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by far33d 15y ago
My wife printed half-size boarding passes to try and save some paper and we go SO much crap at every juncture.
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by far33d 15y ago
The one-liner blog post is much better than the alternative: dontjustcollectmyemail.com
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by far33d 16y ago
I'm sure there's someone who said that about newspaper classifieds once too.
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by far33d 16y ago
Engagement should be a relative metric: so in this case, maybe, the % of users who sign up that make a transaction in a time period. Otherwise it's not really meaningful without other data (ad spend, total users, etc). This is "total engage
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by far33d 16y ago
Can we please decide on what the definition of engagement is? For social apps on facebook it is daily users / monthly users. Here it means "more users using the service". Let's not confuse vanity metrics with relative metrics.
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by far33d 16y ago
I'm likely to be on the wrong side of this argument, but part of my gets upset every time I hear about a founder leaving their fast-growing company. Great companies are built by the kinds of founders who don't just want to start something,
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by far33d 16y ago
Steve worked on-site at Pixar one day a week (Friday) until the Disney acquisition. Day-to-day management went through the executive team, primarily Ed Catmull for technical and operations, and John Lasseter for creative direction.
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by far33d 16y ago
You mean the mob?
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by far33d 16y ago
Your responsibility to your shareholders is not to maintain the highest profits/employee - it's to deliver the highest total profit per share. If you need people, and can maintain the 3/2 ratio, you should add them.
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by far33d 16y ago
If you track traffic sources with high granularity and get lots of traffic from ads or viral channels, you can get actionable data from traffic metrics. Overall I agree - actionable metrics are the most important. I just take issue with the
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by far33d 16y ago
In most early web startups, the biggest challenge (and the most common reason for death) is acquiring and retaining customers. User metrics are completely valid as your primary metrics early on.
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by far33d 16y ago
I'm going to ignore all the "social" aspects of the supposed pay difference in my analysis. I think they are valid and accurate, but don't paint the full picture. This is coming from the perspective of a programmer turned PM. Note, however,
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by far33d 16y ago
>I see a trendy gadget that early adopters and trend followers have purchased. 7.3m iPads sold so far hardly seems like just early adopters.
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by far33d 16y ago
When you put it that way, a $20k couch costs you the same amount of equity as you would give a senior engineer in a post-series-A company.
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by far33d 16y ago
CEO's should all have 2 hour holds on their email that leaves the office. Whe actively fighting fires, it's easy to say something stupid.
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by far33d 16y ago
What is the story behind the 90/10 split between Clark and Andreesen at Netscape?
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by far33d 16y ago
I wonder if this kind of "extra fund" will become commonplace for successful micro-vc / super-angels. If you put out 100 $500k investments, and one turns out to be twitter, you are going to want the capital to keep a pro-rata share and foll
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by far33d 16y ago
Slightly disappointed - TripIt is one of the few web products released in the past five years that made me say "WOW. I need to tell everyone about this." My wife managed bookings and travel for public speakers - TripIt probably saved her an
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by far33d 16y ago
Actually, Pixar is probably one of the best places on the planet to work. The no-cold-call policy did not mean that employees were off limits completely. We hired lots of people from ILM, Lucasfilm, Dreamworks, etc, but they came to us. The
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by far33d 16y ago
Being lean is about getting maximum leverage, not keeping costs as low as possible. This kind of hire is a great example.
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by far33d 16y ago
Using the audio port is clearly a "wedge" into the market while smartphone technology catches up to support this kind of thing natively. Would you rather wait to build a market and startup or would you rather already be the market leader wh
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by far33d 16y ago
There is no reason, in a virtual goods model, that larger audience sizes require thinner margins. Players choose games based on how much fun they are having and what they can play socially with their friends - not the pricing on individual
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by far33d 16y ago
Reason #3 shows that the author does not understand even the basics of virtual goods and facebook platform monetization. The other points are nearly as non-sensical.
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by far33d 16y ago
My understanding is that all new hire grants @ facebook are given in restricted stock units (RSU) not options, in part to avoid the 500 shareholder rule.
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by far33d 16y ago
Ed Catmull always says that his approach to hiring was to find someone smarter than himself and that meant he was the dumbest person left @ Pixar.
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by far33d 16y ago
No business grows forever - mature businesses should always pay dividends back to their shareholders, public or private.
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by far33d 16y ago
I thought Facebook credits weren't even available as an option for Connect apps? If you really want to grow even faster: 1) scrap the standalone website and build it as an iframe app (should be very little work). This will simplify login si
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by far33d 16y ago
If they were to payout investors with their cash receipts, they would have LESS cash to actually reinvest and grow the business. For Groupon, given the amount of competition and the local focus of the business, this would hurt their competi
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by far33d 16y ago
If the "finder" is an investment banker, this seems very low.
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by far33d 16y ago
Followup - if your startup is successful, chances are you're going to end up working at a big company. Either you will be acquired, or you will grow. Experience with this can help you be a better entrepreneur.

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