Kaizyn

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by Kaizyn 19y ago
Still though, when you're fighting for exposure early on, you may not have the luxury of going against the 'tastemakers' for everyone else's good.
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
Maybe for an individual team, there aren't enough games in a season to allow for a reasonable randomized test? It would make sense, perhaps, if your major league franchise controlled enough minor league teams, to use them as guinea pigs.
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
Facebook seems to be racking up lawsuits at a pace set to break Microsoft's record.
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
Good point. However, if he builds enough contacts between now and when he's twenty, that won't be much of a problem.
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
If you could solve the problems of 1) users reposting the popular links from other social sites (without attribution), 2) spam bots, or 3) a ruling clique from taking over the front page, then you could compete with Digg and probably beat t
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
Who is your target audience? If you don't know who they are, then your startup already has a problem... Once identified, can you think of any bloggers or other people that audience is inclined to listen to? If so, why not try contacting
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
Maybe we should be a little more careful about what we use as our news sources around here. But then again, gossip is probably too 'interesting' for humans to pass up.
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
I would be willing to bet you that they have no interest in becoming a service economy. The US built its power up by having a mighty manufacturing sector - it's what let us build tanks and planes and all the other instruments of war so wel
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
If you are concerned about your 'exit strategy' from the business you're planning to start, maybe you shouldn't even bother. Seriously, if you're not interested in building something to last, you might as well go into another fields such a
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
Consider relative bargaining power when you enter into acquisition negotiations. If you NEED to sell, then you will most likely accept any offer, no matter how bad, from the buyer. When you can take or leave any offer put on the table, yo
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
This is a great book. It delves into the psychology of how we think about and use the built world and explains why some things are simply hard to use as compared to other, better designed things.
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
You mean just as speculating in the mortgage securities market has led to economic prosperity? Oh wait...
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
unemployment office, bars, Ycombinator rejects get-togethers?
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
1) You can select your audience by tailoring the site more specifically to groups of people who are less prone to this problem, or 2) Employ user moderators and moderate the moderators.
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
Must be HP then?
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
What are you trying to do with them?
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
This device is dead on arrival. It uses the same small 6.4", 800x600 screen as the Sony Reader and has a resolution of 167 dpi. Low quality print is at 600 dpi or more. Even if it supports PDF format, you wouldn't want to try reading p
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
Sounds to me like sour grapes at another's success on the web?
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
Then don't disclose the algorithm or collect the $1 million. If your algorithm really is good, demonstrate it by 'winning the prize', but rather than claiming the money and turning your algorithm over to Netflix sell it to someone. You're
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
This idea would work if you can license e-Harmony's matching algorithm (or build a similar one of your own) to pair people up with prospective co-founders. Unless you really know someone, you don't want to go into business with them.
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
You find ideas in one of several ways: 1) you bricolage them together from reading a lot in a wide range of topics or 2) you think long and hard about a single problem you want to solve. In the former, you come up with something interesti
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
Building for a target market of one is a bit too narrow in many cases to be a good idea for something you hope to sell to a wider audience.
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
The point of getting rid of the WHOIS database is to make it harder for people to see what the large businesses are doing with domain registration, etc.
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
Why not ask your beta testers or don't you believe in generating information by using your own service?
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
Admins, please delete this thread. Its purpose is to advertise for and drive business to rms' website. As such, it's no better than spam.
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
I'd also be concerned about how 'anonymous' the data is. As you all know, they can tie any submissions back to an IP address or back to meddlesome cookies.
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
This is an excellent point. Had Joel Spolsky 'shared' the bug tracking system in such a cooperative pool, things would have turned out dramatically different for FogBugz.
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
This has come up a couple times before. However, specifically for entrepreneurs, the books to read are: 1) How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie 2) Musashi's The Book of Five Rings 3) Gonzo Marketing by Christoph
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by Kaizyn 19y ago
You mean like diffle.com?
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Startups Cooperative: Workable or Pie in the Sky Fantasy?
8 points by Kaizyn 19y ago|9 comments

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