brett1211

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by brett1211 2y ago
What are best use cases so far?
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The Human Potential of VR: Spending Time with Dad in Cyberspace(medium.com)
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24 DOs and DON’Ts for Building the Next Facebook(medium.com)
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by brett1211 15y ago
New York, NY Sonar- http://sonar.me/ Sonar shows you how you are connected to other people nearby. We are venture-backed are about to launch. Get in early. We're hiring mobile client developers (Android or iPhone), server-side developers
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by brett1211 16y ago
Miles, what kind of projects are you looking to get involved in? I know plenty of people in the city looking for hackers. hit me up at brett AT appfund.com @brett1211
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Are you the bottleneck?(blogs.harvardbusiness.org)
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Ask HN for data points for my startup: How do you choose a restaurant?(spreadsheets.google.com)
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Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology (www-ksl.stanford.edu)
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Building products is like preparing a meal(timetogetstarted.wordpress.com)
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Drive (Courtesy of Marc Andreessen) (timetogetstarted.wordpress.com)
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Free Business Idea: Karma Calculator (Measuring aid btwn ppl)(timetogetstarted.wordpress.com)
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Community Building: Make affiliation more valuable by making people earn it(timetogetstarted.wordpress.com)
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Free Business Idea:Time-based Barter Economy Targeted at Entrepreneurs(timetogetstarted.wordpress.com)
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Leveraging online data to optimize offline experiences, and vice versa(timetogetstarted.wordpress.com)
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Offline/online conversion: Managing content leads discovered offline(timetogetstarted.wordpress.com)
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Agility: Behavioral Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs(timetogetstarted.wordpress.com)
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Why successful entrepreneurs are persistent(timetogetstarted.wordpress.com)
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If all startup problems are unique, what's the point of VCs?(timetogetstarted.wordpress.com)
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"What Should I Work On Today?" A very entrepreneurial problem...(timetogetstarted.wordpress.com)
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Be Accessible (and other positive traits of successful VCs and entrepreneurs)(timetogetstarted.wordpress.com)
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by brett1211 17y ago
I can definitely understand why you might think that this business was an pure internet play but it certainly wasn't. As PG learned, people don't buy highend art over the internet. They need to experience in person. The need to know what
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by brett1211 17y ago
Well, all I'll say is that one of the most prestigious venture firms in the world saw fit to invest in their seed round. Also, they took considerably less (half) of what is considered standard salary. In any case, it certainly wasn't an e
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by brett1211 17y ago
They closed the business about a year after it was formed. Also, i wouldn't say that the business was formed because of the stock market, more that the economic downturn had an outsized influence on their customers propensity to spend. Th
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by brett1211 17y ago
Your point about the art market boom and downturn is definitely true. As the article alludes to, fractional models tend to do well in downmarkets because they enable buyers to reduce risk.
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by brett1211 17y ago
Hi- People already physically share their art with other people and institutions over the course of the year, think of all art in museums that is "on loan" from private collections. Fractional ownership would enable art investors to diversi
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by brett1211 17y ago
I can't answer directly for Jordan, but I would assume that their costs were a lot hire than you would expect because they were working in the ultra-luxury goods category. When communicating in this market, everything is about extravagance
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The Post Mortem of a Venture-backed Start-up(timetogetstarted.wordpress.com)
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by brett1211 18y ago
"stupidity more often takes the form of having few ideas than wrong ones." best line of the essay. This is probably sophomoric, but... I was wondering why there is no semantic engines that can identify the major themes in the comments and p
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by brett1211 18y ago
The hiring process in general is outdated, if not broken. It is exactly the same (Resume to Interview) regardless of the type of job in question (Banker vs Developer vs Babysitter). Where is the customization? As more and more work become