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by anon808 15y ago
and why would anyone want to do business with you knowing your goal is to take advantage of anything you can for your own end? . . . why wouldn't your business partners always be watching their backs. not an efficient way to interact with p
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by anon808 15y ago
because they've sold a large chunk of their equity for cash in the marketplace . . . but of course everyone wants to have their cake and eat it too.
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by anon808 15y ago
why do you want to take advantage of this bubble? why do you want to take advantage of anything other than your own abilities?
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by anon808 15y ago
perfect example of use value vs. exchange value. Instagram has an exchange value of $1B (in FB stock and cash) simply because Facebook chooses to make that exachange . . .poof . . just like that. Instagram also has a use value, which is yet
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by anon808 15y ago
Just because things are (or have been) a certain way, doesn't mean they should be that way. We all get a choice. I do believe though that most social norms are good, not because they're social norms, but because they actually serve people a
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by anon808 15y ago
I don't think the original comment is saying there's something wrong with liking camp, but there's something wrong with people liking camp because they're supposed to like camp. of course we can't look into people's hearts and see if they
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by anon808 15y ago
It sucks, but that's the price of doing business. They chose their customer, and now are (unfortunately) tied to consequences. Same thing happens to building owners who have a crime committed by a tenant, the leased space becomes a crime s
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by anon808 15y ago
does your office environment where you can joke around and have fun include racist humor?
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by anon808 15y ago
why not hate both. everyone has a choice.
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by anon808 15y ago
Knowing that Digg succeeded because a 'giant hype machine' isn't the same as knowing that it would have failed without it.
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by anon808 15y ago
is it a corporate blog, or a personal blog part of the msdn developer community? I honestly don't know, but it doesn't look like a "Microsoft" blog.
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by anon808 15y ago
how about treating users as people, because they are.
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by anon808 15y ago
" It would be impossible to build facebook or google without an advertising based business model," really? just like that . . . why give up so easily? let's throw some intelligence at the problem instead of just assuming it's not possible.
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by anon808 15y ago
don't be demoralized, and don't let others decide how you should run your business or what you should value. if you have a profitable business be happy with your success and build on it. lottery winners happen every day, don't let that ru
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by anon808 15y ago
you said success is a formula, and because you were talking about an exit for an unprofitable company as being a success, it seemed logical to me that you ranked ceo 'brand' value over business profitability. People have value (in general),
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by anon808 15y ago
if it was true, would you admit to it?
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by anon808 15y ago
"Could Sam and his group have $43M in impact for the buyer?" what do you mean by impact? how can this even be measured? "If your "leadership brand" number is high enough, you just about can't lose. " again, what does leadership brand mean?
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I'm Being Followed: How Google and 104 Other Companies Are Tracking Me(m.theatlantic.com)
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by anon808 15y ago
Could it just be that now that they've finished building Basecamp Next they have more time to write?
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by anon808 15y ago
"Companies don't spend through all their money because a VC makes them." Not sure about your experience, but from what I've seen that's exactly the case. I was director of finance of a startup that raised (and burned) $30M+ from several 'ti
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by anon808 15y ago
>how can we make money in a non-destructive, ethical manner I have an answer, provide people with tools that make their lives better. Does the service you're providing actually make people's lives better. And I don't mean does it make t
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by anon808 15y ago
> Isn't this the point of any business? No, you get to decide what the point of the business you work for is. No one else does, you do. There's no rule that says the point of any/every businesses is to get people to part with as much mo
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by anon808 15y ago
The most import part of that apology formula is missing, actually meaning it. Also if the answer to #3 is obvious (ie stop doing what your apologizing for) then one shouldn't have to ask.
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by anon808 15y ago
There are no such things as personal thoughts and corporate thoughts. They're all just thoughts.
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by anon808 15y ago
As I understand, the owners sold a portion of their equity to Bezos. The company didn't raise money from Bezos to fund operations. Big difference.
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by anon808 15y ago
Yup, the free market is a strategy. How it's applied depends on the values of the people participating in that market. A free market of thieves isn't going to result in any good outcome.
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by anon808 15y ago
I did read it; I'll add color to my reply and hope it makes more sense to you. Adwords auction favors the most aggressive marketers some who's successful strategies are considered scams by me and other folks (but maybe not by google for now
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by anon808 15y ago
I think the ultimate point isn't that google is running a scam, but that it's favoring scammers to 'win' their auctions. Facilitating a scam and scamming aren't the same, but they're both not something I would want to be a part of.
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by anon808 15y ago
Agreed, that's the incentive. Now, whats you're opinion of that incentive? Do you think its something you'd personally like to see more or less of?
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by anon808 15y ago
maybe thats true in some cases for steve jobs, but that doesn't have to be true for you. there are no rules. start a company where people would go the length of the world making sure that they accomplished every minute detail of what you h

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