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by edge17 16y ago
There are plenty of alternatives to YC, YC is just the posterchild for incubators rightnow. As far as archenemies are concerned, if by that you mean there needs to be several competitors in the market so that the customers (the entrepreneur
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by edge17 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Flat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nevada_Test_Site_craters.j... Yucca Flat has been called "the most irradiated, nuclear-blasted spot on the face of the earth".[2] In March 2009, TIME identified
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by edge17 16y ago
whether you agree with it or not, if you're marketing a business it's still important to know whats in the news cycle.
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by edge17 16y ago
yep, i saw it back in jan, burned from the reentry heat and all :)
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by edge17 16y ago
To your point, Steve Jobs made a similar comment at D8 - Jobs: “When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks, because that’s what you needed on the farm. But as vehicles started to be used in the urban centers, cars got more popul
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by edge17 16y ago
Only then did Amazon allegedly begin to address licensing issues before going ahead with the launches—licenses or not. "I've never seen a company of their size make an announcement, launch a service and simultaneously say they're trying to
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by edge17 16y ago
micro-finance. sure, lots of controversy in this space, but people are trying and investments are being made. there's a lot of systemic problems too like bureaucrats and lack of collaboration between universities and industry (when was the
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by edge17 16y ago
cheap labor is markets at work. you just sound pissed.
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by edge17 16y ago
best of luck, think this through carefully. I had some software that had some 3-4m downloads for free. We later put out a pay-for version, the conversion rate was quite low (as expected) but netted some okay money for starving kids just out
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by edge17 16y ago
that page needs to offer some clues to what it does.... 'above the fold' does also apply to websites
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by edge17 16y ago
twitter is internet plumbing. it doesn't matter if it makes money, it drives ridiculous amounts of ancillary commerce. There's plenty of people that are willing to pay money to keep it alive because it serves their business. Infrastructure
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by edge17 16y ago
if that $3.5b saved them, I wonder what this other $9b was for http://www.businessinsider.com/the-9-billion-check-to-rescue...
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by edge17 16y ago
"may indicate" usually means "lets wildly speculate without evidence"
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by edge17 16y ago
ironically, the market does.... it's important to remember though that when one analyst cries wolf, the headline is roughly '[All] analysts cry wolf'... the same way when you hear something like 'Scientists say global warming likely to be c
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by edge17 16y ago
To add to bonzoesc, who likes their product getting hacked? It's a business and they're trying to make money. The business plans on these high profile products with years of dev time are made years in advance. In technology, that's a li
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by edge17 16y ago
The market will decide. The market is the final judge on all decisions. Sometimes it takes a little longer for the dust to settle, but if a decision ended up being a bad decision then either change or get owned for it.
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by edge17 16y ago
businesses aren't democratic, plain and simple. If that had been the government saying you couldn't publish your book about Islam or Judaism or something, then that's something to get up in arms about.
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by edge17 16y ago
As someone that has been involved it in hacking apple products and making some pocket change from it in a past life, I hardly think apple has a reputation for disliking these people. If anything, apple looks at what people come up with 'of
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by edge17 16y ago
this is a great story. whether it's fact or fiction, it's riveting
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by edge17 16y ago
i was done with cnn when I saw a segment titled 'who would jesus vote for?' during the last primary, and their anchors were sitting around a table having a debate.
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by edge17 16y ago
cnn is in the business of viewership, not news... you know, kinda like mtv
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MOST model animations of Tsunami Event in Japan(youtube.com)
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by edge17 16y ago
One semester I was TA'ing a certain course all electrical and computer engineering students are required to take. One student named all his variables in phonetic chinese (using the utf8 character set of course). Another student named all hi
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by edge17 16y ago
Is there a good way to authenticate youtube? The GData stuff I've found was janky at best. It worked on a newly created account, but didn't work on my age old pre-acquisition account
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by edge17 16y ago
measuring the quality of a parking spot based on walking time rather than proximity. people spend so long circling for parking, if you just part 3x as far, you'll save way more time and won't burn fuel needlessly while circling.
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by edge17 16y ago
bill and melinda aren't asking me for money though
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by edge17 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule "The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time."[
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by edge17 16y ago
I dunno, i've always found in any launch i've participated in, crunch time is crunch time. There's also something to be said about working on awesome teams. If you've ever been fortunate enough to experience it, awesome teams make you want
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by edge17 16y ago
I'm excited to see what happens when the RIAA sends their goons to the front lines in China. If Walmart and other american retail brands that work hard to mold their business for the sensibilities of other cultures and still manage to have
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by edge17 16y ago
"The huge growth that Google's Android platform has experienced during the past year creates a big opportunity for developers," wrote PayPal developer Naveed Anwar in a company blog. "We see it every day with the submissions using our plat

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