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by NSX2 19y ago
>> If, as you claim, Marc was one of many students, then >> he was improperly crediting the work as that of himself >> and one other. I don't know what email you're reading but the one I'm reading just has him and on
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by NSX2 19y ago
Seriously, what the hell are you talking about? You're putting words in my mouth to create straw man arguements. I never challenged the "general consensus" of Marks involvement with Mosaic - I even explicitly stated this in a prior post i
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by NSX2 19y ago
Actually your "source" doesn't cite anything other than that he worked on the project; I never debated that. As to whether or not he was the "most prominent developer" on the project, well, according to history as written by rich successfu
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by NSX2 19y ago
Not true; I don't know what search results you guys are getting but if you cared to look it up, here's an example: "Netscape has buzz but also faces perils. The University of Illinois is alleging that Clark and Andreessen have stolen the in
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by NSX2 19y ago
I don't recall all the details since this was about a decade ago, but as far as I can recall, Netscape got sued by the U. of Illinois & they wound up settling out of court for millions. In addition, as for the open-source thing, I beli
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by NSX2 19y ago
Well, he was a student, one of quite a few, working on the base code of what became Netscape Navigator. One weekend when nobody was around he decided he wanted more out of the project than research credit, so he let himself into the resear
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by NSX2 19y ago
People are secretive so they can avoid the likes of a Marc Andreeson or a Mark Zuckerburg. As you can plainly see, despite all the talk of "honor" and "our reputation is the basis for our business" and not dealing with companies that are b
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by NSX2 19y ago
Well, it was a combination of supposedly shared values and reputation by people who I've come to learn are easily manipulated by what other people think about a person and the internet blog-sphere more than any actual first-hand knowledge.
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by NSX2 19y ago
That's weird. I could have sworn that people other than myself knew about Google ...
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by NSX2 19y ago
Nope, sorry. Multi-tierred share classes in this country goes back to Standard Oil. Overall you can find variations of this going all the way back the the East India Tea Company. Every modern business genius is just rehashing some crap s
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by NSX2 19y ago
Well, lazy founder would be me ... I mean the "other founder guy" ... and actually I just tried that and got back just ... 5 pages x 20 results per page, half of them (later pages) mostly irrelevant. So I guess it's just me. Everyone else
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by NSX2 19y ago
I'll try to paraphrase the best definition I've come across from, of all places, a Harvard b-school prof.: "An enetrepreneur is someone who pursues (as opposed to talks about or plans) a perceived strategic opportunity (perception being th
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This Google result can't possibly be right:
4 points by NSX2 19y ago|6 comments
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by NSX2 19y ago
If you're stupid enough to seek the approval and affection of a bunch of lawyers and mega-corp. Office-Space type VPs of whatever, you don't have the confidence it takes to start your own company in general, let alone to do so and persever
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by NSX2 19y ago
This is the funniest thing I've read on this site ... ever.
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by NSX2 19y ago
Okay, maybe I took it too far. But if you think about it I do have a point to an extent. Perhaps I took it too far but I can't help but notice during the last year or so that I've been monitoring this thing and posting once in a while tha
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by NSX2 19y ago
Not really; in both cases you have people who don't know what they're talking about giving unsolicited advice the value of which nobody knows a priori ...
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by NSX2 19y ago
>> he made a bunch of money playing poker Well! I take back what I said. Obviously "making a bunch of money playing poker" qualifies one as an expert in rapidly assigning probabilities of success to ventures undertaken in an incre
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by NSX2 19y ago
Methinks you protest too much ...
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by NSX2 19y ago
Are you a management consultant? Because at least those guys figured out how to get paid for their inconsequential opinions on how OTHER people should run THEIR businesses ... remind us all again what makes you the definative expert on OTH
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by NSX2 19y ago
That's your problem, Ryan - you're politely asking for feedback from bitter, jealous members of an elitist mutual-admiration society whose total collective output to date equals ... well, all I'm saying is you should know better! Go ahead,
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by NSX2 19y ago
Exactly ... I know I'm going to lose all 9 of my karma points for this, but: Michael Dell is successful in business and throughout 98, 99, and 2000 maintained that Steve Jobs should just "give up" and "stop deluding shareholders". Good thi
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Ask YC: We have a common challenge; share strategies to overcome it?
2 points by NSX2 19y ago|5 comments
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by NSX2 19y ago
Danny, I'm Romanianian too; click on my profile and shoot me an email if you want to talk more. I understand your point exactly; I have 2 family members who are programmers there in Bucharest and when I called them up half a year ago to jo
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by NSX2 19y ago
Depends. ONE THE ONE HAND, in my experience drama seems to go hand in hand with lack of strong leadership and ability to light a fire under people's rear ends by painting an inspiring "end result of our hard work" mural. It's like that s
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by NSX2 19y ago
Hey antimattar; might I enquire as to your professional identity, if not personal than firm? I just assume when you say, "if you were my client" ...
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by NSX2 19y ago
With all due respect, WTF?!? You maintain that people are the foundation. Seems like in this case the people were not up to it. Either the "idea guys" had an idea which was not compelling enough to motivate the programmers to overcome th
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by NSX2 19y ago
High-value transactions? Major transactions? Significant transactions? Important transactions?
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by NSX2 19y ago
Thanks for the reply; I guess I took it for granted in this day and age that of course equity would be considered. But I imagine that all startups offer equity so I really wanted to get to the jist of what would get "geeks" or "coders" as
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by NSX2 19y ago
Any sufficiently advanced critique is indistinguishable from the random mumblings of someone who not only can't figure out how to occupy their time with more interesting, useful pursuits but fails to realize that you can't establish any ser

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