RobPfeifer

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by RobPfeifer 14y ago
Take a look at the Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley - pulls together a lot of these historical thoughts but focuses on people/texts that haven't become so popular they've lost meaning or been misappropriated.
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by RobPfeifer 14y ago
The founder Dileep George was a founder/advisor at Numenta. I believe it was his paper on HTMs that led to its founding. He left in 2010, but curious as to how Recursive Cortical Networks differ from Numenta's product, which is moving waaay
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by RobPfeifer 14y ago
I think the real takeaway here is: "Email is a better marketing channel then Facebook"
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by RobPfeifer 14y ago
Wait, her husband was "married" to a guy for 10 years before they got married? How often does that happen? "Before his marriage to Ms. Pao, Mr. Fletcher lived in the Dakota with Hobart V. Folkes Jr., his partner of more than 10 years, accor
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by RobPfeifer 14y ago
Is this really true? seems like the early and late stage guys are doing pretty well raising funds. - Summit closed 2 funds with a combined 3.2bn in January - NEA is raising 2.5bn - AH raised 1.5bn - General Catalyst is raising around
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by RobPfeifer 14y ago
I didn't see the original article in the Atlantic anywhere here which is where I heard about this first. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-poli... It's considerably more indepth and worth reading for a fuller view. I
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by RobPfeifer 14y ago
Most of the venture funds are actually investing the money of pension funds and university endowments, not "rich people". "Rich people" - meaning recent tech multi-millionaires are driving an increase in angel investing, but they are not wh
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by RobPfeifer 14y ago
We're working on it :)
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by RobPfeifer 15y ago
Forecasting, pricing and marketing analytics roles are all good transitions. Lots of excel still necessary - all you really need to learn is some SQL and maybe R/SAS.
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by RobPfeifer 15y ago
In my experience, click-through rates aren't that great and conversion is really pretty bad. I've worked at 2 decent size ecommerce companies and the CPO hasn't ever really been profitable for social media ads especially compared to Google
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by RobPfeifer 15y ago
3 of my top 4 as well! I would add new criterion as well
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by RobPfeifer 15y ago
They're here: <a href=" http://imgur.com/5YeNq><img src=" http://i.imgur.com/5YeNq.gif title="Hosted by imgur.com" alt="" /></a> I saved this when I came across it a while back. Also, they had $961mm in net income
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by RobPfeifer 15y ago
This: “My guess is that at some point the music stops and we find out that there’s not just one less chair but hundreds of thousands of less chairs, and we’ll have thousands of kids who haven’t learned anything because they’re all expecting
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by RobPfeifer 15y ago
One things they're missing is a major university. Not sure that would ever work in Vegas.
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by RobPfeifer 15y ago
I've met the CEO a couple of times, and I'd say he basically brags about exploitative they are. Have to say I'm shocked at how many tech savvy people use them. Didn't realize how convincing Danica Patrick is I guess.
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by RobPfeifer 15y ago
Go to Buck's in Woodside for breakfast ( http://www.buckswoodside.com/ ) and try to identify who's a VC and who's a CEO. Great rich people watching. Plus the food is good.
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by RobPfeifer 15y ago
Does anyone have any idea how to figure out what their "energy per Pound to orbit" is and how it might compare to their competition? Would be curious as their relative efficiencies.
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by RobPfeifer 15y ago
This is similar logic to PE and VC funds who actually look at Multiples of Money rather than IRRs. At the end of the day, turning $100mm into $700mm is meaningful even if timelines differ by a couple years.
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by RobPfeifer 15y ago
Cody, just one note on your website - I couldn't tell at all what Famigo offers without clicking on something. Instead of having "Famigo helps families find and manage mobile games and apps" in a hover-over pop-up, have a similar tagline so
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by RobPfeifer 15y ago
This. The fb platform is fine for small start-ups who don't have any expectation of SLAs, or huge partners like Zynga who drive their profits or traffic. But I'm at a $600m ecommerce company and we've found their platform to be a disaster.
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by RobPfeifer 15y ago
Probably something similar to what's described here: http://bit.ly/qAb7nM Perhaps they've changed their tune, but early on Zynga had a questionable ethical reputation
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by RobPfeifer 15y ago
Would you trust FB with that data? I certainly would not. Nor would I trust ancestry.com.
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by RobPfeifer 15y ago
Thanks - was wondering what class this matched too. Will probably do this instead of the Norvig AI class.
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by RobPfeifer 15y ago
Reminded me of trainspotting: "Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind. Sick Boy, "Blowing It: Deid Dugs" (Chapter 4, Story 3)"
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by RobPfeifer 16y ago
As Sportsguy says, it's all about reps. I'm increasingly impressed but only because I've seen the money put into coaching and seen those guys since they moved to PA. He's learned well, but if your startup grows organically you get to practi
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by RobPfeifer 16y ago
Open doesn't always win - check out Tim Wu's book the Master Switch. It traces the history of telephone, TV, radio, film (and the Internet, though I haven't gotten there yet). Theodore Vail and AT&T essentially created a massive closed
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by RobPfeifer 16y ago
This article seems like bull shit. I mean, have you been to Woodside?