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by diego 14y ago
I agree. Also, it turns out that improving their product involves marketing. I went to the site and I had no idea why I would want to sign up. How is it different/better than all the existing coupon/deal sites? The "about" link is below the
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by diego 14y ago
These posts make me want to write a Startup FAQ: Q: How do I get on Techcrunch: A: Ignore Techcrunch. Don't waste brain cycles on them. If they cover you on their own, great. It almost certainly won't do anything to improve your odds of suc
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by diego 14y ago
Like I said to another commenter, actual prevention and the appearance of prevention are different problems. They are not mutually exclusive. Reducing the public perception of risk is not the same as reducing the actual number of casualties
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by diego 14y ago
It's not either/or. Actual protection and the appearance of protection are separate problems, which is one of the reasons it is such a complex issue. Also, Israel and the US are not easy to compare. The types of threats, population sizes, a
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by diego 14y ago
I'm no fan of the TSA, but how can you be "pretty sure" when terrorism acts are extremely infrequent events with unpredictable results? It's perfectly possible that the way the TSA works (e.g. knowing that you'll go through body scanners or
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Why Investors Want Co-founders(diegobasch.com)
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by diego 14y ago
It's worth noting that as investors (you a professional, me small fry) we are biased. I just wrote a quick post about my reasons to prefer startups with more than one founder: http://diegobasch.com/why-investors-want-co-founders
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by diego 14y ago
That was true back then. Nobody could foresee that Reddit would get acquired, and Digg would swing for the fences and fail. Among other things Digg got overly ambitious, and took what turned out to be too much funding in the subsequent year
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by diego 14y ago
Tree-totalers.
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by diego 14y ago
Crashed? It was a public event (Open Tech Talk). Why sensationalize the title? http://events.linkedin.com/open-tech-talk-new-1129669
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by diego 14y ago
Did you read my original comment? My point was precisely that PR is not that important. If you want to rank higher on Google, simply create good content. You cannot depend on the signals they use because they change all the time. Do you hav
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by diego 14y ago
If you know PageRank, what matters is not the site that links to you, but the page within the site. Techcrunch.com has a PR of 8. On the other hand, http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/04/gathercontent-launch/ has a PR of 4. That page also
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by diego 14y ago
That is a myth. If you know how PR works, you understand that the contribution from a random TC article (not the home page) is not very significant. Also, PR is one in a myriad signals Google uses to gauge the goodness of a page. It's less
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by diego 14y ago
Getting covered by TC is easy. They posted 34 stories on the front page yesterday alone. There simply isn't that much tech news. If you give a decent story to a reporter that he/she can publish it with little work, you're there. Why you'd w
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by diego 14y ago
If there is one thing I dislike more than self-help, it's self-help based on anecdotal evidence from one person with no background in psychology. Even more so when the title of a post states an extreme personal hypothesis as if it were a fa
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by diego 14y ago
Word cloud made from the last 1500 tweets containing "nbc": http://i.imgur.com/l36S9.png
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by diego 14y ago
Thanks! It's Brazil by Cornelius.
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by diego 14y ago
I completely agree with what cletus says. I'm 43 years old today. Some things just feel uninteresting because I started doing them too young. Interestingly programming is not one of them, I have been doing it for 30 years. On the other hand
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by diego 14y ago
This is a sperm telling you how to fertilize the egg. Swim fast, be fit, etc. How about all the other companies who try the same (completely obvious) tactics and don't reach 4M users in 6 months?
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by diego 14y ago
Good education in the US is very expensive, unlike in Sweden. For those of us who believe that quality education for everyone is good for society, it means it's broken. Other people believe that it's better to have excellent education for t
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by diego 14y ago
"So who is to blame if an airline that’s comfortable and treats passengers well fails, while a carrier that annoys and nickel-and-dimes customers at every turn is a run-away success? We all are." All? Evidently many people (myself include
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by diego 14y ago
Can you elaborate on the bullshit part from the interview? I'm curious. I read the book (Imagine) and I enjoyed it. It wasn't particularly deep, but I didn't catch anything that wasn't consistent with what I already knew about the topic.
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by diego 14y ago
Regardless of whether we are in a bubble or not, it's embarrassing to see how easily someone can get a blatantly fallacious comparison on the front page of Hacker News just because of its emotional resonance with some users.
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by diego 14y ago
I understand that this type of post is useful to many people, especially younger folks looking for career direction. I'm turning 43 this week and I've been down that road many times, so this post doesn't mean much to me. This is not a compl
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by diego 14y ago
I understand. However, this is a savvy blogger who is looking for publicity. Facebook contacted him to defuse a potential PR situation, he didn't call them. You'd imagine they would be smarter than that, after all they are the world experts
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by diego 14y ago
“Oh and by the way, you are not allowed to disclose any part of this conversation; it is a secret that we are even having this conversation” If this is true, it's practically begging for the blogger to research the law, and publish the wh
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by diego 14y ago
"But perhaps Topsy's biggest selling point is what it doesn't do: the service doesn't reveal user scores. That simple, easy to read score - Klout's calling card and biggest selling point - is also its biggest weakness. Obssessing over that
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by diego 14y ago
I don't think he implies that. Those two things are not contradictory. She could be an outstanding professional AND be there because of her connection. There is nothing wrong with that. It happens all the time, everywhere.
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by diego 14y ago
VC funds see a power law distribution of returns (including YC). This is unusually lopsided, and suggests several possible explanations. For example: - All these startups compete in winner-take-all markets, where the luck factor would ampli
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by diego 14y ago
Entrepreneurs are the sperm of venture investors. If you are a venture investor who wants to "conceive" a Google, it helps to have a high count as well as high quality. The perspective of an individual swimmer would be different, of course.

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