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by ares2012 15y ago
These lists always seem to miss what I consider to be one of the most important elements of a co-founder: You have worked with them before. If you're starting a company with someone else it is absolutely critical you have worked together an
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Apple and Google dominate Sony and Nintendo in Mobile Gaming(blog.flurry.com)
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This is why they invented the word "drivel"
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I'll point out that if everyone took the leap then you would have no one to hire as your business grew. Not everyone can be the founder just like not everyone can be the CEO. As someone who has started companies and worked for others I can
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by ares2012 15y ago
Succeed. As long as things are going well whether or not you are an amateur is irrelevant. For example, Mark Zuckerberg and Andrew Mason would have been called amateurs if their business didn't take off like a rocket and never look back. Ke
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by ares2012 15y ago
Seems like a simple Kanban ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban ) board. I'm not sure why this is new, there are a lot of options for Kanban out there.
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I love the description "LinkedIn 2.0"
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I think the article is best summarized as "Don't let the lack of a co-founder hold you back". No matter what your expertise, the farther you get with your idea on your own the more likely someone will join you. I do think the idea of "learn
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by ares2012 15y ago
The title is a little misleading since they aren't hiring engineers off the street for $1 Million. You have to actually start an interesting company that they then acquire for $1 Million (even if they shut it down). It would be hard to just
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by ares2012 15y ago
I find the idea of a single newspaper hosting a site like WikiLeaks themselves very strange. If the WSJ receives confidential information that is of value but not on a topic they typically write about will the information still see the ligh
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by ares2012 15y ago
Well said.
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That is true, but working at a start up for 2-3 years you will meet all the other employees that work at the start up company. It's those people (not the founders of the existing company) that are fertile ground for starting your own compan
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by ares2012 15y ago
Agreed. It's not consumer internet but I always look at how Colonel Sanders made his mark after he turned 65 as inspiration for the future: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders
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Co-founders are by far the hardest part of starting a venture. Everyone has ideas, everyone has time and most of us have some money to invest in our own projects. Finding a co-founder is something you can't control yourself so it's always t
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by ares2012 15y ago
Hubspot ( http://hubspot.com ) has made a pretty big business out of leadgen, but only for certain vectors.
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by ares2012 15y ago
Armin Van Buuren, Dune, i.e. any electronic trance. The State of Trance ( http://www.astateoftrance.com/ ) is available as a podcast if you want a playlist that rotates every week.
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by ares2012 15y ago
If you ignore the over-arching message about the Federal Reserve, the article is very poignant. This quote sums it all up: " there are 50-years-olds who may never work again." It's sad to imagine working your entire career to build a resume
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by ares2012 15y ago
It's highly unlikely that a new piece of immigration legislation gets passed before the next presidential election, since all of the political horsepower will go into legislation that will look good to voters. Considering that the next pres
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by ares2012 15y ago
Well, creating a web app will give you a larger addressable market and more flexibility in adding features in the future. A downloadable app will let you tap into the billing services offered by the Apple AppStore for Mac and use the native
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by ares2012 15y ago
Very good advice. This is the best suggestion: "As I've said before - the interview is very very honest. Its about you, the whiteboard, and what you can do." In the interviews we do we include a written exercise you have to complete before
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by ares2012 15y ago
Now that he's sold TechCrunch to AOL, I'm not clear why anyone would expect that he would not invest in start up companies. TechCrunch is no longer just him or him and a few bloggers, it's part of a major media organization. If their rules
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by ares2012 15y ago
Sounds like fear mongering. There aren't any terms in there that you won't find on other sites that allow users to post content. The company is protecting itself from misuse in a way that might not have been necessary when the Delicious ser
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by ares2012 15y ago
This statement is so true and so sad: "What's potentially pretty damaging for people is passwords, because people may use the same password for logging into this network that they use for other things" Use different passwords for different
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by ares2012 15y ago
I agree with the article, but I would add that I think most startups need at least 2 advisors. One who is "only a few steps further down the path" and one who "has done it a number of times before". While you might find it easier to relate
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by ares2012 15y ago
Hilarious and absolutely correct. I would add to the list that most people fail to understand global economics and most of the stocks you're going to trade depend on them. If you don't understand half of the game, don't play.
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I don't think it's ever too early to have advisors, which is what I would call them. Especially if the project is in their area of expertise, very few people will turn down the opportunity to be an adviser to a brand new effort if you are t
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by ares2012 15y ago
Having interviewed hundreds of people over the years, when I ask a question like that I'm looking for the following things: 1. What kind of problem do you really enjoy and find interesting? 2. Did you do it because you had to (in a class) o
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Wow, that is friggin awesome! I just lost a while exploring my Twitterverse. Well done.
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I like the concept. It gives normal people a chance to invest in start up companies that might not justify angel or VC investment. My only concern is that your typical person cannot properly evaluate the risk of a start up company (which is
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by ares2012 15y ago
Both funny and poignant. It is interesting to consider how many popular web services use .ly domain names and are hence tied to Libya (albeit far removed).

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