KMStraub

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by KMStraub 16y ago
The way I see it, Paul was willing to take a huge gamble on this company from the outset because of a strong gut feeling. Y Combinator didn't have to let them in and was being incredibly generous, going as far as setting aside their own ru
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by KMStraub 16y ago
Sorry, I'm nerdy but I guess not nerdy enough to be in on the joke. Could someone explain it to me? I'm "the business guy" in my startup, though I'm actually a girl.
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by KMStraub 16y ago
This is indeed great news, but I can't believe what CN has done to this company. Well, I actually can because I worked at CN for 4 years and saw extremely little investment in long-term digital strategy. There were a lot of tricks being t
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by KMStraub 16y ago
100% on board with this comment. A dose of humility is something lacking at the top of a lot of companies who wonder why they can't seem to hold onto their talent. Give your employees the feeling that you're counting on them, and your pro
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by KMStraub 16y ago
That's great to hear. A company that is so confident in what its doing and its hires, that it trusts and encourages them to expand their skill set and degree of influence.
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by KMStraub 16y ago
I thought this article was going to be about the controversial theory of crowdsourcing in the wider sense--not just design. With these deceiving headlines, you attract a lot of people like me who rain on your parade and unfortunately, thin
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by KMStraub 16y ago
Are you talking about the fact that it's CHARGING people to VALIDATE your idea? I get what they're trying to do, and I was actually on board for the first three points. But then I got to #4, and it was like slamming into a wall. So you'r
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by KMStraub 16y ago
This after the About.me buy. I'm excited to see how this reinvention pans out.
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by KMStraub 16y ago
I'm creating a product that hopefully fills this void. A casual, non-committal way to show someone you'd like to get to know them better--without all the noise. I'm also a girl, so my main concern is building something that doesn't veer i
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by KMStraub 16y ago
"The current popularity of facebook is also inherently causing a lot of people to stop sharing their personal lives on facebook." This is troubling to me. I feel like I'm looking at a bunch of ghosts when I view people's profiles now. Any
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by KMStraub 16y ago
Thanks, and interesting. I hadn't thought of that. I suppose the fact that I didn't even know I could do that--and that it's actually quite easy, functionally, as you say--also suggests some marketing issues? I just felt it was weird tha
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by KMStraub 16y ago
A friend and I just had a discussion about this last night. I can't say I've bothered to do it, but she says she just adjusts her privacy filter so that everyone in her company network can only see her picture and where she lives. I've be
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by KMStraub 16y ago
I know it's been 10 hours, but can I just say thank you? I left a random musing as a comment and signed off, and someone took the time and liberty to personally address it. One of the many reasons why I love this community.
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by KMStraub 16y ago
I wish someone had introduced me to code at 10-years-old. I had computer lab, but we just practiced Mavis Teaches Typing and played Oregon Trail. The closest I ever got to this was a circuit board, and I can remember how proud I was at th
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by KMStraub 16y ago
If you look at her bio, you'll see this author already has a new job at a startup called Pulse. Somehow that dampens this act of bravery for me. For all the upvotes she's gotten, the ending I was hoping for was her decision to become a fo
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by KMStraub 16y ago
One of the funnier things I've read in a long time. Thanks.
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by KMStraub 16y ago
I didn't think the author was whining at all--quite the opposite. Whiners endlessly complain about what's wrong and never posit a solution. Mr. Dilbert has quite a few solutions here that are "bad" albeit, but productive thoughts nonethel
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by KMStraub 16y ago
Disclaimer: I am poor.
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by KMStraub 16y ago
My "bad" thought: The rich work hard because they're running out of time. The poor work less because they have too much time to waste.
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by KMStraub 16y ago
Lots of gems in here. My favorite line: "They also know that any project can get by with 10% less money if there is no alternative." The world would be a much better place if there was less quibbling overall.
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by KMStraub 16y ago
I think it will only separate the men from the mice.
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by KMStraub 16y ago
I nodded vigorously through every sentence of your comment. Well done, and good to see you're a computer scientist and didn't have to rely on jargon to make your point.
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by KMStraub 16y ago
I know I get serious "presentation anxiety" when confronted with the challenge of with filling out my profile on a dating site. If women are more susceptible to this kind of malaise I wonder if that explains something about why there are 4
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by KMStraub 16y ago
No worries, I'm just happy to hear it registered with someone else. There's a much bigger goal here than Karma points :)
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by KMStraub 16y ago
"I wanted to do x, but no one would hire me even though I was capable because I didn’t have sufficient experience in x on my resume." I definitely identify with this line. I'm a 27-year-old woman and I left a cushy (read: boring) job writi
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Is the "About" button more important than we think?
12 points by KMStraub 16y ago|1 comments
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by KMStraub 16y ago
Does anyone else find themselves reading the first 1/3 of a landing page and then clicking on the miniscule "About" button at the very bottom most of the time? I think of it similarly to a deck I'd present to an investor: I'd give my probl