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It's worthwhile to note that the percentage of down-round financings goes up pretty steeply as the number of previous funding rounds increases, especially in the last few quarters. My interpretation: get all the money you need to get to pro
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The time-tested market solution to this problem seems to be that a bunch of 1337 hackers create a solid open-source package that you can download for free, then an author comes along, writes a thorough set of documentation for it, and publi
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17y ago
That sucking sound you hear is a day of productive programming being lost forever to Twitter ... ;)
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I think I understand why. If you DON'T scan the discs every day, then you need to organize them in some fashion so that they could be picked from the shelves when an order comes in. If you DO scan them every day, then they can just go on th
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17y ago
I bet many marketing departments would be happy to switch to CPC, even if it increases costs, because they are paying for results, not traffic. From Google's perspective, this also gets them out of the business of auditing clicks. Giving t
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17y ago
As the comments on the original article mention, Google seems to be answering two different questions with geolocation. The first is which of their localized web sites to display. The second is which language to display that site in. Def
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The viability of the MVP approach would seem to depend very much on things like the potential market size, required customer investment, and competitive landscape. I can see how this works well for Web 2.0 software-as-a-service start-ups: n
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I would recommend that you start with a provisional patent application, before disclosing any information to potential partners. A provisional application (which exists only in the USA, to my knowledge) is essentially a placeholder, giving
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The statutory damages for copyright infringement were put into place when peer-to-peer infringement was unimaginable. They were clearly intended to dissuade businesses from engaging in wholesale copyright infringement for profit, say by se
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The part of this article that concerned me is the rapid bid/cancel scheme. Traditionally, the cost of finding out about price elasticity in the market is that you have to sell/buy some product and see how the market responds. This kind of
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This really hit home! Having transitioned from maker to manager over the past couple of years, I was just commenting to a co-worker yesterday that I find it almost impossible to finish the maker-like tasks on my to-do list (mostly writing