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by abossy 17y ago
I would like to know this as well. He is clearly an insider NOW. I would imagine few successful entrepreneurs start out this way.
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Everything You Wanted To Know About Startup Building But Were Afraid To Ask(vimeo.com)
2 points by abossy 17y ago|1 comments
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by abossy 17y ago
I'm gonna go ahead and suggest the opposite: keep the news as is, but reduce the textual noise. That is, remove the tld, "upvote," submitter, etc. and only show them on mouseover. These are all distractions from the important content, the a
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by abossy 17y ago
They benefit from the scalability of the Web, so I would consider them a Web startup.
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by abossy 17y ago
Newsflash: It IS possible for Web startups to generate revenue.
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by abossy 17y ago
There was a recent discussion in the econoblogosphere that provides statistical evidence to back up jsankey's argument: Initial post: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/08/least-surprising-corr... Response: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.
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by abossy 17y ago
We have cars that drive themselves!
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by abossy 17y ago
The idea is that they're acting against a "tyrant."
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DailyBurn Announces FoodScanner, iPhone Diet-Tracking Software via Tim Ferriss(fourhourworkweek.com)
1 points by abossy 17y ago|0 comments
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by abossy 17y ago
I recently quit my job at IBM, and there are two more important, albeit unwritten, tenets: 1) Getting manager approval is next to impossible. A friend of mine that's a tech writer was unable to obtain one in the time I was there (approxim
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by abossy 17y ago
Hilarious. The guy asking that question is a very close friend of mine and I've never stopped giving him crap about it.
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by abossy 17y ago
> Mint's growth didn't really impress me either. Wow - if Mint's growth doesn't impress you, then what has? I felt their timing couldn't have been better. Their product matured as a recession hit and demand for money-saving financial se
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by abossy 17y ago
Five rounds of funding totaling $31.8M: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/mint .
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by abossy 17y ago
When your entire world becomes immersed in startup life, these types of events grow to paramount importance in the minds of entrepreneurs, often to unrealistic levels. It's the same reason an entrepreneur broke into Arrington's house to get
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by abossy 17y ago
How does Android allow it?
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by abossy 17y ago
YCombinator compete among themselves for the attention of the investors to which they present. Launching early and gaining users gives you an edge up on the competition. I would imagine this batch of YC companies (24, bigger than ever befor
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by abossy 17y ago
I know Nostrademons in person, who was recently hired by Google, and I can vouch that he does care, is extremely smart, and isn't a slimy salesman. Though it's getting larger, and hence more bureaucratic (from what I've heard on the outside
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by abossy 17y ago
Number two never worked for me. Either I must have been doing something wrong, or the classes were not structured in a way which one could do this efficiently. I often found I would waste my time reading fluff content that was never pertine
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by abossy 17y ago
Dane and Andrew: Congrats on launching!
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by abossy 17y ago
You know that the talent is what produces the tech, right? Sheesh.
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by abossy 17y ago
We need one for Palo Alto, too!
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by abossy 17y ago
> That model is a historical accident, not a law of nature. Beautifully stated! This begs the question, how then are humans most productive, by nature? If we can model our workforce around a higher level of productivity, then we can red
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by abossy 17y ago
I absolutely agree. I probably over-simplified for the sake of brevity. The world isn't ready to move away from 9-to-5. But a whole lot of new workers are coming into the workforce that seek the alternative lifestyle described in the blog p
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by abossy 17y ago
Content Management in the Information Management division.
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The Funemployment Phenomenon(adambossy.com)
24 points by abossy 17y ago|19 comments
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by abossy 17y ago
Quit my job at IBM Software Group last Friday. Woooooo!
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by abossy 17y ago
Thanks for the very informative reply. I wish I could upvote twice!
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by abossy 17y ago
Excuse my ignorance, since I'm not too knowledgeable about the photo sharing space, but why is YC funding so many of these sites (by so many, I mean two: Divvyshot and Picurio)? What's wrong with Flickr/Picasa/Facebook?
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Locate NYC Subway Stations Using Augmented Reality On Your iPhone(businessinsider.com)
1 points by abossy 17y ago|0 comments
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by abossy 17y ago
Heh. Bill Gates said something similar about 640k of RAM once. There's certainly enough users to fill up that capacity. Why wouldn't it be possible?

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