dalton

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1. 151.▲
   by dalton 16y ago

   nice job, Anson :)
2. 152.▲
   by dalton 16y ago

   I used to walk by that lego storage array in the Stanford CS building every day when I was an undergrad. I personally found it inspirational.
3. 153.▲
   by dalton 16y ago

   YES, THANK YOU. One of my personal goals for doing the talk is to get people thinking that way. I wish someone would had gotten me thinking that way years ago. I wanted to put a quote from Aaron Patzer in my talk, but didnt have enough tim
4. 154.▲
   by dalton 16y ago

   I agree with what you are saying about pigeonholing, but please realize that just because something raises money, it does not mean that it will work. VCs view investments as "bets", not sure things, and the vast majority of those bets fail.
5. 155.▲
   by dalton 16y ago

   It seems like most of the beef that people have with my talk revolves around the semantics of what a "music startup" is. Semantic arguments can end up being fairly tedious... It is a complex issue because even if you don't deal with label
6. 156.▲
   by dalton 16y ago

   Thank you. I am probably going to do a "ask me anything" about this stuff once I have a chance to catch my breath.
7. 157.▲
   by dalton 16y ago

   Thank you, I really appreciate the fact that people seem to be receptive to the things I had to say. Frankly, I wasn't sure what kind of reaction my talk would get... but since pg personally asked me to do it, how could I pass up the opport
8. 158.▲
   by dalton 16y ago

   thanks for the votes :)
9. 159.▲
   by dalton 16y ago

   pg, thanks for mentioning me. I will be revisiting these themes at my Startup School talk this year.
10. 160.▲
    by dalton 16y ago

    WOW. Assuming this isn't a hoax, and the proof holds up, this is front-page news kind of big deal. As I recall, this has way more real-world practical usage than the Fermats Last Theorem proof. Read the "Consequences of Proof" section in th
11. 161.▲
    by dalton 16y ago

    I used to live in a co-op with Corwin (the CEO/CTO). The main thing I remember about him was that he was really into kite surfing. He was also scary smart and about as good of a mechanical engineer PhD as I have ever met. Him being the CEO
12. 162.▲
    by dalton 16y ago

    That is an excellent poem, and I remember reading it before I was familiar with his work. Now that I have actually read several of his books, I see how he was sort of a disaster as a human being: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukows
13. 163.▲
    by dalton 16y ago

    I hope someone writes a technical post-mortem/case-study on this.
14. 164.▲
    by dalton 17y ago

    tl;dr
15. 165.▲
    by dalton 17y ago

    Um, grooveshark does not have a deal with WMG. WMG makes the same amount of money when you pay grooveshark as when you download bittorrent files. At least the bittorrent sites don't pretend they are legal to sucker people into paying them.
16. 166.▲
    by dalton 17y ago

    I took a class taught by Lee Ross. The main real-world topic used in that class to illustrate a lot of this stuff was "peace in the middle east." For example, no matter what was printed in the NY Times it was perceived as obviously skewed
17. 167.▲
    by dalton 17y ago

    Oh, I thought this was going to be like the Winer number: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/04/21/whats_your_winer...