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Codecademy’s CodeYear Attracts 100,000 Aspiring Programmers In 48 Hours(techcrunch.com)
71 points by fvryan 15y ago|14 comments
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India’s Low-Cost Aakash Tablet Pre-Orders Hit 1.4 Million(techcrunch.com)
13 points by fvryan 15y ago|1 comments
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by fvryan 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale
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Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies(avc.com)
5 points by fvryan 15y ago|0 comments
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by fvryan 15y ago
- Why not sell your house? -- "We're really focused on the business and are trying to limit outside distractions, like where is my family going to live, or how am I going to drive to meetings. But liquidating some assets is always an option
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Prof Promises Supercomputer on Every Desktop(wired.com)
1 points by fvryan 15y ago|0 comments
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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why(bothsidesofthetable.com)
5 points by fvryan 15y ago|0 comments
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by fvryan 15y ago
MIT OpenCourseware is already amazing, can't wait to see how MITx turns out. One great teacher can dramatically change a students trajectory. Platforms like MITx can help those teachers reach huge numbers of students. Also interested to see
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Video: The Interactive Angry Birds Christmas Lights Display(techcrunch.com)
1 points by fvryan 15y ago|0 comments
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How Much To Burn While Building Product(avc.com)
4 points by fvryan 15y ago|0 comments
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Getting promoted too quickly(bijansabet.com)
2 points by fvryan 15y ago|0 comments
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Now Every Company Is A Software Company(forbes.com)
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by fvryan 15y ago
Absolutely. And it goes both ways. I would have never thought I needed an app like Path, but I gave it a try when they released Path 2.0 purely because I loved the design. Now it has become one of my most used apps, super easy to keep my GF
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by fvryan 15y ago
Another addition to the edu|tech disruption brewing. Will be exciting to see whether the disruption comes top-down from the institutions or bottom-up from startups like codecademy/khanacademy. I'm bullish on the startups at this point, but
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by fvryan 15y ago
"All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S." clever name.
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Why Sound Will Be Bigger Than Video(avc.com)
43 points by fvryan 15y ago|14 comments
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by fvryan 15y ago
Top Costumes feature is now done! :D http://costumedb.com/costumes.php?m=top_costume
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by fvryan 15y ago
so awesome
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by fvryan 15y ago
great suggestion, we are working on that now. This was a weekend project for fun so all the features aren't finished yet.
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Want To Show Off Your Halloween Costume? Upload it To Costume DB(tcrn.ch)
15 points by fvryan 15y ago|11 comments
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by fvryan 15y ago
thanks for the share!
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by fvryan 15y ago
We're not peddling a stock market predictor, it's an information tool to give you an idea of how companies you're interested in are performing in real-time to help you make long-term decisions. We're not doing high frequency algo trading.
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by fvryan 15y ago
i can promise you that it wouldn't be a profitable endeavor for you, but we welcome you to give it a try^^
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by fvryan 15y ago
that starts to get to the core of our technology, so we're not really comfortable discussing it. That being said, in your example there are ways to derive the associated brand based on information alongside or attached to the photo.
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by fvryan 15y ago
It's definitely a great question! The answer is simply that we didn't have enough investment capital for it to be meaningful, though we do still trade on it to build our track record to show investors. All of our angel investors came on bo
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by fvryan 15y ago
A quant will definitely be important, especially one with a background in finance. However, you said the data wasn't available publicly, this could be a huge problem if you are planning on selling to the financial sector.
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by fvryan 15y ago
definitely, a couple specific trades are mentioned in the article
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by fvryan 15y ago
It's an interesting question and we haven't had any problems so far. The good thing is that our data feeds are vast in terms of both size and reach across the social web, and we don't overly rely on any one feed.
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by fvryan 15y ago
haha we are definitely trading on it ourselves, but as entrepreneurs we don't have nearly enough capital to make the profits meaningful. Also we're really excited to be making affordable information tools for independent traders and have a
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by fvryan 15y ago
thanks for the support! :D

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