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by anon808 14y ago
"it works". what a destructive attitude. many things 'work'. insider trading and extortion work too, does that mean we can't 'hate' on them? just because something happens doesn't mean it 'should' happen. you filter options through your val
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by anon808 14y ago
I don't think the author is saying the clicks are malicious, just that they are lower 'quality'. Based on the authors experience he seems to be saying the intent of some facebook clickers is different than regular web link/banner clickers.
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by anon808 14y ago
"If you're an insider in Zynga or Facebook, you might have slightly more information than the stock market" What if you're the guy running the entire company? Will this mythical 'market' you keep referring to run your company better than yo
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by anon808 14y ago
I can understand the reasoning if one is an outside investor with no ability to influence the company, but anytime I see active managers selling stock it is a bad sign. They can give any reason they want, but most owner operators will keep
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by anon808 14y ago
minimize? what does that mean, how much? and who recommends? where are these rules written you're talking about? usually people hold onto things they think are valuable and sell those they don't. sometimes those that sell that which they do
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by anon808 14y ago
that is exactly correct. VC's are facilitators, middlemen, and wholesalers, they are not equity holders. Their goal is to move equity. If the 'end-user' of the equity ends up owning a great business, great, if not, makes no difference to
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by anon808 14y ago
"with minimal risk" is it possible the maximal risk they encountered when building github with their own cash helped make the great product github is today? history has shown time and time again if you give someone a long enough rope they
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by anon808 14y ago
"Because we want to be better. We want to build the best products. We want to solve harder problems. We want to make life easier for more people. The experience and resources of Andreessen Horowitz can help us do that." I guess they didn't
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by anon808 14y ago
"I just can't figure out how to do it without losing contact with my friends." easy . . . call them, visit them, email them, write letters to them. you don't need an application to managed personal relationships.
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by anon808 14y ago
google glass reminds me of the segway . . . really cool futuristic idea that just doesn't fit with the way life is lived.
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by anon808 14y ago
Your doing us an injustice by not tearing it apart. Help us, inform us. He may be a rabble rouser prone to hyperbole, but that by itself doesn't mean what he's writing is false. Look past the drama and tell us what's incorrect.
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by anon808 14y ago
I'm not advocating cooperation or cartels, i'm advocating not caring about competition (or cooperation), ignore both. I believe in an open market, and cooperation and cartels destroy that. Focusing on competition is a distraction. I'm say
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by anon808 14y ago
'how would I (as a potential user) know which to pick?' How about which one serves you the best? So you're saying if one of the services with the shittiest product raised $100MM more than the others, gave their product away for free and out
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by anon808 14y ago
No one 'built' this system . . . there was no master architect or group of engineers. The 'system' is just how things are RIGHT NOW, doesn't mean they can't change. Nothing says i have to go along with it, I can do my own thing. I personall
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by anon808 14y ago
It's very difficult to do something for the sake of doing it without focusing on the end, but in reality all we can control is what we do, not the effect of what we do. Reading talebs books completely opened my eyes to our own magnificent
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by anon808 14y ago
Ahhhh yes the famous cash faucet that just needs to be turned on. Why would anyone that could have been making more money not made it before? Growth and profit are not mutually exclusive.
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by anon808 14y ago
I started out my working life as a financial analyst in an investment bank, and that experience led me to the same conclusion. I really believe the only people that should own equity in a company (public or private) are the people that act
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by anon808 14y ago
once YC is public, mutual funds could buy it and then we could invest in those mutual funds to really diversify our exposure.
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by anon808 14y ago
not using this for pr is not talking about who said/didn't say, did/didn't do what. using it for pr is talking about one-side of a two-sided relationship. Dan's 100% correct to tell his listeners the old show they listened to isn't on any
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by anon808 14y ago
public: the show moved, fair game private: what the partners said or didn't say to each other, dynamics of their relationship good taste is to use all public info as pr, bad taste use private info as pr. I listened to dan's special again, s
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by anon808 14y ago
I think this private situation only became public when dan mentioned it? if it truely is private why not have that trump whatever public business expectations there are. if it's private, it's private. my personal taste is not to use priva
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by anon808 14y ago
"Dan Benjamin comes across in this audio clip as a total class act." He definitely comes across as that, but I'm not sure he is. My gut tells me there was more meaning behind this that none of us are owed, creating public content from it ma
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by anon808 14y ago
maybe. for a high profile ipo like this it's also a big marketing event, i think the company and bankers like to price in a decent bump. but looks like now they're stepping in to support the price . . . financially good news for fb, pr-wise
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by anon808 14y ago
"Taxing rich people " I'm guessing you're not implying not taxing rich people entirely? How about taxing all people at the same rate, regardless of how they earn their income? I think that's what the bigger discussion is about.
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by anon808 14y ago
That's 100% correct. Investing by consuming products of companies scales a lot better than invest-betting on startups and financial instruments.
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by anon808 14y ago
I haven't heard anyone with volume saying fb ads work.
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by anon808 14y ago
"This is the same story as Google AdWords back in the day." Not really, adwords pretty much worked from day one, bid for placement was inspired by the goto.com paid search engine model which was minting money back in the 00s if I remember c
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by anon808 14y ago
Let me create an account and link up my favorites mixes ... that'll let me shut down my ghetto attempt mix-list.tumblr.com :)
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by anon808 14y ago
I hope you're going with this where i think you're going with this. This is way beyond essential mixes . . . I haven't come across one good dj mix sharing website out there. Linking to already hosted content is 100% the way to go. Please ke
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by anon808 14y ago
There's a big difference between having programmers on-call and actually having work/fires for the on-call programmers to solve. We only know about one of these for sure from this post.

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