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by evanjacobs 14y ago
A bit OT, but I thought this might be a good opportunity to mention the upcoming SportsHackDay in Seattle from Feb 1-3 which culminates in a group viewing of the SuperBowl. http://sportshackday.com/
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by evanjacobs 14y ago
For me, this is the most important takeaway: "But how do you let over 24,000+ readers know there is an update available? Amazon does not give publishers access to the customers’ email addresses so you cannot get in touch with them directly.
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by evanjacobs 14y ago
I wonder if this is a cultural issue. People have become used to the idea that taking one (usually small) action will have an outsized impact. Don't like the political environment? Voting for the right presidential candidate will fix it. Ov
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Ask HN: Which do you read on HN first (article or comments)?
4 points by evanjacobs 14y ago|5 comments
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by evanjacobs 14y ago
Something something "ideas are cheap" something something "all that matters is execution"
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by evanjacobs 14y ago
The expectation for entrepreneurs is that they always have this very clear vision of how they are going to change the world when in fact many of them simply get hooked on an idea that then goes on to change the world. Uncertainty is viewed
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by evanjacobs 15y ago
I've also looked into licensing live sports data from Stats, Inc. and it is prohibitively expensive (i.e. tens of thousands of dollars to get started). It seems like the timing is right for a crowdsourced solution for live sports data that
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The Lazy Startup(readwritehack.com)
1 points by evanjacobs 15y ago|0 comments
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Calculating Pi to 10 Trillion Digits; the last number is 5(hackaday.com)
1 points by evanjacobs 15y ago|0 comments
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by evanjacobs 15y ago
This is a surprising decision. I think most people were expecting Amazon to move away from Mobi but they probably expected Amazon to adopt EPUB especially as EPUB 3.0 is near release.
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by evanjacobs 15y ago
I'm really surprised that there was almost no mention about the competition between these companies for hiring engineers. If there is indeed a "tech war" coming (and I believe there is) then the company with the biggest and best army of eng
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by evanjacobs 15y ago
Lots of sloppy inaccuracies in the story. My favorite: "The best of them [customer service reps] could answer a dozen emails a minute". Ummm...that should be "hour".
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by evanjacobs 15y ago
Yes, it appears that Amazon is bootstrapping this by using UPS to deliver packages to the store but there's a bigger vision at work here. This is another attempt by Amazon to solve the "last mile" problem. Amazon already saves a ton of mone
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Kindlegraph My Books(feld.com)
3 points by evanjacobs 15y ago|0 comments
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Do Authors Dream of Electric Book Signings?(techcrunch.com)
4 points by evanjacobs 15y ago|2 comments
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by evanjacobs 15y ago
Offering spammers a regulated way of reaching a mass audience also gives Twitter the ability to be much more aggressive in shutting down accounts who pose as real users.
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by evanjacobs 15y ago
I think there may be a different approach: let spammers (aka bots) flourish and let users upvote the most helpful ones. In short: 1. Create a second type of Twitter account for bots. 2. Give users the ability to opt out entirely of seeing b
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by evanjacobs 15y ago
I wrote up some other tips based on my experience at Madrona Startup Weekend in Seattle at http://www.readwritehack.com/how-to-succeed-at-startup-weeke...
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by evanjacobs 15y ago
Would love to see some data from a popular site about how often the "forgot my password" link is used and whether it is evenly distributed or only used repeatedly by a subset of the user base. Another attribute that I would assume of "less
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10 years at software(blog.sentientmonkey.com)
3 points by evanjacobs 15y ago|0 comments
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Kindlegraph: Personal inscriptions from authors on your Kindle(kindlegraph.com)
3 points by evanjacobs 15y ago|1 comments
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by evanjacobs 15y ago
Doh! Thanks, fixed.
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Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur(readwritehack.com)
11 points by evanjacobs 15y ago|2 comments
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by evanjacobs 15y ago
I really like the idea and I think there is a great need from both developers and customers for this service. Have you thought at all about how to drive the demand side of this marketplace?
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by evanjacobs 16y ago
It appears that the strong bias against single founders (at least from the investment community) may be softening a bit. In a recent talk at DogPatch Labs, Mark Suster advised starting a company on your own and then hiring a cofounder: htt
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by evanjacobs 16y ago
One other data point for you. Groupon.com was purchased in May 2009 for $250,000. Source: http://mixergy.com/domain-business-tip/
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by evanjacobs 16y ago
VCs often say they invest in team first and idea second but USV decided not to invest in AirBnb despite having no (obvious) reservations about the team or their ability to execute. Does this mean that ideas are more important than investors
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by evanjacobs 16y ago
As a tweethook customer, I'm sad to hear it.
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by evanjacobs 16y ago
"it's really easy to underestimate impact" And I bet the guy who made the video which inadvertently spawned this idea probably didn't imagine the impact it would have on another man's life.
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by evanjacobs 16y ago
How far back does your data go? Twitter's API doesn't really allow for historical searching so there may be value to someone who wants to, for example, compare trends over time.

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