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by dean 19y ago
People buy stock to make money, and a 62% premium is good money. I doubt shareholders would reject the deal unless they think Yahoo is worth more than that. I doubt they would reject it because of some sort of amorphous anti-Microsoft senti
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by dean 19y ago
You don't have to read much of the business literature to discover that mergers and acquisitions, especially at this scale, rarely produce the expected synergies. All in all, I think this is good news for Google.
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Microsofot is the dominant player in Web 2.0 software space? Really?(seekingalpha.com)
1 points by dean 19y ago|0 comments
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by dean 19y ago
The article says that because the mentors found the project work acceptable, then lines of code becomes a good measure of productivity, even though it generally wouldn't be. But I think it's still a bad measure of productivity. In fact, I t
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If you meet requirements, do lines of code then become a viable measure of productivity?(edge.org)
5 points by dean 19y ago|4 comments
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How Much Fuel Does Your Startup Need?(tonywright.com)
1 points by dean 19y ago|0 comments
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by dean 19y ago
What you describe is Microsoft doing the absolute least they could do to accommodate their users who wanted to get online. Things like making the technology a little easier or having Word export to HTML -- I don't consider this "embracing t
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by dean 19y ago
You give the impression that it's impossible to fire someone in Canada. It's not. Even if someone is actually fired because they are alcoholic or older or pregnant, it's very hard to prove, whether it's against the law or not.
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by dean 19y ago
We always hear about this so-called classic example of how Microsoft made a huge change and embraced the internet back in 1994, but did they really? What did they do? They created Internet Explorer, destroyed Netscape, and that's about it.
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by dean 19y ago
My impression is that what you say about firing someone is true for employees of the government or very large companies. But not really for medium or small companies. And certainly not for startups. And I suspect the U.S. government has sim
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by dean 19y ago
"IBM is said to love buying Canadian companies like Cognos because of their tremendous employee stickiness. Next time one of my American clients ridicules Canada's pro-employee ways, I'll remind them of this." I didn't know Canada had "pro-
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23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies(virtualhosting.com)
12 points by dean 19y ago|1 comments
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by dean 19y ago
I think what you're really talking about is commitment. Personally, I find I can "stick with it" and persevere much more easily if I'm committed to something. Maybe those startups in Ycombinator that give up are not totally committed. When
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Bootstrapping a Software Company - down-to-earth common sense from 10 years ago.(klhess.com)
21 points by dean 19y ago|4 comments
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Y Combinator Inspires Imitators(businessweek.com)
5 points by dean 19y ago|0 comments
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Doing Business Online. BusinessWeek Special Report.(businessweek.com)
1 points by dean 19y ago|0 comments
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New study yields instructive results on how mindset affects learning(news-service.stanford.edu)
11 points by dean 19y ago|6 comments
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by dean 19y ago
That's fantastic! Congratulations.
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Free Online Business Courses From the U.S. Small Business Administration(sba.gov)
4 points by dean 19y ago|0 comments
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by dean 19y ago
My sense is that people just assumed Pareto Principle numbers (80/20 rule) and are making an implicit comparison to that. And they assume participation = content-creation = uploading photos. But I agree with you. Uploading photos is only on
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Participation on Web 2.0 sites remains weak(reuters.com)
7 points by dean 19y ago|10 comments
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by dean 19y ago
I remember seeing a lot of stories 6-12 months ago that talked about the 1% rule for user-contributions to participatory web sites. 1% create content, 10% interact with it, and 89% pass it by. But according to this fairly recent article fro
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by dean 19y ago
>"interesting things on the edges/fringes of markets, society, and technology. Imo, those are what you have to pay attention to" Well, at least the new direction will give you one of those three things.
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by dean 19y ago
>"Personally, I don't care about startup news..." This begs an obvious question. Why visit a site on a topic you have no interest in?
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by dean 19y ago
Keios, I hope you're right about your first point. But my fear is that this site will become just another hacker site. There is nothing wrong with that per se, but we may end up losing a valuable resource on startups in the process. It may
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by dean 19y ago
I don't like this idea. There are already many places on the net to find out about hacking. But this is the only place I've found for good stories about startups (of course, I stopped looking after I found this place). From what I can see,
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by dean 19y ago
This is one of the options in the poll (but it's a bit hard to tell now). This option was meant to see how many people visit Startup News who have no intention of doing a startup.
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by dean 19y ago
Make your vote Karma-neutral, vote this down when you vote up one of the other options.
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by dean 19y ago
Fair enough. I'll add that option.
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by dean 19y ago
None of the above (reply to this comment if you want to elaborate).

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