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by anjc 11y ago
This article seems a little tech-centric. Products don't tend to flourish based purely on technical merit, and there could be many reasons why that product has thrived other than network effects, e.g. aggressive pricing strategies, goo
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by anjc 11y ago
Article title sounds like somebody's attempt at a new MVP/PMF paradigm
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by anjc 11y ago
Yeah I saw this on Reddit too. I'm not sure what the point of the article is. It references Ries in passing as if it's only vaguely relevant, and proceeds to say precisely what Ries said 10 years ago in the first few pages of prob
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by anjc 11y ago
I'll be extremely disappointed if this type of content starts to get airtime on HN. Save it for Reddit. Ridiculous.
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by anjc 11y ago
It's the opposite surely. Some of the companies and concepts that seem to survive in SF are considered barmey in other wealthy western cities. Startups whose customers are other startups..
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by anjc 11y ago
It might do more than just deflate pressure a little...
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by anjc 11y ago
Agreed OP, the advances that Windows 8.1 and Metro made were truly amazing.
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by anjc 11y ago
I'd like some solid examples of what companies confirmed perceptions of competitors were in the same vertical, versus the reality. Because even the author references competency-based views of competitive advantage, but for some reason
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by anjc 11y ago
Cool guy who influenced entertainment and technology greatly. Everyone should read Masters of Doom.
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by anjc 11y ago
To be more pedantic, if you're talking about gross profit, it can be counted before wages, depending on the attributes of the wage.
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by anjc 11y ago
> He's saying that people who had overcome institutional racism are better. He specifically says 'white'
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by anjc 11y ago
This is a very whiny article, and I find it funny that by the end of an article filled with the sentiment that racism in cooking is bad, that white people are just as capable, he finishes off by effectively saying that white people are bett
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by anjc 11y ago
> I read stories like this, and I wonder: does washing rice for 3 years really make your sushi that much better? It's tutelage and discipline. Someone who hasn't worked in a busy kitchen wouldn't understand how much ment
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by anjc 11y ago
I think you sum it up in your first sentence: an MBA involves the study of the discipline of business. It's distinct from the practice of actually running a business, and the courses/classes are almost always highly theoretical
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by anjc 11y ago
I can't agree on your interpretation of an MBA point of view, but I will say that it does seem to be the most prevalent interpretation. Thinking solely about the bottom line could be the result of a twisted grounding in accounting, but
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by anjc 11y ago
It confuses me endlessly that MBAs should be so misunderstood by so many people, it being suggested that they are only good for networking, that people with MBAs are cold and evil, and so on. They're simply a course which teach you the
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by anjc 11y ago
I'd be surprised if 0.001% of art projects are related to Kickstarter in any way, or even if 0.001% of artists have even heard of Kickstarter. Maybe in SV it's different.
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by anjc 11y ago
Needs more...pop. And maybe <blink>
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by anjc 11y ago
I can't believe people are actually taking this ridiculous wealth-centric comment seriously. You've spent too much time in tech/online man, spend some time in the real world.
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by anjc 11y ago
27 days eh...? Temptation rising...
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by anjc 11y ago
It's less ambiguous than this even. "Do you record my conversations?" "No, but we do listen to them sometimes"
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by anjc 11y ago
Well, yeah. That's what the current bubble is based upon, private equity speculation. It should be pointed out, though, that you can't really analyse many of these startups by looking at their income statements in this fashion, be
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by anjc 11y ago
Bizarre. I've replaced an MBP, iPad, and desktop PC, with my SP3. I've never heard anybody think of it as a "consumption" device. It's the most useful/productive piece of tech I've ever bought. >The s
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by anjc 11y ago
Yes! I've heard this story. The supposed black-box of consumer buying-behaviour is weird indeed.
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by anjc 11y ago
I think it's so weird that cooking robots don't exist. Most tasks that you perform to cook are repetitive and mostly foolproof, and I say this as someone who trained as a cook. Certain things maybe can't be automated, like se
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by anjc 11y ago
Agh I wish people would either read some of Christensen's work, or even the basic Wikipedia article, or else stop using the word 'disruptive' in this context. It's diluting a concept which used to have a very specific me
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by anjc 11y ago
Because sometimes these developments are sensible and change industry "best practice". I cringe terribly thinking back on some of the code I've written using methods which were acceptable at the time, and if I didn't kee
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by anjc 11y ago
Do you not find that you spend far more time now wrangling with new implementations of new frameworks for new concepts, only to discover later that you should've researched more, because you have a problem which an even newer implement
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by anjc 11y ago
I hate modern Web dev so much.
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by anjc 11y ago
I could have saved you some effort. By "computer" I meant "personal computer". I presume that everybody here would understand that I didn't mean "device which can compute", i.e. all servers, cash registers

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