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Just Manic Enough: Seeking Perfect Entrepreneurs(nytimes.com)
2 points by alexwestholm 16y ago|1 comments
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
Great perspective. I'd shy away from institutionalized evaluation of students in favor of self-evaluation, though. I think the various systems in place in the EU where people are funnelled into track A, B or C put needless constraints on pe
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
It comes with PDFs of the slides used in the lectures. Presumably it's meant to mimic a classroom lecture. While I'm sure screencasts would be preferable, I don't see a huge problem with doing this.
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
I think part of what's so scary about institutional investors failing to understand the means by which their investments produce returns is that their very job is to act as a proxy for those that don't understand the investments. That is to
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
For those concerned about privacy, it's buried on their How It Works page. I'd strongly suggest to the company that such info might be worth placing on the front page. According to the site, the Genetics Information Nondiscrimination Act co
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
Is it really that astonishing, given that kids are all but pushed through 'til they get "their" BA? Degrees are used as a quick proxy for minimum competency, right? Well, if our highschools act as little more than babysitting systems that p
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
That's a terrible situation. I'm very sorry for your loss. My father has conveyed to me some enormously valuable things over the years. When his time comes, I think a major part of dealing with it, for me, will be both preserving these thin
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
"If they don't already know everything then they are idiots that you want nothing to do with." Well, why should a startup want anything to do with someone who needs training? A startup needs to get as much as possible out of its resources,
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
Echo Glengarry Glen Ross ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104348/ ). The tagline, "A story for everyone who works for a living" pretty much sums it up. For me, no other movie has done such a good job of capturing the horror of the workaday gr
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
This is a great list of the essentials. Without a liquidation preference, you can lose while the founders win; without the ability to participate pro-rata in future rounds, you can't control your exposure to dilution; and without a board se
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
To me, the title is misleading. This post seems to be more about positioning a product in a way that users understand versus the general usefulness of hubris or humility in relation to products. While poor positioning might be evidence of h
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
You say you can't engage with your local community because you're not there, but what about online? You're participating in the HN community, which a) takes time, and b) may very well include others in that area. Branching out from here to
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
Quite likely. I'm not trying to say that this phenomenon is a bad thing (neither is Becker, really), merely that it's a way to look at an individual's motivations. If you accept the premise, then your conclusion is absolutely right. Becker'
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
This post brings up the connection between desire for achievement and mortality. The book "The Denial of Death" by Ernest Becker is an excellent perspective on this phenomenon. The central premise of the book is that, in order to feel comfo
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
I'm curious to hear more about what you learned from the offer, aside from the emotional repercussions of putting a price on your baby. Going forward, do you intend to set a minimum threshold above which you'll sell the company? (You say yo
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
Not central to the authors point, but I think surfing, and exercise like it (mountain biking, for instance) are superior to simply hitting the treadmill. Getting out into nature and getting some vitamin D is a whole lot better than doing th
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
I've been wanting to sit down with Let My People Go Surfing for a while now. How is it?
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
I started coding professionally at 15 (by that I mean a real job making real money for a real, now publicly held, company). I certainly agree that "kids" have value, but I think there's a concern that rarely gets addressed in these articles
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
Mercurial is another feature rich DVCS. Joel Spolsky has done an excellent job of providing a similar beginner-friendly introduction at http://hginit.com . It's short, easy to understand, and pretty funny in places.
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
Excellent deck. Brevity is definitely key. However, the first thing that came to my mind after finishing the post was: what about competitors? You seem to mention server utilization in reference to a competitor at the bottom right of slide
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What about business savvy tech co-founders?(alexwestholm.com)
3 points by alexwestholm 16y ago|0 comments