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by athst 15y ago
I think you can only say that this is a visualization of how things are in Crunchbase, not "the startup world" in general. It's ranking things based on the number of connections each thing has. For angel investors this may be a good indic
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by athst 15y ago
Can anyone help me understand how this will work with the game? I don't see anything about flying virtual ships around...
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by athst 15y ago
I think that there's a distinction to be made between copying code and copying design. Design is hard, and even though a design might be quick to implement in code, that doesn't mean the design was easy. Just look at the Samwer brothers - t
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by athst 15y ago
Okay, so that means I have about 60 days left of productivity/having a life
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by athst 15y ago
This is a really great article. I didn't realize that Slate gave their journalists a month out of every year to do something like this. I think the description of her initially trying to learn ruby is really instructive for everyone who wa
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by athst 15y ago
great series. A couple videos I would recommend is the one with Mark Suster and the one with the Instagram founders.
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by athst 15y ago
I agree. You can't really criticize someone for selling, maybe they had to do it. But it really does make you pause the next time you decide to commit to a new company. Today I got reminders in my email about how SimpleGeo and IndexTank w
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by athst 15y ago
I like the point about how randomness seems to be such a big part of the process. If you're not using connections and are applying through normal channels, to me it seems like there is so much that can go wrong that isn't related to your a
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by athst 15y ago
I think Readability's model is a little presumptuous. Why do they get to decide unilaterally that they deserve 30% of the revenue? It's not like the App Store where you agreed to it. Given all the work that goes into creating an article,
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by athst 15y ago
They've basically structured it as a business plan competition, not a startup competition. Not sure what kind of businesses they were looking to attract with this, but it doesn't seem very well suited to what we tend to think of as a "star
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by athst 15y ago
I can't stand it when sites try to be cute like this with their 404 pages. I guess it's a good thing for getting buzz, but what about a user who is actually trying to use the site and gets that page? It's awful. You were trying to comple
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by athst 15y ago
I agree with this - please don't make me connect with another login somewhere else. Give the choice of creating a separate username/password for the site.
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by athst 15y ago
This is pretty funny. Reminds me of how Steve Jobs dismissed it at the D conference when Google TV originally launched by saying something like "Google will find out in 6 months" how difficult the TV market is.
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by athst 15y ago
It may be superficial, but I wonder how much naming and marketing could be a factor. The name sounds a little bland if you don't know what it is. I wasn't that interested to learn more about it until I went to a meetup where a guy explain
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by athst 15y ago
It all depends on your budget and what kind of lifestyle you want, but if I had a choice I'd live in the Mission or Mission Dolores. The Mission to me feels like the most vibrant area of the city. There are a lot of the best restaurants an
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by athst 15y ago
I imagine this would attract a lot better audience than Startup Weekend, because it implies that you actually were able to get something started on your own.
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by athst 15y ago
Seems bizarre to me that he would be so dismissive, I didn't think Brin had that kind of attitude. Even as an outsider I found the memo compelling enough to read all the way through. But it also brings up a point about Google+ that it seem
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by athst 15y ago
I don't agree with this at all. The main points seem to boil down to: "I want my smartphone to be a desktop computer." If you try to use your smartphone for the same purposes as a laptop, yeah, then you'll probably hate it, but if you app
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by athst 15y ago
When it was first released, a lot of people said that it was the next best thing. Take a look at Robert Scoble's initial coverage. The only problem was that, since it was an app, I don't think they got the level of attention that they wer
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by athst 15y ago
I wonder who the demographics are of the people who use StumpleUpon. I don't know anyone who uses it, and no one ever really talks about it, but somehow they manage to put up these huge traffic numbers that keep growing. It would just be i
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by athst 15y ago
(1) No I wouldn't be interested in the answers to those questions for a regular person, and that's the point. Seeing extraordinary people in ordinary situations is interesting. For example, I would like to see Barack Obama walk into a Sta
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by athst 15y ago
This is an interesting story precisely because it is so ordinary. Over the past week we've heard and read so much about all of his grand accomplishments. After all of that, this is a little story that reminds us that he was a human being.
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by athst 15y ago
Stock wordpress install? Come on guys
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by athst 15y ago
Like everyone else, I'm happy for the founders. But as a Typekit customer, I was pretty disappointed to see their email announcement about this today. They were doing well and were on to something big - why did they have to sell now? I lo
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by athst 15y ago
I agree entirely. Sites like Youtube and Yahoo! Answers have been maligned in the past couple years with the rise of sites like Quora and Google Plus, but to me, the interaction on Youtube feels a lot more human and authentic than on the o
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by athst 15y ago
Who cares how viable it is? The fact that he built it, and it sorta works, is awesome. If you said this came out of DARPA instead of some guy in China, I doubt you'd get the same critical comments.
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by athst 15y ago
I have the 13" i7, and for me it's great for web development (I do rails). The three-finger swipe to switch full screens introduced with Lion is actually really awesome for doing terminal stuff. The screen size only becomes a problem if yo
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by athst 15y ago
I agree with this entirely. I was at a company that used Jive software. While it was better than anything we had before it, it wasn't perfect either. I would have like to try out other tools instead. The problem was that it was implemen
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by athst 15y ago
I like this idea a lot. I wish you could just view the listings on the site instead of having to wait for a weekly email. That's what I was expecting, and having to wait is just annoying.
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by athst 15y ago
Every time Facebook tries to copy Twitter like this, it just makes their product even more confusing and unfocused than it was before.

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