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by far33d 14y ago
As I remember it, the love lounge and the lucky 7 are different rooms. When Animation moved to another part of the building and Andrew got a new office, he built lucky 7 and the love lounge stayed intact. I sat in the office next to the lov
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by far33d 15y ago
Full disclosure. I'm a Zynga employee. I run the Boston studio, which was built out of a startup acquisition and is responsible for Adventure World. This comment is 100% my own opinion, not that of my employer. I'm an engineer and entrepren
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by far33d 15y ago
Because doing real data analysis is hard and time consuming. If you are a very data-driven company, you need someone focused on it.
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by far33d 15y ago
a16z is taking an incredibly well-structured approach to value-added investing. It's nice to see a strategy and mission that actually explains how they are different and goes beyond generic platitudes like "enable innovation".
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by far33d 15y ago
This is a more thorough version of what a popular bike blog "bikesnobnyc" used to call the "pistadex", where he used the average price of a bianchi pista to determine the popularity of the fixie trend.
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by far33d 15y ago
Jobs without Woz would have found another company to run and another great idea to build. Woz without Jobs would just be some really good engineer inside some gigantic company no one has ever heard of. He even is quoted in the book as havin
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by far33d 15y ago
It works too. The atrium is a very common chance meeting place, and that's nearly 100% due to the coffee, conf. rooms, and bathrooms being centrally situated.
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by far33d 15y ago
Which apps? Would like to teach some basic math to my 4 yr old.
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by far33d 15y ago
does anyone else find the URL for this article strange?
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by far33d 15y ago
"Here’s how Apple products are created: a team of designers decide exactly what a product should do and how it should look and feel, their work is ruthlessly edited by Steve until he approves, and then the entire rest of the company is give
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by far33d 15y ago
I'm sure hundreds of second and third tier VCs piled on with ridiculous valuations in the hopes that they could add a "hot" company to their website. If this article is correct, Dropbox did the right thing and decided to go with smarter mon
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by far33d 15y ago
Another possible scenario is that their new customers account for a significant portion of revenue. Once they hit the edge of the addressable market, their CPA rises significantly and their revenue goes off a cliff as it becomes harder to a
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by far33d 15y ago
Ed Catmull is the only plausible external possibility. He would be excellent at making sure what works at Apple stays that way.
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by far33d 15y ago
Add Zynga to the list as well. We're building the next generation of social games from Central Square in Cambridge. If you are into games, this is the best place in Boston to work right now. Great team, great opportunity. My email is in my
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by far33d 15y ago
The explosion in angels has not skipped Boston. A few recent acquisitions will certainly increase activity as well.
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by far33d 15y ago
Boston, MA Zynga Boston has a small team working on the next big social game. We're looking for a number of positions in engineering, art, product management, and data analysis. My email is in my profile.
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by far33d 15y ago
Facebook already has circles. They're called friend lists. Adding UI sugar to make circles (if people actually wanted them) would be nearly trivial. For instance: http://www.circlehack.com/
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by far33d 15y ago
If they don't have a button that says "share" that you click before it posts that's a TOS violation and will likely be changed quickly if the FB compliance team is paying attention. Fact of the matter is that install rates often don't chang
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by far33d 15y ago
Mostly, turntable is growing because they are subsidizing free music. The social is gravy, but people love free stuff. At some point they will need to actually cover their costs (note the shutdown of non-us traffic) and it's going to be a l
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by far33d 15y ago
This is an incredible amount of leverage for the non-founder employees of YC-backed startups.
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by far33d 15y ago
With some quick analysis on some aggregate of 4sq feeds, you could determine the average # of checkins per user per day, which would let you estimate daily actives reasonably well (3m checkins / day)
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by far33d 15y ago
Facebook should be heralded for using a real user engagement metric in the advertising reach numbers. They could claim every registered user as a "user" but then they'd be lying (like most other services do). Given the near total saturation
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by far33d 15y ago
At first glance, this looks about 100x better than jobvite.
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by far33d 15y ago
Wow. Eric and Elizabeth Lefkosky turned a $1m angel investment (according to crunchbase) into $380m cash in 4 years.
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by far33d 15y ago
If your company is ever used as the subject of the "X for Y" analogy, that's success. AirBnB used to be the eBay for vacation rental.. Now other companies are the airbnb of things.
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by far33d 15y ago
It's unfortunate that "local" has come to mean "groupon clone". There's so much more to local commerce.
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by far33d 15y ago
I would normally chime in but this thread feels like a witch hunt with a lot of people who don't know what they are talking about pretending to be experts.
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by far33d 15y ago
This is hilarious. They can't say they're safe anymore, they can't say they aren't addictive, so now they are "harmful and addictive" but easy to quit?
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by far33d 15y ago
I too thought this would be a kindle or ipad-like device that browsed the web for cheap. I was excited. Then I saw it was a crappy netbook and was disappointed. The form-factor makes a big difference for me, since I already need a full-feat
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by far33d 15y ago
You should have gone to Brown :)

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