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by colortone 18y ago
Can you see how the argument you're making proves his point?
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by colortone 18y ago
He's using "hack" as a management/strategy heuristic. You may find that his articles "lack substance" because Umair generally works within a kind of Socratic method that demands more of the reader than spoonfed pedantry like TechCrunch, et
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by colortone 18y ago
I'd be curious if you posted this comment over at HBS (although Umair has been known to lurk here)... What you're missing is that "administration" as you're grokking it is optimized for industrial economics, not the low cost, low risk, high
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Hacking the Industrial Economy(discussionleader.hbsp.com)
14 points by colortone 18y ago|14 comments
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by colortone 18y ago
Gandhi's autobiography is great Also Jan Swafford's biography of Charles Ives is amazing (genius American composer who was also an early 20th century multimillionaire insurance tycoon)
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Open Thread: Rethinking Detroit(discussionleader.hbsp.com)
1 points by colortone 18y ago|0 comments
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by colortone 18y ago
Thanks so much! Seen any cool Wikipedia bots or apps in your travels? ANYthing is interesting to me...
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by colortone 18y ago
you should ask tony...he'll probably answer you
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by colortone 18y ago
The Only Sustainable Edge This is pretty much the only book that matters ;-)
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by colortone 18y ago
I just found a newsgroup meme that pointed me to Wikipedia's policy on crawlers vs. using a Database download: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download Can anyone translate this? I understand the part about not letting an
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Ask YC: Anyone built/seen any cool Wikipedia apps? (e.g. WikiScanner)
1 points by colortone 18y ago|3 comments
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by colortone 18y ago
I hope everyone here is continuing to follow this meme. It's an incredibly powerful way to design businesses. I strongly recommend John Seely Brown & John Hagel's 2005 "The Only Sustainable Edge" to further ground one's understanding
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Facebook And The Future Of Competition(discussionleader.hbsp.com)
3 points by colortone 18y ago|1 comments
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by colortone 18y ago
It depends on what else you bring to the table If you have biz dev connections that will get deals made, successful experience marketing or fundraising, a design or creative background, experience in the vertical your product serves, etc, t
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Historic ‘Blockbuster’ Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past(theonion.com)
1 points by colortone 18y ago|0 comments
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by colortone 18y ago
It's very interesting to me, given how advanced the HN community is in terms of programming and business strategy, how inefficient most of the marketing strategies suggested here are. (with the notable exception of: "make an incredibly usef
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by colortone 18y ago
It's hard to see how they can guarantee that you won't be diluted. There's a lot of variability in these kinds of negotiations. If you really think the company is going places, negotiate for as much as you can and say "yes" before it puts
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by colortone 18y ago
1gor, you're douching up this thread. That's fake money. As Marc Andreesen pointed out, U.S. taxpayers paid the Bear Stearns CEO $60M in cash, directly: http://blog.pmarca.com/2008/03/congratulations.html PEACE
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by colortone 18y ago
Yes Read the last 6 mos of Bubblegeneration for more details
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by colortone 18y ago
Hey PG, I bought www.benevolentcorporation.com a few months ago while thinking about these memes. I'll sell it to you for $5M ;-)
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by colortone 18y ago
GREAT formula. Here's a short one, riffing on the "hollywood pitch": "[Service] combines [reference point] and [reference point] to achieve [business objective of customer]".
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Bridge Building in Venture Capital-Backed Acquisitions(hbswk.hbs.edu)
1 points by colortone 18y ago|0 comments
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Revenue models that are dead: Advertising & Subscription(continuations.wenger.us)
1 points by colortone 18y ago|0 comments
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by colortone 18y ago
Right, I see. I totally understand them...they were in a position to pick a number that said, "You know what, if someone actually puts this up, we can take the deal and have absolutely no regrets." [If this stands to reason], it wasn't "out
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by colortone 18y ago
It's great to hear discussion around Umair's thought patterns that add even more depth... I think what he was trying to say might be a little different from PG's interpretation... Umair might have said, "every company that had the potential
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by colortone 19y ago
I was there on the 2400 baud, wishing for that 9600 baud and a 486
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by colortone 19y ago
Umair Haque has some good insights here that dovetail with Watts... (Here he is critiquing the assumed "90/10" nature of "user-generated content": that only 10% [or 1% or whatever] of people on a given web service will be active contributer
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Black Tuesday...01/22/08?(bubblegeneration.com)
1 points by colortone 19y ago|0 comments
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by colortone 19y ago
I was in a similar situation and my STRONG advice is to kill it working nights and weekends on your project before you quit. You need tons of inertia...3 things you should have before you quit: 1. some demo/prototypes done 2. a 15 slide
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by colortone 19y ago
TuneCore.com

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