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by dlevine 15y ago
Scaffold FULLTIME in New York City We're building a credit score for all your collaborative activity. We rate people, and determine whether they are safe to deal with in-person on collaborative Peer-To-Peer marketplaces (think AirBnb or Tut
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What does getting older teach you about startups?(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
4 points by dlevine 15y ago|0 comments
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by dlevine 15y ago
Chrome should integrate this into the Browser. That way, Google could "protect" you against "privacy violations" by Facebook. It could show a little warning at the top of the screen, and allow you to edit the permissions (kind of like what
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by dlevine 15y ago
It has a slow processor and is stuck on version 2 of the Kindle OS (the processor is the same speed as the Kindle 3, but much slower than the Kindle 4, and the RAM is the same as Kindle2). I just upgraded my Kindle 2 to the new Kindle (the
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by dlevine 15y ago
The reason why Google is already facing mid-life crises is that the pace of innovation has sped up so much. It used to be that a company could build something like Google and sit on its laurels for 20 years. IBM was the undisputed king for
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by dlevine 15y ago
I find that the surest sign that a company is not a meritocracy is when the CEO regularly states this. Kind of like how most Communist countries are known as "The People's Republic."
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by dlevine 15y ago
It's likely he made enough from the sale of his last startup that he wouldn't care about an exit. Thus, this could be his signal that he's staying in this company for the long-run. Since he doesn't plan to sell the company, stock probably w
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One Plus One is Often Less Than Two(blog.metatocracy.com)
3 points by dlevine 15y ago|0 comments
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by dlevine 15y ago
To be fair, at an extremely early-stage startup, no one really knows who will eventually fill the executive roles. There is a good chance that the founding "CEO" will no longer serve in the CEO role a few years down the line (particularly i
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Sometimes It's What's Inside That Counts(blog.unioncube.com)
4 points by dlevine 15y ago|0 comments
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Free Newspapers, Free Software(blog.unioncube.com)
6 points by dlevine 15y ago|0 comments
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Fighting The Upgrade Compulsion(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
5 points by dlevine 15y ago|0 comments
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What a Nerd Looks For in a Non-Technical Cofounder(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
14 points by dlevine 15y ago|1 comments
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Kindle Fire: Is and Isn't(thirdyearmba.tumblr.com)
7 points by dlevine 15y ago|0 comments
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by dlevine 15y ago
The difference between Amazon and the other manufacturers is that Amazon isn't selling this as Android. They are selling it as a proprietary tablet that they support as such. The other manufacturers sell "Android" devices, and when it doesn
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by dlevine 15y ago
As the OP, I will admit that this is rather ridiculous. The link appears to work in my standard web browser, but when I go to another browser where I'm not logged in to my account, I get the Posterous Spaces front page. This seems like rath
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Knowing When To Quit (and When to Stick It Out)(posterous.com)
8 points by dlevine 15y ago|3 comments
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by dlevine 15y ago
My condolences on your loss. Losing a parent is hard - I lost my father almost two years ago, and I still think about him almost every day. Hopefully the happy memories of her will help you to get through the tough times.
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Ask HN: Is the jobs section broken?
11 points by dlevine 15y ago|1 comments
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by dlevine 15y ago
I have found that I usually start working on pet projects when I am dissatisfied with my job. At my last job, I found myself working on several different extracurricular projects at once. I kind of realized that this meant it was time to le
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by dlevine 15y ago
Good luck, Chad. A while back, I hit a point where I felt like my startup wasn't going to make it. I needed a change. I took a job with an established startup, and about a year later, I was ready to move on and do my own thing again. This i
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by dlevine 15y ago
I sort of worry that it's hard for someone to be the executive tastemaker unless he is at the top. With operations types running the company, it will be difficult for any of the creative types to be heard. Steve Jobs is irreplaceable - I'm
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by dlevine 15y ago
For $2800 it had better have an SSD. Compared with a 320GB HDD, a 256GB SSD would only add $2-300 to the price of the laptop.
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by dlevine 15y ago
I have a Unicomp Spacesaver that I've been using for the past several months. I love it, and the RSI I had from before I started using it seems to have diminished significantly (although I have changed a bunch of other variables). It is eve
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by dlevine 15y ago
For the record, ZumoDrive didn't do ZumoDrive when they were in YC. They did Versionate, a versioned Wiki. Your observation does still stand, though.
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by dlevine 15y ago
It seems likely that they were talent acquired by one of the big tech companies. I have seen similar things in the past (etacts sent a cryptic message like this when salesforce bought them).
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by dlevine 15y ago
Having moved to the Bay Area from Boston when I started doing startups, I can say that the problem is more of a structural issue than just "not letting the next big one get away." Whenever we talked to East Coast VCs, they wanted our startu
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by dlevine 15y ago
I actually came into this situation with my current startup. My partner had the MVP built by contractors before I came on. He is completely BD/sales, but he had a close advisor who helped him get the product built. Honestly, this is kind of
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by dlevine 15y ago
I think that the way to succeed is NOT to fuck over your co-founder. I know of places where that has happened, and it is not a happy situation. You don't really want to optimize for the present, but on building connections that you will kee
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Let's Not Completely Give Up on College(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
33 points by dlevine 15y ago|11 comments

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