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by bpm140 13y ago
I've long thought that this boils down to trust. The strong reaction against IAP from many people (including me) comes from counter-aligned goals between the designer and the player in games with IAPs. In a traditional game, I trust th
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by bpm140 13y ago
My hunch is the "freemium is bad" argument is primarily an oversimplification of the underlying concern -- the erosion of trust and how that manifests during gameplay. When I play a traditional "pay" game, I trust that t
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by bpm140 13y ago
Back in 2007, one of the teams at Yahoo Research Berkeley (YRB) built an awesome tool on top of Flickr that showed on a map the things that were photographed somewhat, but not a ton. For instance, it wouldn't surface pictures of the Go
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by bpm140 13y ago
This contractor added a fake beard to his profile. What happened next will blow your mind.
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by bpm140 13y ago
The double sliding doors are to minimize the impact that the outside temperature has on the inside. These have been around for years and I've never seen one in place that can block someone's egress. You are correct that many subwa
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by bpm140 13y ago
This seems like a purely PR move. Not only is there nothing wrong with that, it's probably worth figuring out how other people can get national press with flimsy stories. I see what Uber gets out of this, but what reason would the NFL
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by bpm140 13y ago
But the need is still fundamentally inelastic. You're seriously ill from food poisoning and you've lost a lot of fluids. The ER nurse is about to stick an IV into you and wave your hand weakly and say "Wait, how much is that
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by bpm140 13y ago
I have two active kids and am reasonably active myself. We have probably received medical treatment a dozen times in the last year, a combination of walk-in clinics, personal physicians and emergency room visits, depending on the circumstan
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by bpm140 13y ago
Ralph Lauren jeans has plenty of competition and the customer is reasonably well informed: * Do you want to pay a premium for brand value? Awesome, buy the Ralph Lauren (or Lucky, or whatever). * Do you want something reasonably durable but
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by bpm140 14y ago
You can take a brand down-market, but it's very, very difficult to take it up-market. JCP stands a better shot at dominating the "discount" market, which everyone associates it with, than combating half a century of marketing.
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by bpm140 14y ago
Rdio's user interface is significantly better on mobile for anyone who still views the world in terms of albums. Spotify has a significantly larger catalog. For now I'm using both. Rdio whenever possible and Spotify for specific artists an
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by bpm140 14y ago
The 1% also get different ads when they read Robb Report. Bug me again when people are involuntarily served content based upon their socioeconomic status.
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by bpm140 14y ago
The shit sandwich is a tool used because you feel the person isn't capable of handling direct criticism. When using the shit sandwich on a senior report, you are implicitly stating that you don't believe they can handle direct criticism.
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by bpm140 14y ago
>Everyone on the team is responsible for good user experience. The existence of a person who does nothing more than "UX" is a process smell. In all the good startups I've known, everyone was responsible for sales, hiring and creating an
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by bpm140 14y ago
They let go people from the sales team. Execs, engineering and product were all hired (assuming they made it through the standard Google hiring process).
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by bpm140 14y ago
Google bought Meebo for the team, not the product.
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by bpm140 14y ago
Most of their initial toolbar customers came from the Time Warner strategic investment. Publishers are so hungry for revenue, they tend to flock to guaranteed revenue, which Meebo was likely using to get additional sites on board. I'm guess
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by bpm140 14y ago
Ask questions.
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by bpm140 15y ago
The quote was from the Half Sigma article. I didn't get the idea that he was very old.
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by bpm140 15y ago
I’d make the case that it’s better to hire the 27-year-old because he is still at the stage of his career where he enjoys the stuff and is therefore more motivated to learn and work harder, while the 60-year-old is surely bitter about the
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by bpm140 15y ago
While there are occasional projects that go viral on Kickstarter, the vast majority of projects that get funded are the ones where the founders have already spent a load of time getting their contacts excited about the project.
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by bpm140 15y ago
Good call! Wrong Ataris.
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by bpm140 15y ago
In 1975, if you wanted a personal computer you bought a kit for roughly $1,750 in today's dollars and you assembled it yourself. It didn't have a monitor. You programmed it yourself. And at the end of all that you had blinky lights that c
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by bpm140 15y ago
Talk about a quick opportunity for improvement! Instead of displaying: "Oops, try again." Code Academy could type your statement: "A large part of learning to program is testing and debugging. Please see if you can figure out what went wron
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by bpm140 15y ago
At 30 I was miserable because I hadn't done anything massive either. Then I sold a company for $12M when I was 34, started a company at 35 that is now (three years later) at a $1M monthly run rate and was an advisor to a billion-dollar publ
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by bpm140 15y ago
This explanation makes a ton of sense. I get it now. Thank you.
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by bpm140 15y ago
Wait. What? The author says there can only be one BB but that there can be both GB and BG? What he's doing here is saying that birth order functionally doesn't matter if the sibling is a boy, but it does matter if it's a girl. How is th
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by bpm140 15y ago
No offense, but you appear to be acting deliberately obtuse. I am not denigrating the role of developers. In most cases engineer #1 is the founding CTO and has commensurate equity. The first hired developer, like the first hired sales guy
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by bpm140 15y ago
What most people forget is that equity is awarded over time for value provided over that period. For simplicity's sake, imagine a startup with two people: a founding CEO and their first development hire. At the beginning, their contributio
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Advisors do it for love(marcoullier.com)
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