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by drb311 11y ago
The insight applies to any business: you either help the customer save time or help them kill time.
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It was an original, exciting, and ground breaking product in a market that had plenty of unoriginal, boring players. See also MP3 Players and smartphones. Both markets looked boring and well-trodden until Apple blew fresh air into them. The
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by drb311 11y ago
There are much better books that do a similar job. Try out Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark and A Sense of Style by Steven Pinker.
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Well, Calacanis is much more successful than me so I'm inclinded to think that: 1. Yes, he made the wrong call on Youtube. 2. The habit of making wrong (but still reasonable) calls might be a good one. My learning from this: 1. Form a
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by drb311 11y ago
I'm foxed too. Due diligence is about assessing risk. The lower the valuation the less you're risking. Hence I'd expect early acquires to require far less due diligence. What am I missing?
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I googled the question. Weirdly, the answer uses Lincoln's assassination as an example. It was the fulcrum event between new and old. Here's how the inverted pyramid report of his death began: "This evening at about 9:30 p.m.
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Contrast the vivid storytelling here with the modern approach taken to JFK's assassination, which begins: "President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed by an assassin today. "He died of a wound in the brain caused by
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by drb311 12y ago
I'm a Packtian. We're having fun with the title, and we hope the book will help people have fun with OpenCV and learn some useful CV techniques along the way.
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Unknown command, Line 1.
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The most interesting thing is that even though people complain about the high price, the wallet test shows that real customers recognize the value and are content to pay $99. The App Store has conditioned people to ASK for a low price, but
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Software can now provide just about any user experience quite easily, so the software industry is now all about figuring out what experiences people want. Is that all he's saying?
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It'll still want me to sit at home looking at ads. If it wants to do everything else for me I'm OK with that.
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Who cares what it looks like on a big conference-room screen? 99% of viewers are looking at it on a desktop or laptop. I've always wondered how you can apply the banal "story-telling" presentation advice to slide decks that s
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Book a car in advance? Stone age! Google Now will figure out where you need to be, and have a car waiting for you when you open the door.
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This line stood out for me: "They use an Apple because they don't want to use different hardware for work and pleasure." I'm not a coder, and I don't find the idea of a single machine for work and pleasure particula
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From your answer then we could already improve the author's introduction... "Go is an open source programming language designed for building simple, fast, and reliable software. It's a good choice where squeezing maximum perf
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I wish all these books did a much better job of positioning the language and explaining when you should choose to use it. That seems crucial information, and hard to find out online. The introduction in Go by Example isn't much use: &q
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What you have in common with the Wright brothers(pythonforbiologists.com)
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The style works because she's going on an adventure of discovery and taking us along for the ride. Loose guesses that you hope are good enough are more fun than exact calculations. It's fun watching Indiana Jones guessing how much
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by drb311 12y ago
Yes, that does make it harder. But a few things make it easier too: 1. Twitter can see all messages from the sender -- if the stream contains a lot of suspect material and was created recently (for example), that makes any individual Tweet
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Is identifying a threatening or abusive tweet any harder than identifying a spam email? Modern filters can get rid of most spam mails pretty well, and don't delete much that the receiver will miss.
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Seconded. (And Patio11, I've been stalking you...) Another highlight, showing how POF early on was all about surprising and obvious innovations (presumably at the expense of polish, as noted elsewhere in the thread). If you're boo
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The way I see it, Snapchat as a unique fun little app that had a very specific use case. That's what users loved about it. But VCs aren't so keen on quirky little apps... they want an app that everybody uses all the time. This rel
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Felix Salmon's review and analysis based on the book is more informative than the book itself, read it: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2014/04/21/the-most-ex...
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The perfect wearables strategy.
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It's amazing how addictive a nonsensical navigation system can be. Also: has he been working out? His chin seems to shrink a bit with every new video.
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Yes! My first thought was that if abolishing net neutrality forces entrepreneurs to develop less trivial ideas then it might not be such a bad thing. Thanks Fred for explaining why the examples are so bad! And it's reassuring that even
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The digital native myth AND the myth that people only click ads by mistake both need to end. Sometimes people use Google with buying intent, and the ads are the best and most appropriate result returned. If anything younger users are likely