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PG, what do you think of the book?
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I think there is a problem with the algorithm that is used for pages getting to the front page, to be honest. Pretty much every comment on here is about how vapid this post is, but how did it get to the front page???
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Err, Yahoo is making less profit, but it's still making $1B profit on the bottom line last year. Why is everyone acting like it's on it's beyond redemption? Sure, Yahoo and Microsoft are boring, but they're still profitable. http://investi
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It is possible to have a social and work life balance. As an entrepreneur it will always weigh towards work but doing 6-7 days (80 hours) a week for years shows either that you enjoy it or there is a problem in product or delegation abiliti
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The irony is that Techcrunch started using Facebook Comments to decrease the amount of trolls. http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/06/techcrunch-facebook-comment...
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(off topic but thought others might be interested) What is the difference between BidSketch and Quoteroller? I ask because i tried a trial of Quoteroller and it didnt work and had never heard of your site before now.
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VC money is generally for businesses that need to accelerate growth rapidly (ie have a big first mover advantage etc) and have a huge upside at the end of it.
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Life at the "top" is lonely. Explaining to people what you're doing would probably have most people put you in a mental asylum. One of the things about this that he is trying to explain is that when youre the CEO of a start up you're doing
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most companies are based on B and C players, its one of the reasons that a lot of big companies have so many management layers.
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Look for a book called Topgrading, it's a methodology and defines A,B and C players. Roughly from memory: A's are smart, get things done. The important thing is: An A player in one role may not be an A player in another role. If you put y
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They didnt mention that a lot of Australians go overseas to work for companies, which could be a boon for us if an ecosystem blooms here, as I know a lot of entrepreneurs would love to move back to australia for the lifestyle.
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"[No] Australians are much more risk adverse" I think they mean averse in this phrase its not that Australians are more risk averse, its that we have a culture of "tall poppy syndrome", which means that people that tend to become outliers
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here's mine: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4018867
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there are a lot of legal fees to set up the kind of employee equity plan that can cost a few thousand dollars in the US. we're talking 10-30 times as expensive.
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humans can look 5-8 moves ahead with practice. GM's can probably look 15 or so moves ahead as well as study tactics of regular positions such as openings.
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we do a reference check and although this wouldnt normally tell us much we can also structure it this way: 1. get their last 3 (or so) jobs on their resume. 2. During phone interview, ask the person how their last three bosses would rate th
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With all the hype about Lean Startup and Agile etc I think it would be worthwhile going over a simple SWOT analysis for a lot of these built-on-API companies. If you're going to use an API then you need to create a business that will surv
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They created a product that was against their TOS. It's pretty simple really. If they are doing a great job and are so much better than CL then no doubt everyone will come back and use their site now they have the realtors on board. I disli
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your opinions would be easier to take if you supplied evidence that you know what you talk about.
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A few points: - The only people I know that use and are excited by putting QR codes in are nerds and/or marketers. I think it serves to quench our thirst for something shiny that is a technological hack. Most people dont feel the same way t
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searching for keywords seems to work quite well. I think the problem is that for people that have problems navigating the web to start with, using QR codes will be tougher than just suing the search bar on their iPhone etc
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Keep in mind that Sivers is a massive workaholic
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Wow these articles really show how far the hacker community is oblivious to the effects of this kind of thing on their work. The whole point is that startups are leaving themselves up to litigation and even worse (from the company perspect
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from my personal experience I have never used Gumroad before, so if it was $9.95 from Amazon and $9.95 from Gumroad then i would have bought from Amazon. I think you may have made the same profit but your readership would have been much low
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can anyone that has done the research write up the fixed and variable costs of different payment services and report back to us?
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The Lean Methodology is what small businesses have been doing since companies were created. I assumed that they took it and adapted it to tech business.
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He's not saying to ignore all the other aspects of life or business.
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The truth is that there is an observation bias at play where people that are negative about experiences go to do that and people that are positive go to other places to do that. The truth is that as CEO the buck stops with you, for good or
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Epictetus was born into slavery, was lame, became a free man somehow, presumably from studying philosophy, then was banned from Rome for being a philosopher. I'd say he argues the same point as this article in that he was happy regardless o
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Hi matt, I used to work on MPS 3a and did some studies on non-viral gene therapy to treat it in the central nervous system. Do you know if the enzyme crosses the blood brain barrier? It was a few years ago, but feel free to ask questions.

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