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by davidu 16y ago
This isn't true for Google. Akamai has all kinds of archaic network issues that cause problems, but it isn't often OpenDNS related. They certainly do their best, and know our network map well as we send it to them whenever it changes. For
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by davidu 16y ago
I think the Gates, Jobs, Zuck breed are rare and it's hard to know when you (a) have an entrepreneur like that and (b) a business that supports longevity. Lots of entrepreneurs say they are in it for the long-haul, but very few VC-backed b
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by davidu 16y ago
That (brilliantly) is not directly related to conversion rate.
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by davidu 16y ago
Show some math. 25,000,000 @ 5% conversion == $125,000,000/year in revenue. That sounds like a pretty amazing business model to me.
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by davidu 16y ago
I think your analysis is flawed. While I think your costs are probably on target (except for compensation costs, which I think you are short by about 50-100%) your revenue guesses I think are grossly off the mark. Dropbox has 25,000,000 us
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by davidu 16y ago
It's really much more about losing alignment between employees, management, founders and boards. The consequences are quite negative, and if I could name the companies I know of dealing with this, I would. Unfortunately, I'm friends with t
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by davidu 16y ago
I totally agree with this piece, and anyone who knows me knows I feel this way. Giving an entrepreneur $250K-$500K to pay off credit card debt and give them a bit of comfort cash, is one thing. Doing so helps make sure they are invested in
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by davidu 16y ago
It keeps file revisions server-side. So you'd have to have one heck of a failure to find out: 1) Have all your nodes syncing at the same time and connected. 2) Introduce file corruption and deletion. 3) Have all your sync'd machines get th
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by davidu 16y ago
parental controls are not designed to thwart your nerdy 14 year old.
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by davidu 16y ago
".xxx has meaning and value (parents can block the whole TLD for their kids)." Seeing as how I run a service that happens to also be the largest parental content filtering service in the world (amongst other things), I can tell you that's s
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by davidu 16y ago
See: COICA -- any TLD is vulnerable.
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by davidu 16y ago
No it won't because there is already so much adult content on other TLDs that won't go away.
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by davidu 16y ago
This will be much ado about nothing. Despite being an industry-sponsored TLD, the industry does not want it. It doesn't help in blocking content for young children. It doesn't help adults find content they want. It accomplishes nothing b
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by davidu 16y ago
Hi Michael -- That's too broad a statement to make and it's not factually based on anything. Way too many variables, which is why the only real thing we can say is that location plays a huge role. In SF location drives higher salaries due
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by davidu 16y ago
We don't know if they ever agreed to a break-up fee. Shit happens. Move on. And it looks like Bnter did, with this post which will likely resolve their financing problem. Nothing weird or classless about business as recommended.
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by davidu 16y ago
False.
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by davidu 16y ago
This is an excellent article for any CEO taking their company from about 25 to 60 people. I forwarded it to my VPs of Product and Engineering, swearing I didn't write it myself. :-)
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by davidu 16y ago
IANAL and this is probably bad advice, but... You can let the company fall into bad standing. I have heard of the various risks with doing that, and I've never understood how those risks go away with dissolution. If the company is shutdown
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by davidu 16y ago
His entire post is about dissolution, not incorporation. Read the post.
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by davidu 16y ago
gross margin is unquestionably the metric used to gauge software companies. That's why we are so scalable. Especially SaaS. It's because our COGS are typically so low that we can afford relatively large R&D budgets (compared to oth
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by davidu 16y ago
"You're actually on to my point which is to stop doing low margin activities and focus on high margin activities." That's something I would certainly endorse. I didn't get that out of your post, I completely agree. Engineers who start com
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by davidu 16y ago
I shouldn't have thrown in that line about PHP, that was a total tangent. And in any event, I agree with your response. :-)
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by davidu 16y ago
1) AMZN and GOOG have proven that pageload speed does in fact directly relate to profitability. 2) Regarding "The vast majority of sites don't need to scale beyond a single server," you could make the same point that the vast majority of si
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by davidu 16y ago
Of course you can do limited roll-outs of new features. You just put it in a feature flag. The app can check w/ Twitter if that user has the flag enabled. More on Feature Flags: http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/12/02/flipping-out/ -David
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by davidu 16y ago
Not newlines... View it in a real editor. :-) This is to thwart stupid browsers that hide HTTP errors less than a certain number of bytes, which is incredibly annoying.
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by davidu 16y ago
Not content delivery, but CDN as in Canadian. People use CDN to refer in shorthand to Canada, even though it's not part of any official shortening or abbreviation. The Canadian currency is officially abbreviated as CAD although many folks
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by davidu 16y ago
Offers don't expire when you are out fishing next week and won't be reachable... cough . No seriously, offers don't expire if you communicate with them. If it's Google -- They took a lot longer than 5 days to decide they want you, you can
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by davidu 16y ago
"hybrid open access" Bullshit What you mean is "not open access." Don't lie to us.
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by davidu 16y ago
Yep, you are basically making a new requirement that hires have to be Starcraft experts; and if not, then your naming scheme is totally unintuitive and overly verbose. I'm a big fan of the function###.IATA (or ICAO) code. So like db1.pao, w
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by davidu 16y ago
What kind of timeline would you like to lay down a bet? 12 months?

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