auctomatic.com and we'll be working on it asap. We've found that powers
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Auctomatic launches better tools for eBay powersellers(venturebeat.com)
21 points by Harj 19y ago|9 comments
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this is interesting, though as with any marketplace liquidity is the winning factor. my gut tells me there won't be enough of that to make this work but who knows.
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even if that's true how's it worse than a closed platform?
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He's not arguing that facebook isn't an effective means of communication or a good web-app. His (valid) point is that users put all their information into facebook without being able to take it back out when they want. There's an imbalanc
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by Harj 19y ago
We're building e-commerce tools and would be very interested in talking with these chinese manufacturers - please get in touch, harj AT auctomatic DOT com
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by Harj 19y ago
This really is just totally and utterly wrong and bad advice in just about every way possible: "while you are here for "fun", make the connections and taste the waters. If everything is running smoothly then you can contact the Immmigration
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by Harj 19y ago
in what sense is the L1 expensive?
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by Harj 19y ago
"If the business is every widget under the sun conglomerated into this giant application, there's no real technology there. There's no noteworthy computer-science problem being solved." try to solve computer-science problems is a reason why

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