QuantumGood

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by QuantumGood 16y ago
For comparison, here is the rejection we received in late 2007 (for a two-founder business not in school willing to relocate): "We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding. Please don't take it personally, because most o
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
They hired a great CEO in Dick Costolo, gave him time to prove himself within Twitter as COO, then promoted him to CEO. This may have been thought out for quite a while in advance.
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
When I last checked, my main account (@TweetSmarter) had more retweets (lifetime) than the main New York Times account (@NYTimes). The real reason why? My wife and I offer Twitter advice through that account to anyone who asks...and a lot o
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
What I think are the three ESSENTIAL chess books are listed here: http://j.mp/bvbRoO ...The cheapest one is a lot of fun. I won money in the U.S. Open and the New York Open, but that was only because I was basically improving quickly and
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
Overnight, I secretly built and installed a large outdoor product display at a huge annual Midwest festival without management approval or knowledge that broke some key rules of my contract (I was in management with about 50 of my own emplo
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
In #1 and elsewhere they reference "a certain threshold of intelligence." So isn't that #6?
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
Great comment. Successful entrepreneurs are often very hard to pigeonhole, and are often classified by others in ways that surprise them. Really, one quality would be your ability to succeed in spite of how other people estimate your chance
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
...and getting backlinks is one of the areas where people most underestimate the amount of work required to do well. Everyone wishes on page factors made a much bigger difference than they actually do.
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
Had two fail. And also have broken two. Use Dropbox instead where possible.
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
Hey, a child IS a startup...and you can't be risk averse to create one.
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
Simple to conceptualize and easy to do are not the same things.
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
Loyalty programs used with jackpot rewards (one of the most powerful ways to positively condition behavior) are very powerful. As the article points out, loyalty programs matter more to consumers the more rewards they build up. A way to pot
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
So well said upvoting just isn't enough. (And as soon as I added my point, your total dropped a point. Hmm.)
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
So the reason is to 1. Create a prototype, and 2. Get respect from developers. Re: #2—Let's reverse this, specifically for marketing. Developers (and pretty much anyone) who know a little marketing can be harder to work with than those th
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
It wasn't exclusivity as much as an optimized network effect that benefited Facebook. The same thing happened with MySpace initially. Smaller networks generate a network effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect ) more quickly be
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
They should rename it Windows Undead...I can't see how they are ever going to kill it off.
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
I always figured Google Catalog Search would do something like this. I guess I should have called up Larry or Sergey and suggested it before they closed it down :)
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How many employees does ___ have?
2 points by QuantumGood 16y ago|0 comments
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
Foolish of me. Here's the top 35: http://i.imgur.com/Qu61u.png
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
I started developing sites in 2000, so...many years of frustration have created my "unnecessary bias."
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
Good question. Here's the top 35: http://i.imgur.com/Qu61u.png
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
I agree. Know how to edit the title? I can't seem to find a way to do it. Maybe I don't have enough karma?
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
...Google analytics from davidglarson.com. I just found it so pleasant to see a day without IE I had to share :)
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Browsers used in 5500+ HN visits yesterday(i.imgur.com)
58 points by QuantumGood 16y ago|32 comments
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by QuantumGood 16y ago
Reading http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint made it seem like they "lost" because they gave up. Successful businesses often reinvent themselves for greater success in ways completely unanticipated beforehand. Most successful
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The real reason "Wesabe lost" (to Mint)(davidglarson.com)
47 points by QuantumGood 16y ago|41 comments