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by bpm140 15y ago
As someone who has been on TechCrunch many times, I offer the following observations: 1) There are a glut of startups. The only time the majority of startups get coverage is a money event (funding, acquired, dead-pooled). You chances of lau
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Advisors have a 30-day half-life(marcoullier.com)
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Why your advisor isn’t more helpful (and how to fix it)(marcoullier.com)
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by bpm140 15y ago
PG suggests that this won't stop the trolls but it might deter more traditional companies. Does anyone have stats on who is doing the most damage to early companies? Given the press, it's easy to think that trolls are the biggest offenders
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by bpm140 15y ago
Totally agree with you. My number one priority is that my children have a career that leaves them as fulfilled as I am. If that means they're entrepreneurs too, that's awesome, but I don't really care. As a result, my wife and I are focuse
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by bpm140 15y ago
It seems like what Techcrunch fans really like is... Mashable :)
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by bpm140 15y ago
I'm a marginally successful product guy and I regularly get asked by people how to find developers to implement their Big Idea. I tell them to go talk to developers and find out the developers' Big Ideas and then work on one of them. You ge
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by bpm140 16y ago
I think we have a different definition of "unpredictable". I don't mind (within reason) when an option has unadvertised consequences, such as in the Rdio example. That doesn't strike me as "unpredictable" as much as it's "complex". The "un
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by bpm140 16y ago
For a second I was like "Rand Paul used to design logos?" Then I was all "That's silly, he would have been like three years old when he did that logo."
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by bpm140 16y ago
People who join startups hoping to make a pile of money with their shares are fooling themselves. For every Google or Facebook, there are ten thousand startups nobody remembers. I'm always direct with my startup hires: "You are unlikely to
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by bpm140 16y ago
That's because "the team" was laid off on Tuesday.
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by bpm140 16y ago
What we are seeing is the backlash against the idea that just adding points and badges will create a compelling experience. This is no more accurate than if you replaced [your favorite game] with a series of menus and button presses and th
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by bpm140 16y ago
The first rule of Fight Club?
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by bpm140 16y ago
If the goal of the new patdown is to make everyone so embarrassed that they opt for the backscatter machine(1), then I suggest turning the tables. The next chance I get(2), I'll be pulling a When Harry Met Sally on the TSA employee checking
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by bpm140 16y ago
Man, I tartled something fierce last week at a dinner party I threw in NYC. Thank god I finally have a word for it.
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by bpm140 16y ago
<i>Whether that is feasible is another matter entirely.</i> No, it's not. I could suggest that we can power cold fusion with green cheese but that doesn't mean it will heat your house this winter.
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by bpm140 16y ago
Conversely, the top 74 earners in 2009 made as much as the bottom 19 million. Updating to include citation: http://www.tax.com/taxcom/taxblog.nsf/Permalink/UBEN-8AGMUZ?...
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by bpm140 16y ago
This is the A-Number-1 reason for having a cofounder. Inevitably, you're going to get burnt out, you're going to lose faith. It's at those moments that you talk to your co-founder and he tells you why you're out of you're fucking mind, that
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by bpm140 16y ago
I have launched several tech startups (one acquired by Yahoo) with a senior partner now at Goodwin Proctor. They did all my docs for my current venture. A couple thoughts: 1) Goodwin proctor is super respected and they're not going to put
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by bpm140 16y ago
I know we're probably going to see a lot of "Wha? Microsoft are a bunch of hypocrites!" in this thread and I urge everyone to just think of how great things would be going forward if we can see some changes like this. We can't change the pa
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by bpm140 16y ago
Dammit. I raced back after reading the article to post this exact statement. Once again someone beats me to the karma :)
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by bpm140 16y ago
This is almost definitely coming from eBay. It's important to recognize that this is a Cease and Desist and not an actual legal action. It's a threat of a legal action. You really have two options -- either you give up the domain name or y
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by bpm140 16y ago
The guy who said it is Andrew Lewis. Might I suggest "Lewis's Law"?
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by bpm140 16y ago
I'm a guy who thinks of the TSA as "security theater" and I still thought the author sounded like a douchebag. The guys an attorney; he's obviously pressing legal buttons because it's intellectually interesting to him. Bully for him. He h
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by bpm140 16y ago
Not to be gauche, but where do I send the 1TB hard drive to get a dump of every mix? :D
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by bpm140 16y ago
Maybe someone with great knowledge can chime in, but it seems like this is classic Prisoners' Dilemma. If only some people lock up their content, those who give it away for free will eat their lunch. I applaud Dave for believing in his posi
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by bpm140 16y ago
I once read a fantastic interview with Douglas Adams back in the late 70s, after Hitchhikers Guide had become successful in the UK, but prior to its impending US release. Both Adams and his interviewer knew that the author was about to come
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by bpm140 16y ago
They've been profitable since their very first quarter and, according to the TC article, they will likely make as much in profit next year as they've raised in the last three years. The fundraising is almost exclusively used for acquisition
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by bpm140 16y ago
Maybe we should just rename the "MembershipIdentityProvider" method to "SuperLaserWeapon"?
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by bpm140 16y ago
Interesting. I thought banks made it difficult to transfer money because: 1) The longer a bank possesses your money the more money they make loaning it to other people and 2) when a bank has your money, they've got you over a barrel so you

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