davmar

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by davmar 14y ago
ice cube said "life ain't a track meet, it's a marathon". you take risks. you build something. you learn to build and manage a company. you learn to raise capital. you learn to negotiate a buyout. you learn to ship products and support
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by davmar 14y ago
HDR - Harvard Drivel Review
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by davmar 14y ago
please, and i don't say this lightly, quit your day job. make a blog called "fake startup CEO", a la "fake steve jobs". please. this is gold. i need more.
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by davmar 14y ago
this article is garbage at best. clear bias from the very first sentence and only argues from a current cost structure perspective.
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by davmar 14y ago
sure. the line that was toughest to swallow was this one: "In a market where speed is critical, venture-capital funding allows young companies to move faster than they could if they had to rely only on revenues to fund product development
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by davmar 14y ago
great discussion. interesting topic. garbage article. really. read it. it's absolutely atrocious.
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by davmar 14y ago
great job guys! now allow me to overstep my bounds: your trypair.com site is nearly impossible to read. here, i made a few changes: http://i.imgur.com/REGrI.jpg i'll send the psd if you want. it's just 10 minutes of mods without much eff
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by davmar 15y ago
cool idea. and the layouts are gorgeous! good luck!
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by davmar 15y ago
linkbait. the author talks about himself the whole time with a single sentence about richard branson, pasted below in its entirety: He talked about how entrepreneurs need to own the vision of the company and learn to delegate
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by davmar 15y ago
oh paul, what a mental block have created for yourself! the first sentence of your essay is "i'm not very good at __". well of course you're not going to be a good speaker if you tell yourself that. you speak to high-IQ crowds and you dis
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by davmar 15y ago
i loved the content, but i think that he could use some coaching on how to give presentations. i did find the 'um's to be distracting.
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by davmar 15y ago
obviously google adwords. remarketing pixels are good. adsense blew away a ton of cash with few results. but check out other directory listings. www.capterra.com is HUGE for us. our conversion rates there are about 12% (!!!!). organic
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by davmar 15y ago
sure. first of all, if you're a cs major (like me) it's doubtful that you'll have the right domain knowledge. in my case, my father and family friend approached me and asked if i could build something. our co-founder said "all the softwar
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by davmar 15y ago
we're a type s corp, so it's a flow-through entity. at the end of the year we distributed remaining profits based upon equal ownership (things have changed as we've grown). he worked off commission only to begin with and i drew a small sa
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by davmar 15y ago
gladly. i think the single biggest contributor to our success has been the fact that we are in close contact with our customers. if we lose a sale, we have the opportunity to learn why we lost. during a webinar, we hear the reactions of cu
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by davmar 15y ago
i'm the ceo of a company that sells b2b software. we never sell a product for less than $2k annually, and our contracts are frequently in the 5 figures annually. our current sales cycle includes a lot of the negatives that you point out.
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by davmar 15y ago
wrong. from his 2007 iphone keynote intro: 26m game consoles sold, 94m digital cameras, 135m MP3 players, 209m PCs, 957m phones... 1% market share is 10 million phones. "Exactly what we're trying to do, 1% market share in 2008, 10 million u
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by davmar 15y ago
it does keep costs lower, but there's nowhere else in the world that has the capacity to create the igadgets at such volume. foxconn creates about 50% of the worlds electronics (source:mike daisy's "agony and ecstasy of steve jobs - should
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by davmar 15y ago
tl;dw
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by davmar 15y ago
agreed. saying it'd take a few months to fix a save problem? hard for me to believe. maybe it is true but it's difficult to imagine.
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by davmar 15y ago
this made me a bit sick to my stomach. as i'm sure the original would as well.
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by davmar 15y ago
Can we block HBR? I have yet to see an article that isn't garbage. Btw which passion do you think steve jobs has? Seems like it worked out for him. Hmmmm.