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   by djloche 14y ago

   Here's an article that has a little more depth and fewer Instagram references. http://descrier.co.uk/technology/2012/10/ancestry-com-acquir... >"The buyout group includes the private equity firm’s co-investors, members of Ancestry.com
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   by djloche 14y ago

   The larger company will have losses from unsuccessful ventures, which will offset the profits.
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   by djloche 14y ago

   If you're only changing what you're saying merely to temporarily win your audience's mindshare, it doesn't matter if you're a smarmy CEO, politician, lawyer, or programmer. You can honestly change your opinion and point of view, and you can
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   by djloche 14y ago

   I submitted this recently but this is probably a good place to link to it too: http://1014.org/?article=468 Justin Frankel (Winamp, Gnutella, etc) writes that "Ideas are worth a lot to society, but not much to individuals. Execution is th
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   by djloche 14y ago

   >"The whole point of bitcoin was to decouple currency from institutions (banks/governments etc.)."> The above statement is incorrect. The "whole point of bitcoin" per http://bitcoin.org/about.html : >"Bitcoin is designed aroun
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   by djloche 14y ago

   Here is Frankel's own TL;DR: >"TL;DR: Ideas are worth a lot to society, but not much to individuals. Execution is the opposite. Finally, some advice for anybody who wants to make things and profit from them: figure out something you can
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   Justin Frankel: Big Ideas(1014.org)

   3 points by djloche 14y ago|1 comments
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   by djloche 14y ago

   It's less pageviews and more reader engagement. You want to provide your salespeople solid evidence to convince the advertisers to pay the premium rate. While perhaps the last part of the deal is measured in ad impressions, all the other fa
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   by djloche 14y ago

   >"Pagination persists because splitting a single-page article into two pages can, in theory, yield twice as many opportunities to display ads—though in practice it doesn’t because lots of readers never bother to click past the first pag
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    by djloche 14y ago

    I just sent in my resume, it looks like an interesting take on the dating/social evening niche. Plus, I love the idea of companies pairing their employees up with dogs from local shelters.
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    by djloche 14y ago

    because Wacom makes pressure sensitive tablets/screens specifically for cases where pressure sensitive is necessary. Apple would need to outright purchase Wacom if they were going to incorporate pressure sensitive screens - because to do it
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    by djloche 14y ago

    Apple bought up several companies that did have relevant patents and technology. Google did the same thing. In the age of nuclear patents, you either have to have tons of money to license patents, buy companies that own patents, or successf
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    by djloche 14y ago

    Mastercard & Visa v (Merchants) recently settled an antitrust lawsuit regarding this practice. > http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-13/visa-mastercard-set... >The agreement, which provides for a temporary reduction in rates
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    by djloche 14y ago

    Yep. I was involved in a local 'pitch your startup to a room full of investors' conference. Guess who 'won' the contest and had everyone talking about it? The three college kids with a mobile app that flat out said, we don't need your money
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    by djloche 14y ago

    Click on a card -> add a label.
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    by djloche 14y ago

    I would argue that hiring lawyers is like hiring developers in SV. There are many developers but if you want to hire A class developers, you have to pay A class rates and compete with everyone else trying to hire A class developers. Lawyer
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    by djloche 14y ago

    "They did not earn it. _______ charge exorbitant prices because they can -- they have you by the balls, and you don't really have an option not to pay them -- not because their services are actually worth ______." I've heard this sort of st
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    by djloche 14y ago

    The way I copied facebook contact information was to sync to yahoo contacts, then export yahoo contacts, then import into google contacts. I'm not sure how this would work on/in the mobile ecosystem, but I'd have to imagine that getting on
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    by djloche 14y ago

    It may not be secret, but if you choose to have the @facebook.com email address listed on your profile, it suggests that the @facebook.com email address is an appropriate email address to contact you at. I hid it from my contact informatio
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    by djloche 14y ago

    Nowhere do I lay claim to making decisions for AOL. While I doubt they are interested, if AOL wishes to hire me for such purposes, I am available. I pointed out that it was my opinion that the cost of the resources that Eric used was less t
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    by djloche 14y ago

    "They've been embarrassed in the press" They've actually been profiled as a reasonable company that invests in the future. How many people reading this article know AOL as "that company that first sent me discs in the mail" and previously t
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    by djloche 14y ago

    FYI, when you look at individual median income instead of household, it's worse: individual median income: $26,680/yr, single: $18,881/yr, married: $32,033/yr, divorced: $28,668/yr, widowed: $18,485/yr Half the population is making less tha
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    by djloche 14y ago

    >"I can't rationalize that being worth a few million bucks though." The skills and experiences are worth more than a few million dollars. >"I love what I do, and I've built something users love." You have a success story, don't sit
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    by djloche 14y ago

    This comment reminds me of what Arrington wrote regarding yahoo ( http://uncrunched.com/2012/05/07/someone-better-than-that/ )
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    by djloche 14y ago

    Why not become an expert at both? If you ever decide to have your own startup, being able to do the work yourself vs having to pay something else to do becomes your greatest asset in the initial stages.
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    by djloche 15y ago

    Simply put: the lack of work/life balance due to not setting environmental boundaries at the onset of self employment had destroyed your productivity within both work and life. I suggest continuing to work from an office of some sort - be i
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    by djloche 15y ago

    Since English is not your native language, perhaps the right question you may be wondering is how much does it cost to publish/print physical copy of a book? Using Lulu's print on demand service, you can get a single 300 page hardcover book
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    by djloche 15y ago

    While I agree with the general sentiment expressed (people buy poor quality headphones that leak music and proceed to seemingly obliviously blast their music for all to hear), please consider investigating higher quality headphones & th
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    by djloche 15y ago

    No. You should learn to code in your free time, then leverage your new skills to get a promotion and raise. Contribute to open source projects and build mvp style learning projects. If you are still serious about changing careers, keep work
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    by djloche 15y ago

    For those wondering, here are the individual income medians from the 2010 census (all numbers are pre-tax gross income): individual median income: $26,680/yr, single: $18,881/yr, married: $32,033/yr, divorced: $28,668/yr, widowed: $18,48