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Average clouds weigh 200K+ lbs; Hurricanes: 108 Billion lbs(npr.org)
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It invigorates you like none other. Steve Jobs is known for religious-like energy in his actions, and helping out with programs that make a difference, even if they're secular creates that level of commitment and energy. It's exciting.
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I help with a youth community center. Our "big project" is a weekly funtime/dinner where we pick up kids from the Section 8 housing complexes and take them to the center. We get food donations from Panera Bread (great organization) to send
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by aspir 16y ago
I think a great deal of Facebook's recent, and coming, success is not just that Sheryl Sandberg was brought on, but when she was brought on. They allude to the rapid growth that Facebook has seen lately, but Mark Zuckerberg may not have bee
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by aspir 16y ago
It sometimes seem as though these magazines are outrageous and worthless. All the content is typically big ticket spending and dating supermodels. But, they sell and do very well. It says a great deal about the male psychology and how to po
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by aspir 16y ago
That's a tough job. I'd start by pumping all brand promotion efforts away from Yahoo itself, into the various Yahoo Sites (finance, games, etc.) and away from search. Yahoo is so established in search, that it isn't necessary to promote tha
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by aspir 16y ago
What I meant with that last comment was that in a setting like Disrupt, you are exactly what your audience thinks you are during a pitch, and an "x of y" description can leave the incorrect first impression that you are "me too" opportunity
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by aspir 16y ago
Unless you stop trying to be someone else, and start trying to the best "you" you can be, you're not a novel opportunity.
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$25,000 Print Marketing Algorithm Challenge(hearstchallenge.com)
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Climate change research still rejected by legislators(spectrum.ieee.org)
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No one should buy Skype right now. They're main service is offered for free by Google right now. Also, as a company, they're undergoing a forced IPO from the investors who took the company from eBay (who was quick to divest to begin with).
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These are not unlike the carpetbaggers and traveling salesmen of the wild west days. People are always selling, and people are always buying.
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TED: Sources of good ideas(ted.com)
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As soon as you run out of the ability to do an aspect of product or business development, that's when you need a qualified partner on board. Or, if there is a job that you simply do not want to do, you may want to bring on someone passionat
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I think it is because there are so many idiosyncratic differences in international cultures and the US, that it may not be worth the risk for a startup to expand abroad. For example, I wouldn't know the first thing about how to start doing
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by aspir 16y ago
How often do those situations happen (ie- take money from a low quality individual or close the doors)? Startup sucess rattes are very low as a whole, so it seems as if there may be a culture of "vulture" investors in SV to prey on entrepre
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by aspir 16y ago
I'm in the same boat as you. I like to have fun at work, but that's mostly because I want to work where my tasks are rewarding. Fun people also add to the mix of course. But there is a limit; sometimes you have to get stuff done. That's whe
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If you put a hot dog in the collider, will you get little smokies from the spallation process? I think I just solved world hunger guys...
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Donkey Kong (arcade version) is still the only game that, in my opinion serves as a true metric of core gaming skills (tenacity, patience, hand-eye, etc) New games won't ever come close to that era in regards to sheer difficulty
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by aspir 16y ago
Pocketknives are always good. But how old are you thinking? Personally, I'd stick with a pocketknife regardless of age. Or a lighter.
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by aspir 16y ago
If HN starts to redesign for aesthetics, it will be a slippery slope before HN starts catering to a much larger populous than it should. HN is about hackers and entrepreneurs, and it delivers news clearly and cleanly. As for the back end of
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Ask HN: Non-tech news
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Couldn't agree more. Data flows down the path of least resistance, and you can't unshift the paradigm that downloading video has started. Most in the TV industry should be shaking in their boots right now. Or innovating- but cable TV really
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by aspir 16y ago
I gave you some of my karma :) But in all reality, there is some truth to this post. Gaming this site has become an artform- not unlike prep school kissass networking. Can't really blame everyone though; getting into YC is serious business.
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by aspir 16y ago
Whether Arrington was right or wrong, there's probably some truth that angels hate YC. It's based on the whole premise that VC's and angels aren't all their cracked up to be. It would make sense that these "superangel" gatherings would disc
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The hard part is: how do you get it? Customer service, quality products, an extrinsically motivated vision? Its probably something not able to be determined in a forum.
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It depends on the time necessary to develop it in my opinion. If you could spend a rigorous 7-14 days (assuming 10+ hr days) and get the UI done well, then do it. If it would need longer to branstorm and completely dream up a UI for the pro
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This type of mentality is the reason that I stopped halfway between my HBS 2+2 application when I was able to apply. MBA culture is that of stagnant, tepid growth with a fortune 500 company. I was attracted to business from a social science
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by aspir 16y ago
This is possibly the best "don't get into startup in any form unless you're designed for it" article I've ever seen. I've known a lot of people who want to either own a restaurant, or open their own web design firm, or do something entrepre
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by aspir 16y ago
C- Everyone in a smaller company will ultimately have to sell the products, the vision, or the job at some point. Quality social skills count. They may end up being a pain to work with later as well.

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