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by arnoldwh 14y ago
Wow. I'm sure he's been having one of the worst periods of his life right now. Now that he's out of the Yahoo investor spotlight, I hope he talks about this ordeal from his point of view. I'd love to hear it. The comp sci degree really
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No, I won't be your business co-founder(arnoldhur.tumblr.com)
14 points by arnoldwh 14y ago|2 comments
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by arnoldwh 14y ago
Ha, you inspired me to write this: "No I won't Be Your Business Co-Founder" http://arnoldhur.tumblr.com/post/22794390635/no-i-wont-be-yo...
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
I don't feel any pity for this guy from a personal point of view, and I can only hope he learns a lesson because of this instead of going down a darker path of more hate. However, I still have real issues and concerns with him being jailed
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
What I thought could be a step in the right direction was Gilt's partnership with GQ. I envisioned a GQ magazine that was actually interactive, meaning each piece of clothing worn could be tagged with a link to purchase said piece of cloth
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
I agree. You try to do everything because you realize you've done so little during the time you've had. I guess that's the normal way of being though. It seems like it is every child's fate to not appreciate their parents enough until it
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
Spot on. My favorite moments are when the person joining an in person meeting via conference call tells everybody that they can't hear. Usually, everyone just looks around awkwardly and somehow silently agrees to ignore that person.
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
Awesome. Now this is biz-dev: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB03UBYpOFk
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
Another major issue is that they were late to the party with their digital cameras. Once all smartphones had decent cameras, the niche they carved in easy to use snapshooter cameras became displaced while those companies that focused on di
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
Before you lose any more nights losing sleep about this idea you have and its third or fourth iteration, maybe you should just release the idea in its original form and see how people react. I'm sure your idea is great, but I worry that it
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
Agree. So many companies don't act like grown-ups and just try to cover up the problem. Still, it's going to be pretty tough getting your average customer back who hears they've been "hacked" and are afraid to create a new password. Not t
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
Strange article. Not much content about what Buffet actually thinks and it goes onto some sort of political diatribe against Mitt Romney. In my opinion PE shops fill a different sort of gap. Whereas Buffet benefits by buying a company tha
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
Agree that a basic test can be useful, but I think two points need to be made here. 1. It falls on the interviewer to be helpful and clear enough to help a candidate understand what is being asked. Often, a brainteaser of any sort explaine
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
I think I'd put what Foursquare has done well/not done well into three buckets: 1. Virality - Highly viral product that got shared enough to the point that almost everyone knows about it (in current target demographic). Throw up that Miss
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
I live across the street from this, and I've always wondered what these guys did. Great to read their story, and I've got to say it definitely takes guts to put yourself out there day in and day out (especially right now when it's 14 degre
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IMHO: Occupy Wall Street was Overdue(arnoldhur.tumblr.com)
4 points by arnoldwh 15y ago|1 comments
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
Ah! Perfect example then. Shouldn't have generalized. I hate to pull this card, but you also have to really wonder if people would be "annoyed" as much if it were cute little suburban girl scouts selling the candy instead of a dude named
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
No link. They talked about it at the NYC YC event. They also talked about bootstrapping by working out of a Starbucks and getting free refills for the entire day. Pretty cool stuff. Let me ask you a quick question - what do you think abo
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
ha - seriously..I really don't understand this at all. Why is it ok to go door to door peddling a start-up that will fail 90% of the time, but not ok to sell a candy that will satisfy 100% of the time :)
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
Don't knock the hustle. I remember hearing about how GrubWithUs started by inserting flyers inside the free morning daily newsletters in subways (illegally) - people applauded at how "scrappy" this great startup was. Setting up lemonade s
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
I think I just found our new marketing campaign. A CPA of a bottle + a handwritten note sounds like a good deal to me.
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
In general, I question the "network effect" and how strong it really is here in this industry. People always say that in an ideal world you'd have only one provider for streaming movies, but I actually see this going the other way...as in m
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
I don't think the author gets how markets work. Investors are much more focused much more on macro factors (e.g. the state of the EU) than micro ones (e.g. Blackberry's servers being down in the middle east). The S&P was up 3.4%, and w
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
Samsung has been putting some impressive gadgets out, and they seem to finally be "getting it." What's interesting is just how large that company is and how much control they can have over each individual component...would be interesting t
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
I never understood why they would let a reality tv show cover TechStars. The problem I see is that you have misaligned incentives. From what I know of Techstars, their goal is to help these entrepreneurs through what is probably one of th
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Gilt City Acquires Upscale Private Dining Booking Engine DinePrivate.com(dailydealmedia.com)
1 points by arnoldwh 15y ago|0 comments
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
My question is why is Opentable stock down so much on this news? How serious is Google about getting into reservations? If this is anything like what they did in NFC payments space with MasterCard, they'll likely just try and ride Opentab
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
Sad day..I think I must have watched his stanford commencement speech at least a dozen times. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc&feature=youtu...
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by arnoldwh 15y ago
I think the author misses the point that lower prices can actually be an incredible strategic advantage as long as you have the business model that supports it. You only need to look at a business model like ikea or wal-mart to see this in