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by dkrich 15y ago
Another reason why I'm not a fan of these corporate campuses made to look like amusement parks. I don't like the idea of my office becoming a place to hang out, eat, and take naps. There's something depressing to me about the idea of a comp
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by dkrich 15y ago
C'mon, you really think you can assess whether you would want to hang out with somebody from a couple of short, isolated interactions? Most of my good friends only became so after extended periods of time and learning the nuances of each ot
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by dkrich 15y ago
I completely agree, and it's not because I think he is necessarily wrong. It's just that business rules of any kind are so freaking ridiculous. One person's interpretation of the "right" reasons are no more valid than one person's opinion o
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by dkrich 15y ago
Well as somebody who has built stores from scratch and used Shopify, I don't think Shopify is a bad deal actually. Even when I build my own from scratch, I still have to pay for hosting that runs at least $30/month. Of course Shopify also t
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by dkrich 15y ago
I'm curious about the decision to not charge more. I think you may be assuming that people won't pay a setup or monthly fee to get a single product up, but I think you may be leaving money on the table. I could see this being a great way fo
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by dkrich 15y ago
Right, but if you are always using the default app for each (which I would have to believe the vast majority of people are), there isn't much added value to being able to edit files in Google Docs. As long as the file itself is being mainta
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by dkrich 15y ago
I disagree and I have no affiliation with Dropbox or have any vested interest in their success. I just tend to think that the optimal cloud solution is as close to invisible as possible while letting people use whichever software tools they
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by dkrich 15y ago
I completely agree. I don't really think there is any net gain to having people dislike you. I guess the optimal situation would be to do what you like but still have lots of friends from a wide variety of groups like you. It never hurts to
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by dkrich 15y ago
Hmm, interesting points. Maybe you noticed that the service JUST LAUNCHED in the Boston area. I'm pretty happy to see this because just today I was wondering why apartment hunting sucks so bad. I've been looking in DC for two weeks now and
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by dkrich 15y ago
I like this. I also like the current design. I don't particularly think one is significantly more effective than the other on the surface. I think the redesign is somewhat distracting because there is text all over the place, some big, some
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by dkrich 15y ago
Aren't both scenarios you are describing essentially the same thing?
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by dkrich 15y ago
Well I don't think it all breaks down that cleanly in reality though. Everybody has dreams and some people pursue them 100% doing what they have to to get by in the interim, and some just categorize them as dreams and never really pursue th
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by dkrich 15y ago
At the risk of sounding cynical, I wonder how much it actually matters. We tend to live our lives thinking as we go that we should be striving to end up at some optimal place and that the purpose of our lives is desperately trying to keep u
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by dkrich 15y ago
Yes it has worked for Google for sure. But in response I would say try counting the number of billion dollar companies with a "Google" culture and the number with a "Siebel" culture and see which list grows faster.
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by dkrich 15y ago
I know a lot of people associate dress codes and rules with boring offices and asshole bosses, and there are certainly a lot of companies that have both. But I think that if proper management is assumed, formality shows a respect for your w
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by dkrich 15y ago
You're not creating the "correct" culture, you're just trading one kind of culture for another. I work to make money. I don't like it when work bleeds into my personal life. When I leave the office at 5 or 6, I am done for the day. That way
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by dkrich 15y ago
Ha, it must have been, because the URL still says "fumbled."
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by dkrich 15y ago
Is it just me, or does this seem like a pretty savvy investment by A/H? They got their money into both companies, and ended up getting back (if the article is to be believed), a 400x return on their investment. There was a time and place wh
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by dkrich 15y ago
Will I be able to make a photo-sharing app with this?
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by dkrich 15y ago
> Hipstamatic chose the revenue-first approach (they apparently made plenty of money) and Instagram chose the adoption-first approach. Which one is more valuable (and you must include strategic value in this evaluation!) right now? Clea
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by dkrich 15y ago
There's a lot wrong with this, but I'll just say that there are many more than two ways to value a company, and if you used the first type he cites (taking the net present value of future profits) you are effectively ignoring any assets the
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by dkrich 15y ago
My issue isn't so much with design but rather the fact that you have to register a new account with them every time you want to use a new service. This is almost certainly legacy complexity from the days that these services were not exposed
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by dkrich 15y ago
I don't really get what his passion was. He states that he followed his passion and became a teacher, but having never worked as a teacher, there must have been some aspects of teaching that he thought would be fulfilling. Most of the time
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by dkrich 15y ago
Would that have been true when Jobs was 27? Evidently not since it was around that time that he was booted from his own company.
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by dkrich 15y ago
Strategically I am missing why Instagram is even viewed as a threat to Facebook. It seems like a complementary service. If Instagram tried to go the route of forcing you to be a member and only share photos with other Instagram users, nobod
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by dkrich 15y ago
I'm thinking that his point (which I agree with) is that if a photo-sharing app with twelve people and no revenue can come from nowhere in less than two years to threaten Facebook's very existence, Facebook may not be worth $100 billion. I
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by dkrich 15y ago
Here's my take on it- if you are reading for personal accounts or advice on whether to start a business, the best advice comes from people who have done it. To me, that is the target audience for this author's advice, and precisely the reas
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by dkrich 15y ago
Who said I wrote them off? I am writing off the author of this article. This article is about 5% substance, 30% quotes from other people, and the rest is a mixture of vague personal opinions and forewarnings about the realities of the odds
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by dkrich 15y ago
Without finishing the article, or knowing anything about the author, I knew that this couldn't be somebody who has ever tried his hand at starting a business. The fact that he repeatedly quotes Eric Ries and Steve Blank makes this article a
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by dkrich 15y ago
I can't help but think a lot of people find fault with this because they don't want to believe that it could be possible to start a business this way because they didn't think of it first. But you know full and well that whatever employment

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