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by dm8 13y ago
I'm not questioning your judgement of Steve's personality. But it surprises me that person like Steve can be so successful. Moreover, how did he recruit and manage so many world class developers and designers? Not once. But thrice - Apple,
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by dm8 13y ago
So screen resolution is 640 x 360px. Looks like lot of interesting applications can be build with that real estate! Weather, Maps etc. are some to come to my mind right away.
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by dm8 14y ago
Apparently, LinkedIn paid them 90M - http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/linkedin-acquires-pulse-for... Wow. There are so many RSS readers but congrats to Pulse team on executing well. How it fits into LinkedIn's product roadmap?
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by dm8 14y ago
- Tiny robot comes and puts my keys in key holder. - Turn on coffee-maker or juice-maker once I'm home
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by dm8 14y ago
Indeed! MBA was meant to train junior managers from big co's. It's objective was to train them to do better management with things like people, operations and finances. Nowadays, getting MBA means changing career or shortcut to entrepreneur
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by dm8 14y ago
I agree with OP on overall premise. Majority of startups look boring at the start. Just doing software for computers was considered boring in 70s. So was yet another search engine. Peer-to-peer money transfer using Internet, who would've t
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by dm8 14y ago
What makes you think we'd a bubble in place? And if we had then what makes you think it is going to pop?
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by dm8 14y ago
My startup is in digital advertising (includes desktop, phones and tablets) space. And I know digital advertising is hated by users. There are three main reasons, online ads are obnoxious, obtrusive and invade end-user privacy. Lets step b
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by dm8 14y ago
I would love to use this product! I was talking with my team recently about having product similar to heap and we've used bunch of analytics products in the past. @Founders of Heap: I would love to do beta test for you guys. When do you guy
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by dm8 14y ago
Woz is uber hacker! I loved that story where he says how he hacked pay to watch movies system at hotels. Only someone who has 'tinkering' psyche can do stuff like that.
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Google’s Keep Note-Taking Web And Android App Gets Its Official Public Launch(techcrunch.com)
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by dm8 14y ago
It's important to remember Mark controlled the board (I guess he still controls now). So it was down to his decision. However, lets admire him for not selling at that time. He could have earned quarter billion at that time but his reasoning
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by dm8 14y ago
Sales 101 is missing here. You research someone whom you approach via cold email. Not randomly blasting email every blogger.
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by dm8 14y ago
Apple doesn't sell software or hardware. They sell 'experience'. And for the best experience they design their own hardware that is optimized for their own software. Their competitors on the other hand have different focus. AMZN is all abou
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by dm8 14y ago
Very true for startups where growth is only thing that matters. I work at a startup and we've been wondering whether mediocrity is worse than failure. I think it holds true for startups but not much for other things in life.
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by dm8 14y ago
Do you genuinely think they did not think about aforementioned approaches? They might have made money via subscription route but they will make more money via ads.
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by dm8 14y ago
As my history teacher would say, "to learn from our own (we as a society) past"
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by dm8 14y ago
Outside bay area and startups world, windows servers are gold standard. Particularly, large enterprises. They have created nice lock-ins too. Majority of large enterprises (not just in US but around world) have Windows stack meaning majorit
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by dm8 14y ago
I don't understand the hoopla behind edgerank. Personally, I really like it. My feed is much cleaner. I get all status updates from the most important people in my life. And from other friends I get the most important updates. As far as spo
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by dm8 14y ago
I personally think API design should be done by someone who has background in both UX and engineering. Even though you know your audience is going to technical, you'll eventually have people across the spectrum from noobs to pros using your
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by dm8 14y ago
Username charity sounds exciting to me. We are in early years of user driven web. Imagine what it would be 25 years down the line? I doubt people want to use their real names unless governments across the world regulate Internet and make it
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by dm8 14y ago
I bet there are number of startups already working on it. We have tons of startups (in last couple of years) that are 'airbnb" and 'uber' for some different problem.
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by dm8 14y ago
That is hindsight bias. Put yourself in Andrew's shoes in 2010. Daily deals space was exploding and it seemed he made wise decision. Nobody knows future. But I appreciate Andrew for sticking to his guns and declining the offer.
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by dm8 14y ago
Genuine question, how do you know when to continue/slog and when to stop?
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by dm8 14y ago
Thanks, that was really helpful. How different is it from a startup then? There are edge-cases like YouTubes and Instagrams of the world. But in general it is 3-5 years at minimum where you know whether your startup is going to be successfu
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by dm8 14y ago
My bad. Changed it.
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by dm8 14y ago
“I sent in script after script. Most were turned down. Then there would be interest, I’d rewrite, hurry up, turn it in and wait weeks and weeks, just waiting. That was the toughest time for Jane and me. She didn’t know what a film career wa
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by dm8 14y ago
HN is not reddit. So please no more 'twist' comments. :)
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by dm8 14y ago
Promising. Entering credit card information is pain, particularly on touch devices. Is Google Wallet their main competitor?
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by dm8 14y ago
Even I thought the same. I think failure of a startup is nothing short of grief.

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