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by aresant 12y ago
Thank you for putting that quote into context for me - have always enjoyed it, never saw quite so good an example. In Southern California right now we're living this with regard to Oculus / Virtual Reality. Oculus being born here
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by aresant 12y ago
"If [founder and CEO of multi-billion dollar startup] from Stripe is watching the thread . . ."
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by aresant 12y ago
I am amused that to cut through the noise the author - a former Developmental Biology graduate student, who went on to found a successful bio-tech startup, who presently lectures at Stanford and is a partner in one of the premier VC's
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by aresant 12y ago
Technology likes this makes me wonder how long of a shelf-life video "evidence" has. Or perhaps these same algos will also provide utility in detecting / decoding "fakes", sort of like edge-tracking / error lev
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by aresant 12y ago
"[Yahoo] will have raised nearly $8.3 billion through the offering" If I'm reading that right Yahoo stands to triple their cash position almost overnight which today stands at around $4b.(1) Given Marissa Meyer's appetit
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by aresant 12y ago
"Minecraft is digital Lego . . . We only wish we had invented it." - Lego's marketing director. (1) I think that's an interesting quote to understand both the generational appeal of Minecraft and why the deal makes sense
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by aresant 12y ago
I completely agreed with you in the weeks following the Facebook acquisition. BUT in the months now following my opinion has changed. There remains a vibrant and resilient ecosystem of devs working on amazing homebrew stuff that everybody
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by aresant 12y ago
I loved seeing VR on this list as an Oculus enthusiast. The http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus , http://www.reddit.com/r/oculusdev/ , and https://developer.oculusvr.com/ are jam pa
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by aresant 12y ago
I had a similar appreciation reading this that I felt for the original iPhone tear-aparts by ifixit and their brethren. EG - looking at a truly innovative use of existing technologies pushed to their limit and engineered to a sum greater th
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by aresant 12y ago
MixPanel's branding and the design consistency they achieve is best in class. I always know when I'm on a MixPanel product page / site - playful, colorful, professional. Just throwing some props out at Mason Yarnell who - I a
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by aresant 12y ago
Here's a business case for how this could be useful and why I'm going to try it. I operate a string of ~60 local businesses that have physical storefronts. On average each store has 5 local competitors. Our customers are VERY pric
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by aresant 12y ago
Key from one of the comments "It’s not too late if you still have the encrypted files, as I suspect many people do, hoping that someday a program like this would come along." That is awesome. I'm sure a large percentage of pe
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by aresant 12y ago
What I love about this post as a marketer is how Zen Magnets positions themselves as being the only 1 of 3 companies in this space to take a stand. When a quick search shows many, many alternatives - a cursory list: http://www.ma
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by aresant 12y ago
Makes perfect sense as a tertiary revenue model given the success of doge and bitcoin tipping.
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by aresant 12y ago
The most daunting part of building a custom computer is usually validation of the component quality and, more importantly, how they'll wind up working together. A rating / review of component selection by power-users is all that&#
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by aresant 12y ago
You may be excited to learn about Lucas Pope (Papers Please) starting on a new 3D / B&W dithered game here: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.0
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by aresant 12y ago
Can you begin to imagine how much Kevin Rose hates that article "How this kid made $60 million in 18 months."? Which of course was utter bullshit and based on Digg's valuation being $300m+ The Oregon Live's thesis seems
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by aresant 12y ago
"Unlimited Free Photo Storage" is huge. I would estimate that 80% of my current DropBox capacity is photos alone. I hope Amazon nails this and forces Apple & DropBox to respond.
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by aresant 12y ago
"Building a product for the Internet is now the easy part. Getting people to understand the product and use it is the hard part." This feels like a meta-Dilbert joke about how business guys perceive technology & development. A
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by aresant 12y ago
This article feels sensational, but I would say accurately reflects a large portion of the communities feelings. Great accompaniment is from Peter Todd (Coinkite adviser, respected dev) who announced this AM he is selling 50% of his holding
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by aresant 12y ago
In the biotech space there exists a system called "patentleft" which theoretically provides royalty-free licensing of patents with the stipulation that any derivative works / improvements also be licensed under the same terms
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by aresant 12y ago
Here is the actual Cease & Desist: http://recode.net/2014/06/05/verizon-threatens-netflix-with-...
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by aresant 12y ago
"direct statistical correlation between less fields and the amount of chargebacks received" Spot on and completely agreed. But in my experience getting that CC at nearly any cost, even @ the end of a long sales process, delivers n
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by aresant 12y ago
Very cool experiment but as others have pointed out it's tough to beat simplicity from a conversion perspective. Example Amazon: http://i.imgur.com/aK8K4UY.png?1 Single name on card field Card # Dropdown for EXP Examp
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by aresant 12y ago
Congrats to Brad and the team - well deserved for bringing a beautiful UX and simplified system to retargeting on social (first anyways)
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by aresant 12y ago
I bought some stuff around Christmas and then got spammed out of love with them. I had no idea that they had made another pivot from the flash-sales site I signed up for. Checking out their current homepage and seeing them "reimaging&q
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by aresant 12y ago
Thank you for the well researched and thoughtful post on the potential "educational" benefit of Osmo. As a parent I like to think that the top of my list of buying qualifications be that something is educational and enriching. But
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by aresant 12y ago
Not to mention the likely minimum 20% down payment of ~135,000 (20% of the median 679,800).
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by aresant 12y ago
From a conversion rate optimization perspective you guys should double-down on your "keep it simple" mantra. The homepage is gorgeous, and it looks exactly like what I WANT. However, in my experience with CRO it's not exactly
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by aresant 12y ago
The Chinese govt has been building ghost cities by the tens of billions to pad GDP over the past decade. This train seems like a similarly colossal waste of money that could serve the same GDP purpose while building something of massive nov

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