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by alizaki 2mo ago
Indeed. What a deep cut
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by alizaki 2mo ago
His PC magazine column was the first thing I read when I was able to get hold of old PC Magazines. Even in the fast cycle of PCs in the 90s, you could learn something reading yesterdays newspaper from his columns. RIP
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by alizaki 2mo ago
There is no “Chinese LLM”. Each “lab” is distinct and their models behavior is as unique as those from OpenAI and Anthropic
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by alizaki 9y ago
I'm not sure if identifying pain is the opposite of creating need. The pain here was fast foods need for cheap fish that has a reliable supply. The need was created when he was able to convince these companies that his fish supply chai
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Building New Products Inside High-Growth Startups: The “Moonshots” Story(medium.com)
1 points by alizaki 9y ago|0 comments
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by alizaki 11y ago
the like/share/repin/rate/review buttons are a form of natural curation built into the fabric of the social web.
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by alizaki 12y ago
A work/travel-program for knowledge professionals to travel the world and work a set number of hours a week on projects to pay their way. Air tickets, budget, airbnbs/apartments all paid for. Then you resell services to clients. Y
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by alizaki 12y ago
the irs would hit any partners you use to transfer funds very quickly with deep audits at the very minimum if this gets even a little traction, i'd think
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by alizaki 12y ago
This is a bridge round led by an outside investor. Not uncommon, especially between Series A and B. I don't get much of the hard decision here, seems pretty common. I do appreciate her honesty though.
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by alizaki 12y ago
The problem with such advice is that some of it is always right. But you just don't which part. And you can't do it all.
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by alizaki 13y ago
You're probably right, FB prices went up for Zynga more so than others because they saturated their market (which just took longer cause it was bigger). However, anecdotally, I've seen FB prices rise 25 - 35% over the last 18 months.
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by alizaki 13y ago
I think this misses the point entirely. Zynga is not failing because their products are cheap to recreate. Plenty of companies, in tech and beyond, have easily recreatable products but do just fine. Zynga is "failing" (if you can call it th
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by alizaki 13y ago
A lot more tech companies are started now than maybe, 3 years ago. Also, it takes companies time to reach $100M in revenue.
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Manufacturing Luck(zakimahomed.com)
1 points by alizaki 14y ago|0 comments
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by alizaki 14y ago
I always wondered why everything related to my computing devices seems to follow some variation of Moores law but the battery. This explains it.
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by alizaki 14y ago
I think a fundamental assumption in this article is flawed: "The most popular games are still pretty simple, but mid-core games like strategy simulator War Commander are gaining steam. Some people who used to be content clicking FarmVille c
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by alizaki 14y ago
Shoedazzle pioneered this but had to get rid of the subscription and flip to a per-item charge because of scam complains.
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by alizaki 14y ago
Red Herring used to be a major tech magazine back in the day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Herring_(magazine)
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by alizaki 14y ago
Why does Apple warn users that they must be at least 17 to download a browser. Or for that matter say that Axis may contain: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
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It’s About Delight, Stupid(zakimahomed.com)
4 points by alizaki 14y ago|0 comments
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Your first 50 (paying) customers are always the hardest (A story)(zakimahomed.com)
7 points by alizaki 14y ago|1 comments
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Here's why there won't be another Silicon Valley (but that's ok)(zakimahomed.posterous.com)
2 points by alizaki 14y ago|0 comments
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by alizaki 15y ago
This is way too generic. There can be no one best place for entrepreneurs because the natural ideal location is where your customers are (as a startup, you'll more often than not tend to have real customers in one specific geography first).
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by alizaki 15y ago
Wrong. Social games are not regular media. What is a media company? Media companies deal in information - it could be the news, analysis, up-to-the-second stock information or celebrity photographs. Media companies battle comodotization and
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by alizaki 15y ago
hear hear
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by alizaki 15y ago
I think news sites think of Most Popular, Most Emailed, etc as ways to generate more pageviews, which is basically revenue. They're not based off any personal relevance to the user. Which is why in the authors model of things, they can be d
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by alizaki 15y ago
RIM needs to become a services company and focus on what they did best - enterprise class connectivity on the go. Take your set of tools and apps across devices - and email is just one of the many things they can offer. IT Depts dont really
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(Almost) Zero to 'Rockstar' in 6 months: The Challenge
4 points by alizaki 15y ago|6 comments
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by alizaki 15y ago
When I was still in college a few years ago, I fell for this on a trip to Guangzhou. I believe those were supposedly 8GB flash drives with 32MB of real memory, selling for less than 5 bucks each. Being the immaculate hustler I am, I bought
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by alizaki 16y ago
I will have to abstain here, just because there is nobody who can maintain a neutral reaction with all thats written. I bet half the people here havent even tried the app.

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