IsaacL

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A Digital Tomorrow [video](vimeo.com)
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Why not just give him equity with vesting and a 6-month (or 12-month) cliff?
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Big data rewrites the CMO’s role(marketingweek.co.uk)
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I assume you've asked them, but what did they say? My guess: Haskell has a very strong academic background. I know it's very popular in the language design community, I mean, it's basically lambda calculus with a very advanced type system,
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Thanks a lot, that's very helpful. "I suspect that there's a real fundamental values gap (or a vastly different collection of weights and terms in utility functions, if you swing that way) which make my opinion less useful to you than it mi
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"My totally subjective opinion is that, if you're a freelancer or consultant, any one of these will be probably more useful than the entire rest of my blog put together." You're right there -- I was reading the first few paragraphs and thin
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As GP said, read Christensen's "Innovator's Dilemma". He's the guy who first came up with the term "disruptive innovation", and it's more than just a TechCrunch buzzword -- there's a whole theory behind how disruption actually works.
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Very well said. I've been planning a blog post for some time on "hidden principles of Silicon Valley"; basically the unsaid assumptions that the top investors seem to follow but the startup peanut gallery don't grasp. Just little tidbits I'
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I read an interesting report (I think it was from McKinsey) about different tech clusters around the world, and which had succeeded or failed. One major theme (as the report was mainly aimed at policy makers) was government support; was it
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"This may or may not be a spat, but it looks suspiciously like when two tribes who were happily expanding across virgin tundra suddenly find they are jostling each other for space." Speaking of analogies, that's a great one. I'll have to re
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You should check these guys out: you can apply with no idea AND no team, then find both after joining. (Ignore their corporate-looking website, they're very switched on). http://entrepreneurfirst.org.uk
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"IMHO, what was said in the email is just marketing duck-speak, no matter how sincere it sounds until proven otherwise." I agree that this looks like a PR stunt, but it also shows some potential changes underfoot at Paypal. Here's my read o
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SEEKING WORK: London, UK - Remote a possibility. I'm a fullstack web developer. On the backend I mainly work in Ruby (Rails or Sinatra), but I'm also experienced with Java and PHP, and I've played around with Python, C, Haskell, Clojure, et
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I can't understand this snobbishness about ads. Advertising has made a lot of web companies a lot of money. Yes, it's the uncreative default revenue stream. Unsure how to make money? Ads! But that's also a good thing - there's a default int
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Most entrepreneurs I've met want to "build a company, any company" rather than "follow their life-long vision". That might not be a bad thing. Idea generation is a learnable skill, and once you can generate a bunch of viable ideas, you can
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Are you a beautiful strong programmer that don’t need no business guy?(i.saac.me)
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For UK freelancers, I've heard nothing but good things about FreeAgent (accounting & invoicing). TopTal (vetted programmer network) seems like a cool source of high-paying clients, though I haven't yet had any jobs out of it (2 weeks in
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Suggestion: "how much would you theoretically pay for this" won't give you much accurate information. I'd suggest changing it to "pre-register for one of our plans: free, $5, $25", with an overview of each, and see what people click.
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Most valuable public company. Saudi Aramco is worth over $7 trillion.
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The Startup Peanut Gallery(i.saac.me)
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Regardless of this story, I find it very cool that in Brazil you can just setup your own credit card company. Are there many regional CC networks like yours in Brazil? How did you get the idea?
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I've actually considered doing something like this. Considering the amount I could get as a full-time contract Rails programmer, and the living costs (and amazing quality of life) in Chengdu (western China), I often ask myself why I don't j
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Just searching $100 logo gave me a bunch of hits, like these guys: http://www.100dollarlogo.com/ Designing a logo is one of those things, like naming, where lots of effort may be spent on seemingly small outcomes. That's because a good de
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I have to take the minority position and stand up for Quora here. I'm a huge fan of the service, and though I agree this latest move was a mis-step, I remain a loyal Quora user. Unlike you, I've gained a ton of value from it. Unlike the tri
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SEEKING WORK: London, UK - Remote a possibility. I'm a fullstack web developer. On the backend I prefer using Ruby (Rails or Sinatra), but I've also got experience with Java, PHP, and some Python, C, Haskell, Clojure, etc. On the frontend I
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TaskRabbit Gets $13M Series C From Founders Fund And Others(techcrunch.com)
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It's like the guy said in "The Graduate" when asked for career advice: just one word, "plastics". For my younger self, the word I'd use would be "smartphones".
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This is swombat, one of the biggest tech bloggers in the UK, not some random linkbaiter trying to build his Klout score. He's been around for years, and his blog has always been a repository for interesting links he finds online, along with
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It’s only 10 lines of code, but it took 200 years to build(i.saac.me)
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By the way, I highly recommend Clayton Christensen's book The Innovator's Dilemma, which was mentioned in the article. If I ruled the world I'd decree that no-one was allowed to allowed to apply the word "disrupt" to technology or business

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