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by dlevine 17y ago
One BIG problem with charging for online newspaper access is that it's currently given away for free. Once you give something away, people react very badly if you start charging for it (eg Jot). This mistake has killed a number of software
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by dlevine 17y ago
I wouldn't say that Apple is the only one in the >$1000 market. However, they are the only one who is successful in that market. My last two laptops have been Macs (iBook and then Macbook). I didn't see them as high-end machines, althou
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by dlevine 17y ago
So what he's saying here is, "surround yourself with people smarter than you." This is good advice. Whenever you feel like you're not being challenged any more, it's time to move on.
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by dlevine 17y ago
What was your primary motivation for starting this company?
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by dlevine 17y ago
Internal representation is different from display representation. So long as it looks good on a screen, I don't really care what the markup looks like. You can then represent it internally in any format that you want. XML sounds good, becau
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by dlevine 17y ago
I think that DRM for music is only maligned because the major players weren't able to come up with a single unified scheme (either for encryption or for encoding). As a result, it becomes a distraction, because not every song plays on any p
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by dlevine 17y ago
Remember that you're comparing MS in the 90s to Google today, which is an unfair comparison. When I worked at Google (2004-2007), a few of the smartest developers I knew didn't have college degrees. People like Aaron Boodman, who wrote Grea
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by dlevine 17y ago
One of my favorites is "In Search Of Stupidity", by Merrill Chapman. It talks about the marketing mistakes that ultimately killed a lot of top tech companies.
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Strategies for Offering Discounts Without Tarnishing Reputation(blog.instantq.com)
1 points by dlevine 17y ago|1 comments
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InstantQ (YC S09) Looking For a Sales Person
10 points by dlevine 17y ago
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by dlevine 17y ago
Too complicated. Anything worth having should be explainable in 30 seconds. I watched the first ten minutes of the Google Wave presentation, and still didn't understand what was going on. Maybe it has some cool features, but I think that it
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by dlevine 17y ago
I was in a similar situation a few years ago. I worked for a couple of top software companies, and had a job that most people would have loved. But, somehow I was unsatisfied. It got harder and harder to do productive work. After some soul