NY_Entrepreneur

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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
"Without Paul Allen Microsoft as we know it would not have existed because he named Microsoft Microsoft." So he named the company? Now you are being totally silly and showing that you are determined to fight with me for just silly reasons.
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
"would they have been able to without the support of the other half?" The evidence overwhelmingly, yes they would have been successful. You are correct that Gates, Jobs, and Buffett are not perfect examples of successful sole founders, bu
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Sure, Woz helped get Apple started. Then with that start, Jobs had cash that helped him at Next and Pixar and back at Apple where he worked for $1 a year. So, Jobs was really the 'founder' of the success at Next, Pixar, and the Apple we k
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Sure. Still, what I said is on target: Gates, Jobs, etc. did the big, huge growth just from their own brains. There's no good reason to believe that they could not have done all of the success, including the first days, essentially alone
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
You are just flatly refusing to pay any informed attention at all to history or to read what the heck I actually wrote. Take Gates: When Allen was still around, Microsoft was a still a small company IBM was still laughing at. Then Allen l
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Allen and Woz both left early on. Allen was in a plane wreck and/or got cancer or some such? Woz was gone before Jobs was at Next, Pixar, or back at Apple. I'm sure Jobs had a mother, also, but as I wrote, and is clearly the case, Apple,
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Even if the roulette ball drops into the slot 00, the play was still a "big risk", and so was, under the circumstances, insisting on a cofounder. That is, given how much Drew had already done, a cofounder had to be mostly just downside ris
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
On 'the rules': Again, just a fast look at VC finances shows that VC just MUST hit 'home runs' such as Dropbox or better. Then just a fast look at the history of home runs shows that get only a few each decade. And just a fast look at thos
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
"They look at patterns. This is what VC does." Yup, again, they don't have effective criteria. "You have a content business." Wrong. You are misinformed. "Also, if you conduct yourself in person like you do here that is probably another i
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
You keep assuming that my concern here is my business. It's NOT. My concern was just being clear on just what the heck VCs do. VCs are welcome to do what they want. While I have very little respect for all but a tiny fraction of VCs, I a
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
"You seem angry." The reply by tptacek discarded the point I was trying to make and claimed that I was just complaining because, according to an uninformed claim of tptacek, I was having trouble raising equity funding. The goal of tptacek
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
It would be one heck of a super sandwich for Fred Wilson to do so! Maybe if the restaurant were right there on Union Square and did lunch deliveries in the area and had some fantastic sandwiches and pitched Fred after several beers! So, ne
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
"nuh-uh, it's super hard to get funding". I never suggested any such thing. But I WAS being critical: PG's description amounted to saying that VCs want to get on the plane only after it has already left the runway. Although I didn't say
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
"an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model" I've read that some dozens of times from Blank. Sounds like a guy opening a pizza shop knows better what he's doing than the IT startups Blank is talking about!
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
I don't quite 'get it': So, "Could you expand on your answer a little, please". You seem to be saying that the key is "traction", significant and growing rapidly. Then it sounds like someone who was just featured on the TV show 'Diners, Dr
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Well, can back that down a little! For C#, there are some advantages in using just Visual Basic .NET instead: I'm doing a startup and developing a Web site intended to be a serious business and am using Microsoft, .NET, etc. C#? Never to
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
One "pointer" would be how a graduate student proposed their Ph.D. dissertation project. There is a lot of variety here. The way I did it was (1) pick my own practical problem I brought to graduate school, (2) in my first summer use some
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
VCs have some VERY serious problems: Mark Suster has some graphs that show that on average over the past 10 years VC returns SUCK. Thus, a lot of venture partners won't be able to raise a new fund. Thus, a lot of venture partners will ha
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
"Single"? I was married for years and then she died. I'm not going to get married again. "Unemployed"? I'm an entrepreneur, not an 'employee'. I've been an employee of several large organizations, all very well known. At one, it was a
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Their Web site has no e-mail address for contacting them. The e-mail address they used to publicize died. When calling for an e-mail address, their phone recorder is full of static. If leave a message asking for an e-mail address, they don'
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
"If you can win in competition within your organization through putting down other people, your organization has bigger problems." You say this as if it were rare or unexpected! If so, then you are missing the weight of what you said! Onc
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Sure, it's possible to write some really bad Web apps. E.g., at my bank, they keep changing their Web site so that once each few months I have to click and click and click to look for where they have moved the page to let me download the P
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
"Whether it runs in a browser or is an application isn't relevant to how easy something is to use." Sure, in principle and often in practice can make a mess out of a Web app and can have something nicely simple in a native app. But your "is
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Is Silicon Valley really a hot bed of startups? Let's see: People do 'startups' border to border in the US, in communities tiny to huge. Those startups might be a pizza carryout, electrical engineering company, franchised fast food restau
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
'Web apps' have had a fantastically valuable feature nearly never mentioned. If we make big changes in how a Web browser client interacts with a Web server, then we risk getting rid of this fantastically valuable feature and seriously hurt
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
You seem to be saying that "the best technical people", because they are so good technically, are, then, necessarily less good than others at "business/social skills". It's an old myth used by people without technical expertise to put down
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
For the changes the article is predicting, for at least 20 years there's not even as much as a weak little hoot of a tiny chance of the change happening to any significant extent. It's an OLD story with a very well known outcome -- the chan
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
What you wrote with: "almost all of their time trying prevent a riot from breaking out" is quite similar to what I wrote with: "The best can hope for from a K-12 school is that it will do no harm. "Find a school that has a nice 'social atmo
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Don't try to send them to a 'good' school, certainly not an 'academically good' school. Bluntly, the K-12 teachers don't know anything worth much serious study or effort. The best can hope for from a K-12 school is that it will do no harm.
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Ah, what a morality play -- secrecy, power, greed, collusion, dirty dealing, guilt, shame, etc.! If HN can't outgrow the fascination with morality plays, then what hope is there for the rest of society and society as a whole? We need a new

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