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Founder Arrogance(ezliu.com)
4 points by ezl 14y ago|2 comments
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by ezl 14y ago
This. Startups are an acute instance of "too much to do, too little time". Good task prioritization might be the SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT skill that a startup founder needs to develop. Not all failures are time wasters though -- some of the i
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by ezl 14y ago
Thanks for the comment, debacle. To be clear, I'm not trying to say this is a good way to run a startup or that anyone should do it. In particular, I am really bad at doing more than one thing. It is one of my personal weaknesses. Some peop
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by ezl 14y ago
I forgot that you can link images. Thanks for pointing that out... Just started blogging so I forget stuff like that. Fixed.
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by ezl 14y ago
Hi, that was definitely an SEO motivated decision. I'm not quite sure about white/grey/black hat, but I felt it would be acceptable to link to my own startup with a keyword of my choosing. It honestly never even crossed my mind that it migh
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by ezl 14y ago
This is true, Alex. there are in fact many, many more things Rocket Lease does not do that would be very valuable. These include, but are not limited to: - Curing cancer - Making solar power economically viable - Better public tran
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Focus. Focus. Focus.(ezliu.com)
72 points by ezl 14y ago|22 comments
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by ezl 15y ago
Super inspiring. Sounds like every startup founder needs to take a lesson out of the Code Academy founders' playbook. They hustled their butts off and made something great. Congrats. There are quite a few "learn to write rails" schools out
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by ezl 15y ago
great service, especially for a distributed team. helps everyone keep abreast of what everyone else is doing, and has helped me manage contractors. I cannot recommend this product more to founders with small teams. Easily the best money I
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by ezl 15y ago
It's definitely not black and white. I think of every opportunity as being a different dartboard with different values. These were just examples of _A_ small startup and _A_ big startup. It's our responsibility as an entrepreneurs to pick
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by ezl 15y ago
Hi there, thanks for the feedback. I don't claim I'm right, this is just how I view opportunities. i DO think of every opportunity as a distribution of payouts with varying probabilities. Before going into the venture (and even after it..
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by ezl 15y ago
Really, I guess this is my really old response to the "ambitious startups" threads from a while back...
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Big Startups vs Little Startups(ezliu.com)
90 points by ezl 15y ago|17 comments
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by ezl 15y ago
i remember doing this. i mostly did the puzzle because it was a fun distraction. another thing is that it self selects for people who consider problem solving fun. its not necessarily the most predictive of job performance, but it is bette
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by ezl 15y ago
also, people talk a really big talk about how its great to invest money and let it grow, but in my experience those people really don't 1. do that, 2. know how to do that well.
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by ezl 15y ago
you might say the same thing about college. the majority of the stuff is just being taught straight out of books in large lecture format and a lot of its available for free by universities and online resources. personal trainers at the gym
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by ezl 15y ago
adennis is an awesome startup guy. I couldn't be more proud to know him. To those who don't know him, you guys might remember him from: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2332349 That was him about a year ago, and a lot of people called
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Why Chicago Doesn't Produce Innovative Startups: Midwest Mentality(pandodaily.com)
30 points by ezl 15y ago|57 comments
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by ezl 15y ago
What impact does this have on SEO? while I enjoy the use experience of fast loading single page apps, if it means it makes a large amount of your content uncrawlable, that seems like a worrisome business tradeoff.
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by ezl 15y ago
our partner in cx would stand behind us and hit us on top of the head every time we said "um" or "like"
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by ezl 15y ago
+1. More please.
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by ezl 15y ago
Does this exist? Seems like it should. Sort of like how you can use linked in to figure out who people have worked with. People with kids often have friends with kids and you can figure out all the babysitters that have one degree of separa
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by ezl 15y ago
Fascinating. I thought this was going to be a site about couples dating couples, like how Lily and Marshall in HIMYM were always trying to find married couples to hang out with. I suspect this is also an interesting idea to a lot of people
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by ezl 15y ago
I don't disagree. I've been waiting for Bitcasa, which I intend to use as my media drive, but its not competing for Dropbox dollars for me. I guess maybe i'm just saying "Distributed large data storage is not a dropbox competitor" (the ar
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by ezl 15y ago
There seem to be several companies in the "Dropbox competitor" space. A few have been funded by VC heavy hitters, so clearly there's something to this. But I don't really get it. Can someone help me understand this trend? What makes a compa
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by ezl 15y ago
1. Regarding looking like everyone's friend -- if you don't look like everybody's buddy, hire a spokeperson who is. George W Bush is said to have become president because he looked like someone everyone wanted to have a beer with. Not the
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by ezl 15y ago
Nice work. I like the logo and its a great idea. This space seems to be getting crowded, I feel like I've seen a few apps in this vein recently, most notably RentShare ( http://rentshare.com ), which a few of my friends in NYC use. My bigge
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by ezl 15y ago
It's true that celebrity entrepreneurs have a decided advantage in terms of [ease of getting press, money to hire people, making connections, etc]. However, I think most of those things can actually be replicated (though admittedly not as e
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by ezl 15y ago
I see the value of UX, and I haven't decided how important it is to me yet. I do feel like the conversations in tech circles seem to be overselling its benefits. I get skeptical when hearing bold, blanket assertions like "A UX person is
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by ezl 15y ago
While the market is currently very fragmented, Spa Booker has a fighting shot at being the real leader here. From what we've seen, they're doing it right. We'd be starting behind them (they still have VERY little market penetration). There

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