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by diego 14y ago
True, it's one of those semi-obvious concepts that people keep rediscovering. It's funny how people get lost in the day-to-day and forget these things.
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by diego 14y ago
I didn't think of it outside the realm of startups. However, it's obvious that there are people who cannot stop themselves from building something, while others are more driven by preserving existing value for posterity (e.g. ancient art or
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Matt Mullenweg: I’m Worried That Silicon Valley Might Be Destroying the World(pandodaily.com)
61 points by diego 14y ago|49 comments
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by diego 14y ago
That's incorrect, see link below.
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by diego 14y ago
Thanks, that's what I thought: 57% of the stock sold in the IPO came from insiders. That's very different from what the submission title says.
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by diego 14y ago
That number doesn't make any sense. Facebook only sold about 16% of its shares to the public on Friday. What is the 57% referring to?
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by diego 14y ago
I heard that large companies expect a higher level of "enterprise" support from Github. That's where the real money is, and a small company just cannot scale easily in this respect. Proper enterprise support requires customer representative
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The Real Problem with Facebook(diegobasch.com)
38 points by diego 14y ago|13 comments
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by diego 14y ago
Thanks Juanjo for the kind words. Completely agree regarding the game, and the rules are already changing. It's interesting that the same technologies that enable new kinds of startups also enable new investing models. I guess we all like c
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by diego 14y ago
You can also invest in startups as an unaccredited investor, with some restrictions. I know those laws have been revised recently. http://www.quora.com/Investing/What-are-unaccredited-investo...
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by diego 14y ago
Most people who work in Silicon Valley for a while can afford to make a few small investments like that if they choose. Others buy a nice car, or whatever. It can be seen as an expensive hobby. Many angel investors are regular working guys/
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by diego 14y ago
When I've raised funding I didn't see angel investors as "angels." I wasn't asking for favors. My company wasn't a charity. I wanted investors who believed in what we were doing, not some uncle with money who might think he was being magnan
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by diego 14y ago
It's intentional. I need to keep my ego in check, and remember that I'm only supporting cast. The entrepreneurs are the protagonists.
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by diego 14y ago
"knowing to code is hugely empowering." That is not a good reason to learn to code. Being beautiful and rich is empowering. Being tall and strong is empowering. So what? A large number of people cannot be beautiful, rich, tall, strong, or
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by diego 14y ago
Some people don't agree, but seriously: Hacker News these days is much more about startups than about hacking. Just look at the front page. This article itself is about a startup and has nothing to do with hacking.
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by diego 14y ago
I think that would be the perfect domain for Hacker News :)
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by diego 14y ago
It peaked at 241 1/2, bottomed out at 24 cents in 2001 before going up 10x again.
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by diego 14y ago
It's probably more like a 10x to 15x return, unless investors owned 100% of the company :)
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by diego 14y ago
Yes, that's true. They didn't think search would be a huge business. Back then the model was to sell search to portals charging by query volume, and it was a race to the bottom. Our Solaris servers were more expensive than Google's Linux bo
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by diego 14y ago
True. In this case, I forgot to mention that not having a world-facing UI deprived us of vital signals that Google used to improved their experience. We had query logs, but we had no idea of what our customers' users were doing within a ses
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by diego 14y ago
Yes, that talk is excellent. Deserves its own submission.
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Science as a Strategy: talk by Daniel Tunkelang (video and summary)(thenoisychannel.com)
1 points by diego 14y ago|0 comments
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by diego 14y ago
I did research, what you're seeing is part of the research process :)
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Handshakes, Term Sheets and Trust(diegobasch.com)
2 points by diego 14y ago|0 comments
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by diego 14y ago
Yeah, I give up. I just changed it.
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by diego 14y ago
http://pzxc.com/cname-on-domain-root-does-work begs to differ.
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by diego 14y ago
You already pick a ton of defaults when installing an OS (English keyboard, whatever). Same as when downloading something from a random mirror. People don't think twice about these things.
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If You Use Comcast DNS Servers, You Cannot Read This (try with www.)(diegobasch.com)
12 points by diego 14y ago|19 comments
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by diego 14y ago
It's significantly different though. I can't go into much detail, but being an acquired founder is not the same a being a hired employee.
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by diego 14y ago
That's one of those phrases that somehow rings true. However, you may be surprised by the number of "accidental" startup founders who turned out to be successful.

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