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by diego 14y ago
This post is extremely misinformed. The reason both Facebook and Twitter decided to go with ads instead of selling access to the platform is that they ran the numbers. By the time they picked their business models they had already taken in
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Viral Marketing Lessons From Dropbox(blog.hubspot.com)
1 points by diego 14y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Acquires Social Influence Measurement Start-Up Threadsy(allthingsd.com)
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Lightning Fast, Dirt Cheap: Bitcoin Shows What Banking Could Be(americanbanker.com)
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Is Venture Capital Broken?(blogs.hbr.org)
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by diego 14y ago
The implication of this article is that being covered by Techcrunch is somehow vital to the launch of a startup. It isn't; that's the bullshit Techcrunch wants everyone to believe. I too like Zimride, but I'm flagging this article because i
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India threatens to shut down Twitter(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by diego 14y ago|0 comments
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The Twitter Tragedy(slate.com)
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Why big companies buy, sell your data(edition.cnn.com)
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by diego 14y ago
You didn't understand my point. The advertisers are not the ones who subsidize users. Users who click on ads subsidize users who don't. You are also repeating the last part of my post!
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by diego 14y ago
It's not meant to be taken literally. I'm using a figure of speech called hyperbole to drive a point.
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by diego 14y ago
Google would probably consider that if the price were right. They can afford to run Twitter for a while at break-even or a loss, like they did with Gmail or Youtube. It may not be as good a business as Youtube, but for them it would be a ni
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Facebook launches 'Sponsored Results' today(theverge.com)
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Amazon Election Heat Map 2012 (uses book purchase data)(amazon.com)
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by diego 14y ago
This article posted here four months ago is much better: http://evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3792627
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Silicon Valley != The Internet (The CEO of Yammer says the darndest things)(diegobasch.com)
64 points by diego 14y ago|23 comments
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by diego 14y ago
Software that learns like a human is like a car that gallops like a horse. I don't see the point.
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by diego 14y ago
It's not just the graph. Intent is very fleeting. You can't know "instantaneous intent" from someone's history and graph (e.g. what will be my next Google query?) More about this point on my blog if you're interested: http://diegobasch.com
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by diego 14y ago
Why is that question interesting? To me, it's like asking why water is wet. "Good people" leave "good jobs" for an unimaginably large array of reasons. I've left good jobs to go back to school, to start a company, to take time off, because
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Wilson Miner - When We Build (38m talk)(vimeo.com)
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WTF k: Measuring Ineffectiveness in IR and Recommender Systems(thenoisychannel.com)
9 points by diego 14y ago|1 comments
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by diego 14y ago
There is no such thing as "consistently happy." If you're interested in the subject, I recommend paying attention to Daniel Kahneman's work instead of vapid self-helpy blog posts. http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_expe
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by diego 14y ago
Why do you take it as a given that the founder's priority is the team? As a founder you have different stakeholders. Perhaps your investors have been with you for years and your team just joined, or the opposite. Like the article says, you
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by diego 14y ago
Nobody says that display ads don't work, of course they do. The point is that they don't justify Facebook's hype or valuation. It's a matter of numbers, and it's perfectly fair to compare both. There's a reason Google is by far the most val
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by diego 14y ago
I agree. That's one thing Google figured out early on. It's much easier to not degrade the experience when you can match an ad to a query, because you can make sure that it appears relevant.
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Facebook and Twitter Don’t Know What You Want(diegobasch.com)
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by diego 14y ago
The problem with Twitter is that they took way, way too much investment money. Now that we know what Twitter looks like, you could build it from scratch for much less. If Twitter dies because it's impossible to sustain the valuation their i
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by diego 14y ago
It's possible, but run the numbers. Companies that would pay for that * monthly price = ? Very hard to justify a Twitter-like valuation with that.
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by diego 14y ago
Quora's latest investment round (May) valued the company at $400M [1]. According to Alexa, Quora has perhaps 1% of the traffic of Wikipedia. It seems to me that Quora has two options: 1) Be acquired by Facebook or Google. The problem is tha
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by diego 14y ago
Agree, the title is poorly editorialized. Proofs and validations are very different things. Validation is about being confident that a model can make useful predictions.

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