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by electric 19y ago
This is the power of PR.
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by electric 19y ago
"Where is it, then?" I don't think a comma is required after 'it'.
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by electric 19y ago
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” -- Henry Ford.
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Ben looks unhappy(news.yahoo.com)
1 points by electric 19y ago|0 comments
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by electric 19y ago
If it is a compelling business/startup based on a great product then you should start it. Nevermind the recession. HP was founded during the great depression. Sun and Adobe were started during recessions.
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by electric 19y ago
None of the above -- get yourself an asus eeepc instead.
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by electric 19y ago
"The reason I so deeply disrespect the man, though, is because with that 10 million dollars he has done absolutely nothing to advance the experience of people on his site." So why don't you do something about it? Start a company to right h
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by electric 19y ago
Self-financed. Bootstrapped with savings.
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by electric 19y ago
Interesting. I had brought up the issue of student debt as being one significant impediment to startups happening at the pace that pg had predicted they would.
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by electric 19y ago
" 20 years or so screwing around with technology and business, in complete obscurity until fall 2004, when I became the "I built digg.com for $10/hour" guy." Awesome. :) cheers!
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by electric 19y ago
I'm 85 years old. Rocking out. Starting new companies. Life is good.
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by electric 19y ago
" If you're serious about learning advanced business principles, " don't read, start a business yourself.
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by electric 19y ago
Interesting -- i'm reading this on my eee pc. I love it!
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by electric 19y ago
Obama is a 1337 h4x0r.
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by electric 19y ago
Agreed. The term sweat equity is a negative one, but if you are joining a company at the stage Cuban is referring to (i.e. when it has little to no cash) you should be getting a reasonable amount of equity -- at least enough to make your ha
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by electric 19y ago
Tip 2: Hire A+ engineers who love coding is Wrong! You're better off hiring a team of engineers who work well with each other to get things done. All of them do not have to individually be A+. In fact a team of A+ rockstar engineers
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by electric 19y ago
Since you're in CS and EE I would recommend gnu radio http://gnuradio.org/trac which includes both.
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by electric 19y ago
LOL .. Jakob's been around for a while. He actually was a consultant for Google in the early days.
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by electric 19y ago
Re: generous.... It depends on what the options are priced at and what the vesting period is.
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by electric 19y ago
"You should mostly ignore your competitors" Bad advice.
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by electric 19y ago
The "Captain Underpants" series.
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by electric 19y ago
If I understand his last statement correctly, he says don't look for anything in particular, just keep searching.
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by electric 19y ago
It doesn't matter whether they do or don't. The problem with GPS receivers is that they do not work reliably indoors. If Loopt relies entirely on GPS to locate users then this offering from Google is superior.
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by electric 19y ago
"For most of my lifetime, it's been a given that the top Canadian talent in any field would eventually move to the States, or spend significant time there." I think that is true in some fields, like the performing arts and untrue in others
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by electric 19y ago
Or that an employee has "stuck" around for long enough to be unemployable elsewhere.
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by electric 19y ago
"Maybe Canadians are more reluctant to move cities for a different job than Americans are" Canadians love living in Canada and in general move to the US very reluctantly. As a result Canadians have fewer career options relative to their US
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Until Death, or Some Other Sticky Problem, Do Us Part (a co-founder story)(inc.com)
4 points by electric 19y ago|0 comments
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by electric 19y ago
Amazing.. there are so many paths to realizing a startup. These people bootstrapped, consulted, etc. and finally found their startup path, not unlike Cognos which was recently acquired by IBM for $5B.
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by electric 19y ago
>Can we stop up-voting every story that even mentions the guy now? Like this one?
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by electric 19y ago
What makes software companies so different from the technology companies on the list that were once startups (i.e. products not services)?

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