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by drusenko 14y ago
You are absolutely correct, but the one thing you've failed to mention is that Steven Levy is one of the best technology writers of all time. I got to see this process first-hand when he covered Weebly for Newsweek. ( http://www.thedailybea
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by drusenko 14y ago
From my understanding, FundersClub actually solves this crowdfunding problem by acting as the sole investor on the cap table. As far as you are concerned as a startup, there is only 1 investor, and if there are any shareholder approvals, yo
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by drusenko 14y ago
This is awesome . We (Weebly) give out a $50 Exec credit every month to all of our employees to help with random life tasks. It's widely used and appreciated. Some of our employees, though, are further out from SF, and it can be harder to
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by drusenko 14y ago
If you want to see a truly excellently designed car display & navigation system, check out the new BMW 3-series (F30). They sprung for a non-standard display size that is super-wide, which means you can show two things at once. I have i
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by drusenko 14y ago
Congrats Michael and team! This is awesome.
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by drusenko 14y ago
A startup is not building a bridge. You don't meticulously plan your every move for 3 years before you start. A startup is jumping off a cliff and figuring out how to build a plane on your way down.
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by drusenko 14y ago
It's negativity through and through here, and it's impossible to get away from it. Consider the following: - You have a team that has been working incredibly hard pursuing a dream: that they can build a product, from scratch, that is truly
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by drusenko 14y ago
This article seems to be written from a completely different perspective than my own life experiences. Perhaps it is introvert vs. extrovert, or perhaps it is something else entirely. I was called an introvert all throughout high school bec
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by drusenko 14y ago
It seems like their launch happened 48 hours earlier than expected due to one of the reporters breaking the embargo. I think they are currently scrambling to get everything fully functional, but it may be a bit slow for the time being.
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by drusenko 14y ago
Search is still there and still a huge part of the product. I think they've come to the realization that the future of personal search is in making it so you don't have to use search in the first place -- 9 times out of ten the information
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by drusenko 14y ago
I definitely get where you're coming from. I don't know the full story, but it seems they had an embargo snafu (code for: one of the reporters that was under embargo conveniently forgot they weren't supposed to post until 2 days from now).
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by drusenko 14y ago
Greplin is by no means scrapped. All of that search functionality still exists and is an integral part of the app and website. Think of it as adding a new feature ("What's next") and that being the default screen, with search only one tap a
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by drusenko 14y ago
Public companies seem to be coming back to earth, but I'm not sure that's the case for private companies. The valuations there seem to be just getting more and more outlandish. On the other hand, if it's all VCs and funds of funds losing si
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by drusenko 14y ago
> - How is GitHub worth less than Pinterest? The fact that the top two comments are saying this is a sure sign we are progressing into a full-fledged bubble. See George Zachary's interview: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/17/in-the-studi
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by drusenko 14y ago
That comment is inaccurate. A billboard on 101 costs something like $10k-20k/month. If it was remnant inventory, it could be even less than $10k for that month.
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Weebly is hiring talented hackers and ping-pong masters(weebly.com)
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Weebly Adds Slick iOS App To Its Quietly Huge Web Site Creation Business(techcrunch.com)
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by drusenko 14y ago
@ktizo: I'm not name dropping, I'm presenting evidence that they were not "built to flip". What evidence do you have to the contrary?
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by drusenko 14y ago
@zmanji: Absolutely. What evidence do you have to the contrary? Here's evidence I have: Steve Anderson, one of Instagram's earliest investors and a board member, is also on our board. Just because they're not trying to make money on year 1
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by drusenko 14y ago
None of these companies are "trying to be sneaky with an exit strategy". They are trying to grow very large, independent businesses. If you build to flip, you are most likely going to fail -- it's just not a winning strategy. But putting of
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by drusenko 14y ago
Here's another way to put it: Your hardest problem is to build something that a lot of people want. It's really hard to do that. It's worth focusing all of your efforts on that than trying to be profitable on day 1. It is very unlikely th
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Weebly is hiring Android engineers (and other smart hackers)(weebly.com)
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by drusenko 14y ago
Interesting. After a bit of searching, found this: http://www.journalism.co.uk/news-features/titanic-disaster-a...
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by drusenko 14y ago
I don't think that's true. See this article ( http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html?page... ): ---------- During a half-hour drive beginning on Google’s campus 35 miles south of San Francisco last Wednesday, a Prius equipp
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by drusenko 15y ago
Excuse me: "As soon as the event was published the Heroku team immediately took action with Apigee quick to follow." What would you expect Heroku have done differently? HN has seen a sharp increase in negativity lately. What gives?
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by drusenko 15y ago
The exact same thing happened to Arrington in the UK with regards to a frivolous libel suit he chose not to defend. He couldn't visit the UK or risk being arrested. National laws differ. We each make our own. If you are found guilty of a US
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by drusenko 15y ago
No. com/net/info have always been US domain names from the beginning. It's a big reason why others were created. When you run a .com, you are running a US domain name. There are no international domains -- can you imagine how disastrously m
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by drusenko 15y ago
No, it's exactly like if I registered a .fr domain name. France has jurisdiction over that domain name, and can shut it down if they'd like. The US has jurisdiction over the .com domain. If you have no US customers, no servers in the US and
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by drusenko 15y ago
There are 2 issues here: (1) The US gov't is getting more active in shutting down US-based domain names, sometimes legitimately and sometimes mistakenly. This is obviously very bad when it's not legitimate. (2) Don't use GoDaddy. A Secret S
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by drusenko 15y ago
The concept of jurisdiction is complicated, but often comes down to "do you have the authority to make me care". Any country in the world can make laws about whatever they'd like with regards to things they have control over. In fact, they

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