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by chris123 17y ago
And then there's this: "Every Time An Engineer Joins Google, A Startup Dies": http://www.businessinsider.com/every-time-an-engineer-joins-... and this http://buzzpal.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/would-you-have-any-g...
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'Avatar's' animated acting(latimes.com)
3 points by chris123 17y ago|1 comments
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Good 3-minute narrated video of the birth of a "movement."
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Interesting and, at least somewhat, related post today (2/14) over on TechCrunch: "TED Organizer Trashes Speaker, Fails Social IQ Test": http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/14/ted-organizer-trashes-speak...
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Some interesting info and numbers in there. For example, the most recent blog post http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/01/20/the-4-big-myths... has received 750,000 visitors in the three weeks since it's been published. Those visitors
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by chris123 17y ago
Here's a link directly to OkCupid's blog, which is good/interesting for a variety of reasons): http://blog.okcupid.com . And here's a link to the related NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/technology/internet/13cupi... That a
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Three Steps to Demystifying Online Dating(gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by chris123 17y ago|1 comments
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Interesting comp structure ("iPhone Payment Plan").
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Thanks for the comment and sorry if my writing style's not to your liking. My post was not written to hurt anyone, quite the opposite. I have my own writing style, yes. It's not for everyone, yes. But you don't need to come here and try
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Just substitute "entrepreneur" (or really many/most challenging and rewarding things) for "writer" in the excerpt below: Call it stubbornness, stamina, a take-no-prisoners determination, but a writer at work reminds me of nothing so much as
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A writing career becomes harder to scale(latimes.com)
1 points by chris123 17y ago|1 comments
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Thanks for the comment, but it's a red herring ( http://www.fallacyfiles.org/redherrf.html ). Whether the money comes from an angel or a VC or a bank or China or your dad, you still need to stop, think, and discuss before you do choose to
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Very innovative. Seems like a huge opportunity. Excerpt from the article: Minors as well as adults can buy items in the games with a “Kwedit Promise,” which can be paid off later in a number of ways — with a credit or debit card, for examp
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Buy Now, Pay Later (Maybe With Your Allowance)(nytimes.com)
5 points by chris123 17y ago|2 comments
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Here's the premise: Taking that VC money is a root cause of most/all of the "Deadly Mistakes" Rob and Josh made with EventVue (read their post-mortem here: http://blog.eventvue.com/post/372936164/post-mortem and the TechCrunch article her
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"Bootstrap or Die - Lessons Learned From a Web Startup's Murder/Suicide(bootstrappy.blogspot.com)
9 points by chris123 17y ago|7 comments
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Interesting. I'm sure we'll be hearing from Rob and Josh again soon. As others have said, this is not a failure, it's milestone on their journey and learning experience. Their story has inspired me to write a blog post based around the foll
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Taking that VC money is a root cause of most/all of the "Deadly Mistakes" Rob and Josh made. Take "tried to build a sales effort too early," for instance: Pumping money into a sales effort is what VCs do! No bootstrapping startup would or
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EventVue’s Next Event: Deadpool. Co-Founder Shares Mistakes.(techcrunch.com)
1 points by chris123 17y ago|1 comments
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Great job, guys :)
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Maybe there's never a "good" time to put up a pay wall, but it seems pretty dumb or naive to try to do it now, while so many people are still eliminating recurring expenses and generally trying to save money. If money is tight, switching t
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Applications Become Black Boxes Using Markets to Scale and Control Costs (highscalability.com)
1 points by chris123 17y ago|0 comments
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BarMax: The $1,000 iPhone App That Might Actually Be Worth It(washingtonpost.com)
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I agree, but it's good they're experimenting. They need to do an exclusive deal with Microsoft or Google (like Bing/Murdoch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/13/murdoch-google-bing-mex... ).
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Our by Google, when they roll out EtherPad-like features to Google Docs. Oops.
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I guess EtherPad-like features are coming to Google Docs. Now that will be sweet!
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If you don't change, you die. But I hear ya. It like when your favorite neighborhood or neighborhood establishment gets "discovered" and it's character changes forever. That's the nature of things, the good, bad, and ugly.
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It's a great recruiting shortcut -- in the Malcolm Gladwell "Blink" kind of way. And, it's a great way to snap up talent, bring it in house, see if it (the people) sticks, if not let 'em go. It's basically a real option acquired for pocket
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More single-founder stories: Overture (Bill Gross), eBay (Pierre Omidyar), Napster (Sean Fanning), Lycos (Michael Mauldin), Amazon (Jeff Bezos), AOL (William von Meister), Digg (Kevin Rose). Source: "If you’re going to launch a startup, how
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Mistake, Freudian, or my dyslexia :)

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