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by comatose_kid 13y ago
I'm not sure what most people know, but I think calling the group of people who 'run the world' scumbags is extreme
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
Very insightful post about entrepreneurship by Canadian entrepreneur Dr. Ray Muzyka (BioWare founder). Among the many interesting points: "For the first five years of BioWare, myself and my co-founder Dr. Greg Zeschuk didn’t pay ourselves a
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Persistence, Decisions, Disruption and Exits(thresholdimpact.com)
1 points by comatose_kid 13y ago|1 comments
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
Agreed - the only concern was that the user would sign up with a different email address than the one used to invite them with - in which case we wouldn't be able to link them together.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
(artsnapz founder here) Thanks for the feedback. We don't (now or ever) plan on spamming the address book of our users. We didn't show the entire flow, but the user chooses who the email is going to - it comes up in the standard email dia
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
That's a good idea - we'll give that some thought as we work on streamlining our login flow (which is probably a good topic for a future post)
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How to invite users to your app(medium.com)
28 points by comatose_kid 13y ago|20 comments
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Building a Culture That Works(peter.a16z.com)
4 points by comatose_kid 13y ago|0 comments
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
Like most things, it depends. The opportunity cost is large but I mitigated this by doing a part-time MBA.
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by comatose_kid 13y ago
Great point. I just wanted to counter the prevailing wisdom that an MBA is not worthwhile & show how my perceptions of it changed over time. ROI: Most choices result in opportunity cost - expense and time were considerations, but the
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MBA - good or bad for a tech start-up?(medium.com)
26 points by comatose_kid 13y ago|40 comments
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by comatose_kid 14y ago
Hey edw519 If I left 10 companies because someone got promoted despite the fact that I did 3x the work, several questions would pop into my head: 1) Did the company value what I was working 3x as hard on? 2) Did the company know that I wa
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by comatose_kid 14y ago
Wow 6 years already - I found out about HN 2 days after you did. Long live Startup News :)
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Statement By Apple(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by comatose_kid 14y ago|0 comments
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by comatose_kid 14y ago
fun quote: One day a student confessed to being puzzled by the concept of amplification, which was one of the prime functions of the transistor. Shockley told him: "If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike
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The Tinkerings Of Robert Noyce(stanford.edu)
1 points by comatose_kid 14y ago|1 comments
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With a view from beyond the moon, an astronaut talks possibilities(seattletimes.com)
1 points by comatose_kid 14y ago|0 comments
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by comatose_kid 14y ago
Hi Matt, You just haven't found the right MBA :) Some quick background: I'm attending school part-time for my MBA (Richard Ivey, case-based). I've also been with a successful YC startup from the the ground floor as a technical hire, and a
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The 86-Year-Old Startup Guru(forbes.com)
1 points by comatose_kid 14y ago|0 comments
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by comatose_kid 14y ago
We recently did a case on Zara at my b-school (Ivey). Really pragmatic use of technology and a very humble management team. They really take the old maxim that 'fashion is fleeting' to heart in their operations and manufacturing chain.
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by comatose_kid 14y ago
What an interesting article. Bret mentions Rocky's boots at the end of his writeup. When I was in Grade 5, I taught the kindergarteners how to use logic by running Rocky's Boots on an Apple II. It was an effective way to learn because the
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by comatose_kid 14y ago
I wonder if it would make sense to stop publishing a physical paper? Subsidize an ipad3 for long term subscribers?
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Did The Universe Just Happen? [April 1988](theatlantic.com)
1 points by comatose_kid 14y ago|1 comments
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The Path To Starting A Startup(scott.a16z.com)
2 points by comatose_kid 14y ago|0 comments
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Yelp Chair Max Levchin's Trek from Kiev to San Francisco(forbes.com)
1 points by comatose_kid 14y ago|0 comments
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by comatose_kid 14y ago
Harsh and cynical comments in this thread. I'm waiting to hear how much you've committed to give away once you've made your first million (never mind billion).
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by comatose_kid 14y ago
Really enjoyed his book (Designing Interactions, see www.designinginteractions.com). Here's another article about him: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/technology/william-moggrid...
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by comatose_kid 14y ago
Carl Sassenrath is the designer of the original AmigaOS. Respect!
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by comatose_kid 14y ago
I used interleaf publisher for my part time job in university. I remember the fonts looked nice on our 20 inch displays.
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by comatose_kid 14y ago
I worked with David a long while back at VM Labs - fun times, and my first introduction to people who used and liked lisp.

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