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by aspir 16y ago
At the risk of sounding foolish, there is some truth to "keeping at it." Check out airBnB's talk startup school; you guys seem to be in a similar place as they were a year or so ago. According to you, you're nearly complete with development
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by aspir 16y ago
You've probably put this on your list already, but the beta value always works for me when just looking at price alone. But for value investing, I try to do as much analysis of the business model, recent initiatives and the top execs as pos
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by aspir 16y ago
You can supplement that video with Courage Wolf: http://www.iggdawg.com/pics/misc/chew_it.jpg This wolf went on to become the alpha pack leader, not unlike Al Franken.
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I'd like to have been a fly on the wall for these infamous board meetings where Jobs and Sculley began to move apart. There were probably more idiosyncratic lessons there than any of the biographies or interviews lead on.
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by aspir 16y ago
I'm not a J.D., but I think you're going down a legal path that can't be taken. It seems very weak from a legal standpoint that anything not approved but a judge or JP in a courtroom setting would be binding. Since your users already have t
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by aspir 16y ago
Why is evapotranspiration in quotations? It's the accepted scientific terminology.
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by aspir 16y ago
Norman, Oklahoma (Monthly) Rent, 1 room- 250 Utilities- 60 Gas- 2.50/gal Groceries- 150-200/month (depending on ramen to steak ratio) Entry Level Programming: $3500/month
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by aspir 16y ago
"Extract" is a great manufacturing/blue collar work movie. It's also a Mike Judge (Office Space) movie, so it is quite hilarious.
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by aspir 16y ago
Getting bought out by competition is how most startups exit. I wouldn't call it shady- unless you didn't want to do so (then you're just turning your back on your own beliefs). People do it all the time - its how entrepreneurs become serial
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by aspir 16y ago
I live in Oklahoma and I live the good life for less than $900/month according to Mint. Granted I have 3 roommates, but we have a huge place. I walk to work though, so that may be a factor. I'm also a stingy SOB. It's cool to know that I co
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by aspir 16y ago
This article means a great deal to me. It's good to see I wasn't alone. I was lucky in high school, because our school wrestling coach saw the rage I carried and convinced me to come out for the team. I lost 30 lbs the first year and got th
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by aspir 16y ago
Fun fact 2: Gene wasn't the frontman, Paul Stanley was. :) Fun fact 3: I'm submitting for dishonorable discharge from the KISS army because of this article :(
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by aspir 16y ago
There may be some truth to the "preventing the next google argument," but I have two opinions: 1) From an entrepreneurship standpoint, who cares. $50 million is a lot of cash. When Mint was sold, the VC's were critical about selling too qui
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by aspir 16y ago
The Ben Heck Mindsolder is by far the most essential component to any hack. I just can't seem to find it at Harbor Freight. Maybe if I checked Ace.
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This book is great. Branson was the first big-named businessman to convince me that "business types" weren't all backstabbing fat cats.
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by aspir 16y ago
For me, it would ultimately have to come down to the quality and caliber of the news within the app. I'd kill for high quality, diverse, informative, and mildly entertaining news. All the extra features are just thing that are built around
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May 6th Flash Crash: Algorithmic Trading to Blame(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by aspir 16y ago
I've done some work with environmental GIS and meteorological services, and the one thing that really caught us off guard in sales was the need for whitepapers for sales purposes. I blew a huge lead due to unpreparedness- never again. We ha
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by aspir 16y ago
It goes without saying that all business endeavors will have problems being for-profit institutions. What I meant with the post before was that given the normal wear of growing a business and doing the same while including the web1.0 bubble
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Although it says in the NYP article that the 27.6 million for the city won't immediately be justified, there had to be some estimated benefit. They allude to helping elderly drivers avoid accidents, but I wish they had thrown some numbers o
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by aspir 16y ago
You're correct about the software- it's brutally priced. But I have access to University copies that, though underpowered, can work for what I'm trying to do right now. I'm extremely lucky though.
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by aspir 16y ago
I think this is where hacker-built businesses have a unique opportunity. They're well versed with the development grind. Though the media company grind is very different, mainly through the necessary inclusion of many more people involved,
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by aspir 16y ago
Privacy began to quickly wilt away with the widespread use of credit cards and cell phones. Both of these allow for us to be tracked via spending and calls (now with apps and gps in phones). But, we've always had phone books, directory assi
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Congrats Kostas and Panos! Enjoy life at the Googleplex!
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That makes more sense. Sort of a "targeted energy" style of working.
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"From an actuarial standpoint, I only have 4000 days left..." What mindset to get your priorities together. I only have about 20,500 days left. Gosh.It's longer than Buffet, but it still makes me want to get cracking, and spend (just a litt
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by aspir 16y ago
Though this is slightly unrelated, I wish I could send this article to every software company who makes the tools I need, but only makes them windows compatible. I'm all unix on my end, but I'm having to scrape together emergency funds for
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by aspir 16y ago
It also seems a bit like a Gates/Ballmer relationship as well: sharp hacker and a sharp MBA.
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Perhaps the key to genius quality work is to aim for the timeless work alluded to at the end of the piece. It may come down to the fact that if you set the bar of all your work to be genius/timeless, you won't product average work, or you w
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by aspir 16y ago
This man is quite possibly the greatest hacker/hustler alive. It's one thing to solve problems, but it's an entire different level of determination to do this. On a related note, this woman may very well be one of the most evil people in th

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