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by dlevine 15y ago
I actually though about Amazon when I saw people starting to rag on Groupon and its bottom line. Another important thing to remember is that Amazon actually figured out its business model later. For a while, it was pretty much just a dot-co
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by dlevine 15y ago
The funny thing is that they just ripped off 37 signals' marketing page. Not to say that this strategy won't work - just that the "redesign" involved some heavy borrowing. I recognized it because I just used 37 signals' page as the basis fo
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by dlevine 15y ago
ZumoDrive was acquired by Motorola. http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/22/confirmed-motorola-mobility...
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by dlevine 15y ago
Looks like the site pointed to in that column is now owned by a domain squatter. I guess that Amazon had the last laugh...
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by dlevine 16y ago
A friend of mine has said that there are three things someone can bring to a startup - The ability to build a product - The ability to bring in money (either VC or sales) - The ability to tolerate risk As a technical founder who has worked
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by dlevine 16y ago
It cost me about $1000 recently to dissolve a Delaware Corporation.
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by dlevine 16y ago
This argument is stupid. Overall, they won't sell more than a few of these cards. The vast majority of computers out there (I would guess 99%) can't support a card like this. At the mid-range, the two need to remain essentially price-compet
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by dlevine 16y ago
1000 hours sounds like a lot of hours for a contract to work with a startup. Does this mean that he's considering bringing you on as a cofounder, or would this be more of an advisory role? Even if I plan to potentially come on full time and
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by dlevine 16y ago
This is great. I grew up in Baltimore, but headed to the Bay Area after college because that's where all of the action is in the high-tech space. My mom always tries to convince me that Baltimore is becoming a high-tech hub, and maybe it ac
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by dlevine 16y ago
I didn't have Prime until very recently. My rationale was that I pretty much always got free shipping anyways (Super Saver is free if you purchase more than $25 at a time, which isn't hard, and I don't care about the delivery date). However
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by dlevine 16y ago
I had a T41p at a previous job - amazing laptop. I actually traded in a Powerbook G4 for it. No issues with it, ever (except that the battery life declined to nothing after a couple of years, and the battery had to be replaced). A few years
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by dlevine 16y ago
Why is that a boneheaded move? I think that 1280x800 fits plenty of information on a 13" screen. I usually run an external display for more space. If anything, 1400x900 on the new MBA seems a little bit small (and Apple doesn't allow you to
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by dlevine 16y ago
I know a lot of people who could tell you the name of every startup that launched on TechCrunch last week. Pretty much none of them have been successful. My advice to most of these people is "take a month off of the blogs and actually do so
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by dlevine 16y ago
I HATE interview questions that ask the candidate to write some trivial piece of code. Particularly the ones that need to be written in C to give an optimal answer "if you just do pointer math, this would be trivial..." Not to say that some
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by dlevine 16y ago
The phone 4 for Verizon uses a dual-mode chipset (same as the druid pro) - they just haven't added a SIM slot to it. The smart money is on the next iPhone supporting both (it will have to anyways in order to support LTE data). If the CDMA p
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by dlevine 16y ago
I'm not sure that I agree with the tenets of this article. Silicon Valley Engineers don't seem underpaid to me. Sure we could potentially make more in finance, but that doesn't mean we are underpaid. I feel like there are a number of things
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by dlevine 16y ago
I meet a lot of first-time entrepreneurs who think that a company is some sort of magic thing that will give them credibility. In reality, it usually just costs you money in many cases. I've learned that the most important thing is building
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by dlevine 16y ago
It's a bit surprising that Nokia wouldn't go for another Linux-based platform (Android), but I guess that anything is better than their current strategy. I guess that WP7 will allow them to provide an alternative to all the Android devices
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by dlevine 16y ago
I've tried working in the library on a number of occasions. The one bad thing I've discovered is that the WIFI sucks at pretty much every public library I've worked at. And I think that's a sample size of 4 or 5 libraries. I live almost rig
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by dlevine 16y ago
I've found that this sometimes happens because I have serious second thoughts about some aspect of the project (maybe I don't know how it could ever make money, or it seems like it would be difficult to acquire users). The most effective th
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by dlevine 16y ago
After my startup failed (and all of the pivots we could think of didn't work), I tried a few other ideas with different partners. None of those worked, and I ended up doing consulting work (mostly for other startups) for a while. It paid ok
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by dlevine 16y ago
I feel like the problem is often the opposite one. I'm plugging a USB device into the back of my PC, and can't see the direction that the USB port is facing. Some of the motherboard shields sit out far enough that, even if you look back the
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by dlevine 16y ago
Android device support really depends on your carrier. Some carriers are MUCH better than others at releasing updates. If you're willing to go the unsupported route, most popular phones seem to have unofficial ROMs available. You can defini
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by dlevine 16y ago
I actually prefer 16:9 widescreens for development. The wider the display, the more likely I will be able to fit two windows side by side. Real estate at the bottom doesn't matter all that much, because modern systems make scrolling effortl
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Entrepreneur Talk vs Engineer Talk(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
11 points by dlevine 16y ago|0 comments
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So You Want To Join A Startup?(blog.thirdyearmba.com)
44 points by dlevine 16y ago|9 comments
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by dlevine 16y ago
I think that all of these (or at least most of them) are reasonable ideas that could work. I think the biggest problem is that a lot of them are either technically difficult or involve entering crowded markets. For example, the Craigslist k
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by dlevine 16y ago
My father died very suddenly about a year ago. It came as a total shock - one day he was just gone. I walked around in a daze for a few months, and I'll admit that it was nearly six months before I started to get back on my feet. This was o
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by dlevine 16y ago
Right now I'm working for a small startup, and we've been interacting a lot with big companies. I feel like a significant percentage of my time is made up of doing "fake work." There are a lot of conference calls with like 15 people on them
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by dlevine 16y ago
I'm not sure if bonuses have gone down recently, but a few years back (when I was there), bonuses of 40% were pretty common. Even though some people said that Google paid "below market," when you take into account that kind of bonus (and so

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