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Oculus VR raises $75M(venturebeat.com)
288 points by dm8 13y ago|97 comments
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Marissa Mayer's Next Big Acquisition Could Be Imgur(businessinsider.com)
1 points by dm8 13y ago|0 comments
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by dm8 13y ago
Majority of VCs/investors (particularly in the bay area) don't give significant importance to cold approach. Lot of savvy founders are aware of this.
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by dm8 13y ago
Although, Everpix was great as a product it was market that killed their chances. Today, for every photo I take from iPhone it is backed to Google+ and iCloud. And then there are other platforms like Flickr etc. However, I believe Everpix h
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by dm8 13y ago
Is working at a startup mandatory as part of curriculum then? Also, every startup has tons of different problems at micro level even though macro themes are consistent (e.g. getting new customers etc.). It will be hard to generalize problem
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by dm8 13y ago
How can you have formal education in Entrepreneurship? It's pretty much on job type of learning. Not trying to be snarky but I'm genuinely curious.
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by dm8 13y ago
That was fascinating read. Kudos to the team for opening up their finances and talking about them openly. It brought some scary memories when I was in a similar situation a while ago and had trouble paying AWS bills even though they were mu
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by dm8 13y ago
I think it is about the decisiveness of a founder. It's not about asking her to come at 9. It's about having a team ready by Monday and flying people from out of town. Although, I appreciate that the designer took his offer seriou
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by dm8 13y ago
Most users don't even care about going to second page of search. With knowledge graph, Google gives you precise answer right away and takes full screen on mobile (nearly half of the screen on desktop). I think Google is optimizing for
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by dm8 13y ago
Looks like there is a pattern - New Google Analytics landing page - http://www.google.com/analytics/ Or Google Hangouts landing page - http://www.google.com/hangouts/
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by dm8 13y ago
How much time does it take for NYT to make these interactive stories? (pure technology not data collection or field journalism) If it's not significant then this is certainly future of journalism. [EDIT]: Looking at couple of interacti
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by dm8 13y ago
Doing IPO means raising money from public markets. So with IPO money, they believe they can buy lot of companies, hire people and make it really profitable business. FB/Google/LinkedIn didn't have to go public but they had to
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by dm8 13y ago
Looks like they are betting on potential. To be honest, Twitter is so mainstream that it is entirely new medium of news/discovery/conversation just like Radio/TV/Internet. I'm sure they will be extremely profitable
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by dm8 13y ago
Letter from founders/company seems to be really short and to the point, just like Twitter itself. No grandiose words but simple mission - "..to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without ba
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by dm8 13y ago
Monetizing isn't bad. But advertising is unimaginative. Ads is not an easy business. You have two sets of customers, i.e. users and marketers. Striking a balance between the needs of both of these sets is always a key. Also, you need t
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by dm8 13y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you feel them 'intrusive'? Don't you think they are better since you can completely ignore them by scrolling down rather than taking you hostage to watch 30 second video or interstitial?
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by dm8 13y ago
AdsNative - http://adsnative.com/ - San Francisco, CA We are building ad-server & suite of tools to fix advertising on mobile. In short, we are making digital advertising content driven and enjoyable. Like you, we also
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by dm8 13y ago
Why just "CEO"? Why not startup founder? Isn't it applicable to all the founders too?
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by dm8 13y ago
I'm curious, how is it different from IndexTank (which was acquired by LinkedIn)?
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by dm8 13y ago
Fair use doctrine is great and it was fascinating to learn about when I was a grad student at Berkeley. We need to educate people about fair use so that everyone knows how some of these lawsuits are ridiculous. Anyone interested in how copy
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by dm8 13y ago
Why? What was the reasoning?
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by dm8 13y ago
On a side note, is there anyway we can donate money to his family. ~ $1500 with 36% interest is lot of money for his poor Nepalese family and I doubt they will be able to repay that debt. I guess they will have to work rest of their life ju
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by dm8 13y ago
They are well aware of working conditions. I'm sure some migrant workers might be returning to Nepal and this type of information spreads quickly within rural communities. And Nepalese people will still work for them. Poverty makes peo
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by dm8 13y ago
They were so confident about their search results that they were giving links to their competitors' websites at the bottom of their page
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by dm8 13y ago
Lot of Indians also work in these countries due to poverty reasons. I feel privileged to be born in a relatively wealthy and educated family in India. If it was not the case may be I would have one of the migrant workers like them. If these
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Good Ideas Still Get Funded (2001)(businessweek.com)
2 points by dm8 13y ago|0 comments
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by dm8 13y ago
"a significant uptick in the number of parties, hot girls roaming bars trying to chat with any guy that looks like he might be an engineer and looking for a job" That is a pretty bad strategy to hire from founder's perspectiv
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Dawn of a revolution: When Bill Gates was at Harvard(news.harvard.edu)
2 points by dm8 13y ago|0 comments
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by dm8 13y ago
Discovering new content. I follow influential people in the areas that I'm interested in. And they are always sharing interesting links/insights/opinions. And I also share some!
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by dm8 13y ago
Congrats, Twitter. Another product that was mocked as a "toy" becomes revolutionary and finally going to raise money on public market. I use twitter everyday and it is my primary information network. I'm sure they will be suc

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