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by dabent 16y ago
As good as that book was, I liked Stanley's "The Millionaire Mind" even more: http://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Mind-Thomas-J-Stanley/dp/0... There were two groups that stood out in the book: 1. Professionals who did well and invested wis
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by dabent 16y ago
Mike Tyson may be the exception to this rule.
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Guidelines for potential angel investors(entrepreneur.venturebeat.com)
3 points by dabent 16y ago|0 comments
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by dabent 16y ago
That's a really good point. There definitely are shades of gray. There are companies where one can have a voice and build some great things. One doesn't have to be the founder to be part of an entrepreneurial effort. It doesn't always alw
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by dabent 16y ago
Entrepreneurship overall isn't about the exit, but VC-backed technology startups are very likely about the exit. To me, entrepreneurship is the chance to build something that people want, the chance to lead and the chance to have a voice i
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Why You Need a Networking Plan Today(blog.kinetixhr.com)
1 points by dabent 16y ago|0 comments
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by dabent 16y ago
I found this image with the different patters and distributions of the giraffe populations more interesting than the main question of the article. http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/Brown-et-al-2007_Gir... I had always thought of all
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by dabent 16y ago
They weren't concurrent, but they came to mind quickly just by seeing the words of the title.
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by dabent 16y ago
I didn't get all 25 at once, but I could come up with the melody to the the ones I did know immediately. How does the mind do that? It amazes me that I have some kind of mp3 player in my head that can recall parts of a song I haven't hear
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by dabent 16y ago
I think that's a really good point. - Gates, Allen: Harvard - Bezos: Princeton - Page, Brin, Yang, Filo: Stanford - Zuckerberg: Harvard All these had the brains, drive and position to at least get accepted by a top-notch school. But that g
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by dabent 16y ago
"everything great that happens in your career starts with someone you know" My day job and night job are both for people I met on a previous job.
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Scrapping the Presses to Start HuffPo(online.wsj.com)
2 points by dabent 16y ago|0 comments
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by dabent 16y ago
I wonder if Scoopler's @WTF tweets count.
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by dabent 16y ago
"Often your boss won't be happy to hear you pointing out problems no matter how good your solutions are. Also, when you point out problems you might make other people or teams look bad, especially if your solutions are good." There is a som
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by dabent 16y ago
I believe that fleaflicker.com was done by a single, bootstrapped founder. It was acquired by AOL. The founder, Ori Schwartz, did write some on Reddit (where I heard about this) and likely elsewhere. An older story was Bob Parson's devel
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Shotput Ventures 2.0(sanjayparekh.com)
13 points by dabent 16y ago|6 comments
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by dabent 16y ago
"in large Enterprise Java Shops you now have a smattering of different languages on the JVM , albeit all hidden away." That's my take as well. I currently work in a J-A-V-A shop, but Python scripts are working their way in and there's the
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by dabent 16y ago
I am very lucky to live in the (US) subdivision I'm in right now. The situation you describe about kids playing in the street and (mostly) the yards is what we have here. Our neighbors have "parties" in their driveways and everyone is wel
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Third-party search engines start indexing Facebook "likes," shared content(social.venturebeat.com)
1 points by dabent 16y ago|0 comments
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by dabent 17y ago
I really liked the slides, but I'll always associate Powell's leadership abilities with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_weapons_laboratory He's apparently gone on record as admitting "It's a blot. I'm the one who presented it on
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by dabent 17y ago
I used Twitter quite a bit about a year ago, but stopped using it for the last several months. I went back recently to see what had changed and was really underwhelmed with what they've done. Spam is what really stood out to me. The trend
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Startup Culture: 23 Insights From NetFlix(onstartups.com)
2 points by dabent 17y ago|0 comments
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by dabent 17y ago
I just want it to work on a non-AT&T network (Verizon).
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by dabent 17y ago
Americans love their soft drinks. They also feel really guilty about it and resolve to drink more water, which means big money for people who make water filters and bottled water. Edit: to note this relates to the "Health" category I menti
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by dabent 17y ago
The three big things are health, wealth, relationships - Health WebMD, diet sites, probably others I can't think of. Snake oil. Oh, the internet is dripping with snake oil - Wealth/Career Careers at LinkedIn, The Ladders, Indeed and many m
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Java zero-day flaw under active attack(blogs.zdnet.com)
37 points by dabent 17y ago|11 comments
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by dabent 17y ago
>I wish people would stop talking about Williams syndrome as if it were, on the whole, desirable. I have a relative with WS. She's got a great personality, but has health issues that no one would want. Her intelligence is also well be
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by dabent 17y ago
I think the reason SO first took off was the same reason HN took off -- a person who was famous in the community the site was based on started it. Without some kind of catalyst, I'm not sure if I know a way to get a site like that going.
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by dabent 17y ago
So how did you end up in TechCrunch?
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by dabent 17y ago
Is there a specific business you're trying to build, or are you just seeing how well you can do online?

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