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Pandora's Product Prioritization System(firstround.com)
2 points by christopherslee 13y ago|0 comments
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by christopherslee 13y ago
What have you been doing for the last 8 months while he worked on the product. Hopefully you have built up relationships and other important knowledge that are still valuable. If so, you should be able to make a compelling case to new prosp
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Even startups need time to recharge(blog.marketmesuite.com)
1 points by christopherslee 13y ago|0 comments
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by christopherslee 13y ago
Similar to the above poster, I think you have to determine what your goals are for your own side project. Is it mostly a learning exercise for yourself? Was it your lottery ticket? Were you just simply trying to build a product that solved
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by christopherslee 13y ago
I can't say whether or not an acquisition offer is validation of an idea from an investor's perspective. To play devils advocate, I could also argue that if you are considering it, then you weren't hockey sticking, and thus i
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by christopherslee 13y ago
From my experience, I would open the discussion with them and be honest about where you are trying to go with the product. Offer up potential partnership arrangements/rev share (whatever makes plausible sense.) In my opinion, if they c
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JRuby 1.7.5 released(jruby.org)
1 points by christopherslee 13y ago|0 comments
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Reveal-JS Construction Kit(github.com)
1 points by christopherslee 13y ago|0 comments
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by christopherslee 13y ago
Specifically on the developer side of things, it's good to ask questions, but if I can answer it with lmgtfy.com then I'm going to get annoyed pretty fast, especially if you're asking me questions every 5 minutes when you can
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Andrew Mason releases motivational business music album(nydailynews.com)
2 points by christopherslee 13y ago|0 comments
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United Pixel Workers T-Shirts - All profits going to American Red Cross(unitedpixelworkers.com)
1 points by christopherslee 13y ago|0 comments
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by christopherslee 14y ago
The key question here is, are you building a quick and dirty prototype, or are you building an MVP? MVP doesn't mean a garbage prototype. Depending on what you're doing, an MVP could still take significant time to build (and your MVP would
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by christopherslee 14y ago
On the flip side, if you have had success doing those things, why do you want a "job" where someone tells you what to do? Maybe you just need to learn a little bit about sales and marketing so that you can make money from your own successf
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by christopherslee 14y ago
i think both men and women are implicitly required to negotiate. i guess like other people are saying, i'm not sure if people look at two equal candidates and discriminate based on sex/age/other.
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by christopherslee 14y ago
i didn't read this, but i always wondered if women's salaries are lower on average because of a reluctance to negotiate. (thus citing that women's salaries are lower than men's has nothing to do with gender bias?) I'm not trying to say that
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Star Wars Episode 7 in 2015(money.cnn.com)
2 points by christopherslee 14y ago|0 comments
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by christopherslee 14y ago
work smart, work very hard. you'll either find it fulfilling and rewarding, or learn that you're might actually enjoy working for a good company (it's possible you just weren't a good fit at your current job too.)
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How to make your customers orgasm(okdork.com)
3 points by christopherslee 14y ago|1 comments
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Using your KPI goals to drive product development(christopherslee.github.com)
1 points by christopherslee 14y ago|0 comments
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by christopherslee 14y ago
great point! I guess I take it for granted that people actually get out of the building before starting on their journey.
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Measuring Startup Success by Defining Key Performance Indicators (KPI)(christopherslee.github.com)
9 points by christopherslee 14y ago|3 comments
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by christopherslee 14y ago
i don't get it at all. what's the value here?
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Why Dribbble is ruining art(quintaldesigns.com)
2 points by christopherslee 14y ago|0 comments
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by christopherslee 14y ago
you should blame the product owner/manager/guy for writing incomplete/vague specs.
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by christopherslee 14y ago
awesome! way to go guys. props for shipping something so that you can iterate. where do you think you are going with this? is this just a hackathon turned into a nighttime hobby? or do you think you can build a real business out of this.
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by christopherslee 15y ago
another way to phrase this is that not everyone drinks the silicon valley kool-aid that raising money equals success.
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Quick and Easy Inset Effects(quintaldesigns.com)
1 points by christopherslee 15y ago|0 comments
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by christopherslee 15y ago
I'm not sure it's necessarily the students, although it could be part of it. To me the question has always been "Why do we assume MBA is a degree in entrepreneurship". MBA's have a lot of different coursework, from strategy to finance, from
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by christopherslee 15y ago
I think that one huge mistake that people often make is spending a lot of time going through "This is how you create a contact", and then entering in fake field data into forms. And you can edit that form, and then go edit and re-save the
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by christopherslee 15y ago
I'm pretty sure there are "Groupon for X" companies in YC. So clearly people see that there is money to be made. I'm not exactly sure why everyone is hating on Groupon. Why not hate on Zynga for coping other games? Why not hate on Linked In

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