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A Startup Marketing Framework(rocketwatcher.com)
3 points by bradfordarner 12y ago|0 comments
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by bradfordarner 12y ago
Listening to the audio will certainly do the trick. He runs through a lot of the big picture explanations of the problems that he was working on with the whiteboard but those aren't primary. By his own telling, all of the problem detai
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by bradfordarner 12y ago
Yes, I did. Sorry about the mistake.
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by bradfordarner 12y ago
I watched through the series a couple of months ago. I will do my best to provide a couple of the highlights that I really liked. Unfortunately, I didn't keep a detailed journal of the course as a I watched. I really should have. Gener
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by bradfordarner 12y ago
I'm hoping that you were not the one who down-voted a my perfectly legitimate point of view. I agree with you that there is a little bit of a straw man attack going on here...if you haven't read Christensen's book. That being
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by bradfordarner 12y ago
This is a really well written and interesting perspective. I really enjoy hearing contrarian opinions to commonly held beliefs. Well done!
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by bradfordarner 12y ago
I agree with you so much. I find myself digging into Erlang docs more and more. That being said, I think there needs to be a communal effort to improve Erlang documentation. It is very terse. One of the points brought up in Garret Smiths ta
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by bradfordarner 12y ago
I got the book last weekend. Chris has done a wonderful job! For me, metaprogramming is one of the things that was a deciding factor with Elixir, in addition to all the other functional programming aspects that are part of the language. I&#
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by bradfordarner 12y ago
Agreed. This is a great example of a "straw man attack". He sets up an intellectually shallow definition of a philosophical ideal and then somehow manages to connect it to Florida politics...Brilliant! He deals so fluently in gene
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by bradfordarner 12y ago
Thank you for the note. I hadn't visited the github yet. I will be interested to see whether people can whittle down the respective benchmarks.
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by bradfordarner 12y ago
That is very good to know. That reassures me a little. I was really impressed with the speed difference they noted between Python and R and the fact that Numba wasn't too much slower than C++ implementations. However, given the state o
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by bradfordarner 12y ago
It is unfortunate that the authors of this paper didn't reach out to experts in each programming language in order to write high-quality code against which they could have run the analysis. This seems like the perfect use-case for open
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by bradfordarner 12y ago
'Nothing' is all about context! Plus, college kids won't be able to steal your data...there isn't any.
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by bradfordarner 12y ago
Great argument! I think you are making a valid point. If I understand your point correctly, it is primarily a question of placing a value on different activities and comparing the price of a Soylent meal to the opportunity cost of lost time
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by bradfordarner 12y ago
Well played!! In fact, I agree with you...I only listen to non-fiction at 2x the speed. Most modern non-fiction has one main point that they stretch out over 200 pages. I couldn't imagine listening to a novel at double to speed.
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by bradfordarner 12y ago
It has next to nothing to do with France in and of itself. I'm utilizing a stereotype to make a point. Yes, I've been living in Paris and London, 2 of the most expensive cities in the world. By the way, I've also lived in Mal
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by bradfordarner 12y ago
Why would anyone want to use this? I'm a maniac about time management and do everything possible to not waste even a moment of the day (e.g. if I'm doing any trivial physical activity, I'll be listening to an audiobook at 2x
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by bradfordarner 13y ago
Wow! The quantity of bad advice in these comments is shocking, if not down right disturbing. If Intel, GE, or Mircosoft hired a consultant to advise them on the right move, the vast majority of people on HN would scream bloody-murder and sp
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by bradfordarner 13y ago
Haha, actually I thought about that as I was writing. I was going to change what I wrote a bit for that reason and then I recalled my No. 1 rule in life: "Don't be a douchebag!" and I left what I wrote as is.
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by bradfordarner 13y ago
Yeah, be careful about that. The head of brand protection at Monster is a guy that I have had business contact with. He is one of my least favorite people I have ever met in my life and I have had the pleasure of speaking with scumbag insur
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by bradfordarner 13y ago
I'm intrigued by 'premortems' because the name sounds interesting. However, I find myself very hesitant to pay with my email for a 'free' signup unless I know what it is. Even with the examples, I have no idea what
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by bradfordarner 13y ago
Absolutely. Berkshire holds sizable positions in companies that spend significant amounts of money on marketing and website design. What I find fascinating is the absolute simplicity. People do not buy shares in BRK for fancy design or cutt
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Great website != successful...Warren Buffet == 586,000% growth(berkshirehathaway.com)
1 points by bradfordarner 13y ago|2 comments
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by bradfordarner 13y ago
Startups are not defined by their growth. However, VC-backed startups are customarily focused on growth. The difference between these two statements is subtle but important. 'Revenue first, growth second', a paraphrasing of Clayte
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by bradfordarner 13y ago
I completely disagree with your statement. Maybe there is a bigger question: 'Is crossing the chasm to widespread adoption always a good thing?' Maybe we should be trying to build platforms that are high-quality instead of high-qu
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by bradfordarner 13y ago
What a waste of my eyes! As someone who spent years working in government-ese, there is nothing new here at all. None of the documents are actually classified. They are standard policy propositions layered with heavy technical/governme
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by bradfordarner 13y ago
This story should be a case study for virality in a niche community. It was 100% political (i.e. as captivating and informative as a car crash) and yet...it captured the attention of hackers the world over, apparently. As someone who spent
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Don't Waste Email Marketing - First, Find the Customer's Problem(startupthehardway.com)
2 points by bradfordarner 13y ago|0 comments
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by bradfordarner 13y ago
Core thesis: 'No...Malcolm Gladwell is wrong. You can't be me. Why? Because I'm cool. Yes, that's right. I'm cool, like Warren Buffet." This article is a phenomenal example of an intelligent and successful person lacking any rational and lo
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by bradfordarner 13y ago
This reminds me so much of being over there. This documentary does such a great job of showing the utter confusion and screwed up nature of fighting counter-insurgencies. Every day is like choosing between different types of cancer. There i

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