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by biznerd 17y ago
"Being first mover doesn't give you the right to assert every piece of your argument." I'm not. You're just playing devil's advocate. The way you are responding, you have no interest in actually debating the idea. Can you explain why media
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by biznerd 17y ago
You've made no effort to argue with me, you've merely tried to deconstruct my argument like I was writing a proof in a ethics class. Unfortunately this is hacker news, not philosophy news. Provide a counter-argument that is based on the top
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by biznerd 17y ago
This guy sounds like a techno-evangelist. Evil? George Bush used those same words. The world is much more complex than "good" and "evil". Notice he doesn't even mention that media companies will greatly benefit? Journalism positions will be
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by biznerd 17y ago
"That could make San Francisco-based Zynga the third-largest U.S. video-game publisher by market capitalization, bigger than Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., the maker of crime-game franchise Grand Theft Auto." Awful. A company that uses
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by biznerd 17y ago
Many of them as well are "lifestyle" businesses that are probably not going to need capital scale (and thus do not need any VC) What would CarbonMade do with a $3 million investment?
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by biznerd 17y ago
They should rename the company to MediaGlow (the division that owns all their blogs). http://www.mediaglow.com/ The AOL name is tarnished with both investors (from the disastrous merger with Time Warner) and consumers (nightmare cancellat
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by biznerd 17y ago
Japan is horribly indebted because of their lost decade. Public debt is headed to 200% of GDP this year. http://blogs.reuters.com/japan/2009/11/14/japans-bulging-deb... It's credit rating is ranked lower than Botswana: http://www.indepen
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by biznerd 17y ago
Flashing "You're the 1,000,000 visitor to this site!" and fake "You have 1 message waiting" 468x60 banner ads pay more than $.16 CPM. Many of these ads appear on low-quality sites where the visitor spends less than a minute on. Meanwhile, t
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by biznerd 17y ago
I'm sorry but being of a minority race is completely different than being bullied because you're a nerd. It's amusing to me though that people on YC have upvoted this view so much. For some reason I'm getting the feeling that there are a lo
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by biznerd 17y ago
PG is low-balling you. A 200k valuation for a startup that has already earned $1m in profits (I'd assume over several years) is absolutely ridiculous. He's trying to capitalize on his name. I assume you're not pressed for cash. The $14k you
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by biznerd 17y ago
I'm guessing you're a straight white male. Imagine how different you'd feel, be perceived and interact at a sports bar almost only by White people versus night club almost exclusively attended by Black people. It's uncomfortable to be in th
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by biznerd 17y ago
De Beers Convincing people they need a carbon rock through a brilliant marketing campaign ("A Diamond is Forever" named best advertising slogan of 20th century by Advertising Age). This slogan convinces Americans and global consumers to cha
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by biznerd 17y ago
Fairly one-sided article (and book). Don't get me wrong - there are many negatives about private equity. There are a large number of big corporations that are under severe financial stress right now (Harrah's, Clear Channel, etc.) because t
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by biznerd 17y ago
I was absolutely shocked when Pinker's writing revealed that Gladwell in his book referred to an "igon value" (instead of eigenvalue, which I learned about in the second week of my Linear Algebra class.) How the hell does someone lecturing
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by biznerd 17y ago
Or she was just very nervous. Your cognitive abilities decline if you're put on the spot. Have you ever said something stupid while speaking in front of a group? The girl goes to Syracuse, which is a somewhat selective University. She would
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by biznerd 17y ago
This strategy wouldn't work if one I was a diners. I always make it a point to ask for a second round of bread (refill of nachos etc).
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by biznerd 17y ago
The terms "introvert" and "extrovert" are very misused. It just measures how much you like being around other people. I know many introverts with very good social and emotional skills. Likewise, I know many extroverts who are terrible in th
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by biznerd 17y ago
Why are you taking this personally? I will go out on a limb and say: * The typical engineering/CS students I met at college had a noticeable lower emotional and social intelligence than the average student. Obviously there are exceptions. T
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by biznerd 17y ago
"You can't tailor your search or refine it based on values and properties specific to your categorical search." It's a nice idea but to be honest this is out of reach for 98% of internet users. I've probably explained to my mom what a blog
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by biznerd 17y ago
It's not in the bag yet When Murdch originally bought the WSJ he said he would bring the pay walls down on WSJ.com: "(WSJ.com) is an excellent site but we charge for it, which limits it to about a million in circulation. We are studying and
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by biznerd 17y ago
Ugh - guys please don't be fooled by this. The guy has no journalistic integrity whatsoever. Remember the last.fm fiasco? http://www.itworld.com/business/63085/lastfm-tech-crunch-and... He's a very opportunistic person. Ranting against po
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by biznerd 17y ago
For many terms as well they're featuring Youtube at the top . So not only are they getting users to ignore organic SEO results. They're driving traffic to their properties.
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by biznerd 17y ago
This is not a very good analogy. * You are one individual that averages 6 trades in month . GS has hundreds of traders, many of which do average that amount in a week (if not a day). The law of averages applies to GS, while your experience
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by biznerd 17y ago
months, yes this is possible. But only one day, that comes to almost a perfect score. And no one else has a perfect score. GS has turned into a giant hedge fund. And their numbers are consistently better than any other fund or investor. Bet
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by biznerd 17y ago
Goldman serves as a "prime broker" to many hedge funds. Not to mention intimate financial relationships with the largest corporations in the world. It would be naive to think that it did not have any advantage because of its position in the
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by biznerd 17y ago
Not to mention that 15k over 6 months isn't something you can live on. Hypothetically yes they could "scale" and launch 5 equally successful apps but things never work out that way. I wouldn't be surprised if the author had other apps that
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by biznerd 17y ago
Written by a Yale professor: http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-el... The article is long but it's a very good read. I like to reread from time to time. A point I liked especially: They [his graduate students] were
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by biznerd 17y ago
"This SafeBank article from Matt Mullenweg about how he would start a bank is the most brilliant piece I’ve ever read and I agree with everything he says too (Matt – want to start a bank with me?)." I have to say I lost a tremendous amount
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by biznerd 17y ago
ADD can be an advantage if you learn how to concentrate and control your impulses (read Richard Branson's biography). Plus the OP is in high school. How many people here can say they had motivation and concentration problems in high school?
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Intellectual Masturbation

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