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by fredsters_s 14y ago
Fascinating stuff. I guess the grey ecosystem is evolving on Twitter. A look at his followers - https://twitter.com/#!/Swagstro/followers - implies nearly all are fake just from their descriptions... not the '18 luv sex lol' fake but some
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by fredsters_s 14y ago
Why? Because Moskovitz's aims would have been better served if they had gone to work for Facebook instead? Seems like a pretty shaky argument to me.
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by fredsters_s 14y ago
Props for shipping. But how are you adding functionality? It's really not that hard to click links. Tangent: all this 'redesign HN' stuff is misguided. HN is brilliantly designed. It's sparse, it's not pretty, but it would be hard to improv
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by fredsters_s 15y ago
"the product is valued enough to not be summarily taken out back and shot"
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by fredsters_s 15y ago
wait - you think this is actually true?
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by fredsters_s 15y ago
Awesome job guys!
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by fredsters_s 15y ago
Definitely fits the 90:9:1 theory of consumption : curation : creation. I wonder to what extent the startup community or entrepreneurs in general represent an abnormal distribution of that ratio...
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by fredsters_s 15y ago
Interesting, but I'm not sure I agree. In my experience education - especially post-grad - tends to push people further and further down the funnel of specificity. By that logic, you're much more likely to have a macro startup idea - like
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by fredsters_s 15y ago
Down-vote opinions you disagree with? Don't misrepresent my statements in an attempt to exaggerate their absurdity. Obviously , Wall Street !== Angels, ergo IPO !== seed stage. There's no doubt there are edge cases. But the point I was try
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by fredsters_s 15y ago
To see some good examples where this model has been truly successful , see every successful VC fund and accelerator ( especially YC), ever. Also, I totally agree re prospective employers, from an employee's POV. But don't make the mistake
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by fredsters_s 15y ago
I think it's interesting that many believe the next wave of innovation and value creation will come from BioTech, and the potential implications that will have for hackers like us. I don't know about anyone else, but frankly it worries me.
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by fredsters_s 15y ago
Are you equating a cold-calling investment prospect with Mark Zuckerberg? I don't believe Twitter qualifies as a valuable form of due diligence for an investor No disrespect, but you're belief is incorrect. Anything and everything about y
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by fredsters_s 15y ago
I find it depressing when people hate and demonize a whole democracy with very heterogeneous political life ... these people of the Arab world's wait - wut?
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by fredsters_s 15y ago
> I think the best thing that I can say is that this experiment flies in the face of everything that pg, Steve Blank and the other leaders of Lean Startup methodology are teaching The OP is advocating the installation of a terminal to
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by fredsters_s 15y ago
I agree with your sentiments, but here's the difference: you could write anything in a bio. And in a CV. That's why socially verifiable information is always preferred. When trying to get an idea of what someone is like, flicking through
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by fredsters_s 15y ago
As the OP has indicated in the title, DidThis took part in an individual (mini) Seedcamp event, but wasn't selected for investment by Seedcamp.