flipbrad

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by flipbrad 18y ago
i think it's actually quite a sensible policy, to reduce echo.
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by flipbrad 18y ago
if I'm being honest, I think I prefer Vista to all of those, excepting perhaps the mockup, #1.
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by flipbrad 18y ago
I spose there are differences between 'pure' bootstrapping and raising 17m but saying you're still bootstrapping. Firstly,this guy has experience 'truly' bootstrapping, so I see no reason do doubt his word, but if this is your first try and
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by flipbrad 18y ago
you're absolutely right, I apologise. Point remains that asking for equity does not fit with expectation of failure.
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by flipbrad 18y ago
note that she took a pay cut because she wanted a greater stake in the company. does that fit with her not believing in it? it does sound like she didn't have the experience or the maturity to whittle down to an achievable project, however.
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by flipbrad 18y ago
lotta speculation, very little fact in that post. what if amazon is running at minimal margins or even using this as a loss leader to crush iTMS before it dominates all digital media? Occam's Razor. Remember they need Amzn Unbox to succeed
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Fred Wilson Effect: inadvertent social dividend of an open conversation(overthecounterculture.com)
1 points by flipbrad 19y ago|0 comments
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by flipbrad 19y ago
That's really something I hope they can improve on for the rest of the trilogy; the repetitiveness of the challenges faced was galling, despite this being a super cool game to play for the first and last 45 minutes
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by flipbrad 19y ago
have i not fucked up that comment - mistaking earnings and profits as two separate things?
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by flipbrad 19y ago
"Fifty years ago it would have seemed shocking for a public company not to pay dividends. Now many tech companies don't. The markets seem to have figured out how to value potential dividends. Maybe that isn't the last step in this evolution
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by flipbrad 19y ago
midgets standing on the shoulders of giants, as even the mighty will admit. what matters is the evolution with each new generation. get the right mix of memes and you end up with something very powerful, which YC arguably is
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by flipbrad 19y ago
careful with 'do anything' - in certain cases if found out it will badly burn you and your organisation - e.g. Holden Karnofsky getting badly burnt after astroturfing MetaFilter over Xmas and the fallout that GiveWell then had to deal with.
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by flipbrad 19y ago
that you might be becoming a good product manager and developed, but not a good businessman. likewise, that the product is great but totally unsustainable without an artificial support machine. Too many of those around, and the web sphere r
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by flipbrad 19y ago
I think if more people shared exactly these opinions, the Valley would be a much safer place for entrepreneurs and investors than it currently is, and would have been back in the 90's (culminating in the crash). Why the last bubble didn't c
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by flipbrad 19y ago
that's an easy comment to make that very much fits the zeitgeist, but some sort of cynicism is required. If we're wrong on this, and 'build it and the money will come' strategies fail, then we're definitely setting ourselves up for a boom+b