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by danshapiro 12y ago
Cost is one thing I'm not worried about. Makerbot lead the way by making an additive 3D ready-to-use printer available at <$3k. Now Dremel's got a consumer 3D printer at $1k. There are credible projects to get small-build-volum
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Slice and Carve: The Next Wave in Computer-Aided Creativity(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
30 points by danshapiro 12y ago|11 comments
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by danshapiro 12y ago
The second footnote in the article is a twitter post from a user, @rosyna, who said that she couldn't take a screenshot of Netflix. https://twitter.com/rosyna/status/550702351703875584
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by danshapiro 12y ago
Not sure I understand. What does the actor in the commercial have to do with the product? (disclosure: Navdy investor)
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by danshapiro 12y ago
Actually, if you're being pressured, a better response is, "If you need an answer now, it's going to have to be 'no', so I hope you can adjust your schedule so we can consider your offer more fully." Exploding
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by danshapiro 12y ago
You're forecasting the future based on the state of technology at the present. That is unlikely to point you in the right direction.
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The dangers of sharing ‘Genie, you’re free’(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by danshapiro 12y ago|0 comments
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by danshapiro 12y ago
This advice (and much of the advice in the thread) pooh-poohs what they've done and says that you should be a cofounder. I think that the offer does not fairly reflect your value, but this advice also doesn't fairly reflect what t
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Man Allegedly Kicked Off Southwest Airlines Flight for Tweeting Complaint(yahoo.com)
1 points by danshapiro 12y ago|0 comments
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by danshapiro 12y ago
There is an interesting article on lesswrong about how to allocate your resources between things that make you feel good and things that actually do good. http://lesswrong.com/lw/6z/purchase_fuzzies_and_utilons_sep
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by danshapiro 12y ago
First, two disclaimers. I'm an advisor to Highway1, and my only firsthand manufacturing experience is with a relatively straightforward boardgame, produced stateside (because after investigating overseas manufacturing I decided it was
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by danshapiro 12y ago
Here's the bit that blew my mind: The GPS-guided weapon struck the Americans because the controller on the ground who called in the airstrike changed the battery on his GPS device in the middle of the bombing run. But he didn’t realize
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The Curse of Friendly Fire(time.com)
2 points by danshapiro 12y ago|1 comments
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by danshapiro 12y ago
I appreciate the authors taking the time to write this (unfortunately this HN comment page emphasizes the uphill climb ahead). But there's one thing in particular I, selfishly, appreciated them addressing: "Does this mean we’re g
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by danshapiro 12y ago
The US is 120V/15A-20A. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere#North_American_domestic_...
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by danshapiro 12y ago
"at the time Dan Shapiro argued against it" -> and still do. :) To summarize the key points, I think: - Joel confuses "easy" (50/50) with "fair" (working out the right number) - It is better to argue y
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by danshapiro 13y ago
(OP here) I wholeheartedly agree. Obviously you can't run around firing people willy-nilly. Once you realize that that's really your only recourse, and that it has to be a bastion of last resort, you can focus your time on the r
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Playing the CEO Card(xconomy.com)
1 points by danshapiro 13y ago|2 comments
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Market First(danshapiro.com)
1 points by danshapiro 13y ago|0 comments
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Google slashes prices for consumer cloud storage(googleblog.blogspot.com)
2 points by danshapiro 13y ago|0 comments
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by danshapiro 13y ago
If you submit the form, they notify you that you're Nth in line (N=70k right now) but they'll ship you one now if you... you guessed it... buy it.
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by danshapiro 13y ago
This will go down as the day the New York Times considered the number of Reddit comments a more important indicator of impact than phone calls to members of Congress.
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by danshapiro 13y ago
You joined at a later stage. Those companies probably represented the top ~20% of outcomes, with a high probability of success for the investors. For every company like the one you describe there are several that didn't raise the roun
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How to Build a $20 3-Axis CNC Robot(plotterbot.com)
3 points by danshapiro 13y ago|3 comments
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3 semis, 65 countries, 36 tons: Shipping my Kickstarter(venturebeat.com)
1 points by danshapiro 13y ago|0 comments
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by danshapiro 13y ago
I will blog about it if/when I solve the mystery.
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by danshapiro 13y ago
I'm working on bringing the game back in some form, but right now my priorities are my awesome Kickstarter backers first, and getting the rest of this production run in lots of kids' hands second. And then going on vacation with
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by danshapiro 13y ago
Robo rally was invented by the legendary Richard Garfield. (His next game was Magic the Gathering). I had the good fortune to talk to him about robot turtles before it launched. He had an awesome suggestion to add sokoban style crates to th
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by danshapiro 13y ago
Interesting. A few minutes after this hit the front page, one person ordered every single one of the 700-odd copies in the amazon warehouse. (There are still copies in the Fulfillrite warehouse though, purchasable through Amazon).
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Anatomy of a $631,230 Kickstarter Video(danshapiro.com)
52 points by danshapiro 13y ago|19 comments

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