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by davidu 16y ago
The CTO of name.com, Sean Leach, is one of the most knowledgeable and industry-connected DNS guys I know. I would also highly recommend name.com
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by davidu 16y ago
And I forgot my other comment to make which is, as someone else before me once remarked, many startup's problem space early on appears to be a toy or something of little utility or value, but that is rarely the case in the long-run. Just l
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by davidu 16y ago
So stop living in a world of bread and circuses. I don't use foursquare because I get no value. Nor do most people I know. I use Twitter for work, nothing else. I produce, I do not consume. I am not special. There are lots more like me
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by davidu 16y ago
Sorry you feel that way. Upvoted you anyways. :-)
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by davidu 16y ago
DNSSEC will not have a negative impact on our business.
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by davidu 16y ago
Thanks!
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by davidu 16y ago
And obviously, we're hiring: http://www.opendns.com/about/careers
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by davidu 16y ago
If you think "faking it" is despicable then you're right about one thing -- you are not an entrepreneur.
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by davidu 16y ago
A key piece of being an entrepreneur is faking it until you make it. It comes out in many forms: 1) Minimum viable product 2) Acting bigger than you are 3) Creating industries and markets that don't exist. Without that ethos and world-view
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by davidu 16y ago
Society has always had people claim to be the things they're not. That's human nature Jolie. You call yourself a journalist and student of computer science. Who am I to say you aren't? Sometimes your dreams become reality when you work t
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by davidu 16y ago
There are many entrepreneurs who exist within companies and absolutely fit the definition and spirit of the term Entrepreneur. Good post, and I understand the motivation for writing it but it's wrong. If you think you're an entrepreneur, m
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by davidu 16y ago
He gave his own examples, all are mediocre.
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by davidu 16y ago
Knowing how to design a website and being able to design a website are two very different things. You just know how to design a website. You are not able to design one though.
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by davidu 16y ago
It's okay if your name doesn't do anything to help me understand what your company does, but when that is the case it's important that your website should make the benefits statement clear to me.
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by davidu 16y ago
A lot of people say "I use Yahoo!" Yahoo also has a ton of partner traffic that represents a major chunk of their revenue which is never under the Yahoo! name. You can have a strategy that doesn't care if people use you as a verb or think
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by davidu 16y ago
This is frustrating to watch. Yahoo is a terrific company with some amazing people. And they know how to execute. YUI / YDN / Boss / Flickr / Hadoop / etc. But they lack any sort of strategy or vision. Wall Street has assigned $0 to the
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by davidu 16y ago
There will be more about this issue in the coming weeks. It's expected to pass in the SJC on Thursday but will get more scrutiny in the Senate. This caught a number of us by surprise but we are responding aggressively and quickly. And yes
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by davidu 16y ago
In regards to the poor grammar -- I've no doubt they prioritize posting speed in exchange for a more liberal writing style policy. In regards to his grasp of tech -- I see nothing offensive about your example. He says it's probably a bug,
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by davidu 16y ago
I'm assuming you mean, is it possible he's right? Of course it's possible. The surprising number of votes would seem to indicate people agree with him. I don't know how many down-votes he's had though.
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by davidu 16y ago
Aaron -- MG is one of the few TC writers who editorializes pretty liberally in his posts. I appreciate that as it makes it more interesting and it doesn't bother me as I happen to agree with most of what he says. To editorialize successful
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by davidu 16y ago
$120/year is not worth it to me. $10/year would be. Just my feedback. :-)
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by davidu 16y ago
This is known generally as the "Thundering Herd" problem: The thundering herd problem occurs when a large number of processes waiting for an event are awoken when that event occurs, but only one process is able to proceed at a time. After t
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by davidu 16y ago
Umm... With EC2, which is what they often use, powering up and configuring 1000 machines can take 10 minutes or so, give or take a ramped boot. :-)
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by davidu 16y ago
Yes. How dumb is that?
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by davidu 16y ago
Greenspan -- You need to "let go" of your Zuckerberg fixation. I get it -- I think we all get it -- you think you deserve some or more credit for your role as a catalyst for Facebook. But you didn't invent Facebook, Zuck did. Zuck gets th
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by davidu 16y ago
There is a structured market, and most angels are allowed to sell into future rounds (in addition to being able to sell more generally, with minimal restrictions usually being a ROFO and No Competitors clause)
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by davidu 16y ago
The secondary markets for great companies are very liquid -- it's not an issue today for investors.
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by davidu 16y ago
The most bizarre thing is that they don't all appear to be normalized to point North at the top.
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by davidu 16y ago
Most of the VCs who end up on here have yet to generate any really significant returns, some are even under-water. The really successful VCs are all retired or retiring -- or at the very least, don't blog. :-)
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by davidu 16y ago
That's the other way. The alternate way is to just watch /newest early in the morning for the really good stories.

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