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Ask HN: The Road to Becoming an Angel or VC
12 points by gatsby 16y ago|5 comments
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Sign the National Entrepreneurs' Day Petition to Obama(entrepreneursday.org)
2 points by gatsby 16y ago|0 comments
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How HeyZap's Viral Strategy Led to 10 Million Monthly Users(mixergy.com)
6 points by gatsby 16y ago|0 comments
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Amazon's Kindle Offers Access to Banned Sites in China(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by gatsby 16y ago|0 comments
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Two-Mile-High Mountains Discovered in Saturn's Rings(io9.com)
3 points by gatsby 16y ago|0 comments
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How HN Helped Manpacks Take Off(mixergy.com)
34 points by gatsby 16y ago|27 comments
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by gatsby 16y ago
"Your Friends And Family Won't Understand What You Do." Very, very true. Unfortunately, as much as I enjoyed 'The Social Network,' it certainly didn't help our cause in this regard. Practically overnight many of my friends and extended fami
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by gatsby 16y ago
I have a negative experience with behavioral interview questions, both as an employer and employee. There's a lot of room for embellishment and most behavioral questions don't properly summarize the candidate's qualifications. They're a sna
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Risk Appetite Increasing: Investors Back in Stocks(cnbc.com)
1 points by gatsby 16y ago|0 comments
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by gatsby 16y ago
It's funnier when you read this first: http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/26/13-inch-macbook-air-review/
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The Joys of the Edge and Dangers of Ignoring the FAT Middle(howardlindzon.com)
2 points by gatsby 16y ago|0 comments
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by gatsby 16y ago
I like that Brad touches on the time-factor of 20+ years. I think it's easy to forget that it takes a long, long time to create a sustainable business environment, and it also takes years of success stories and phenomenal leadership to put
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by gatsby 16y ago
Loved this message. Some of the most successful people I know fucking figured it out and just got shit done. Here on HN, we're exposed to countless stories of people with five kids getting shit done, and introverts making sales and getting
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by gatsby 16y ago
Jazz.
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by gatsby 16y ago
I was in a very similar situation about a year ago. I ended up choosing "Company #2" - the larger company with strong benefits and big-name clients. I primarily chose that option because I actually love the idea of developing ten or twelve
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The Story of the Biggest Computer Game of All Time(kotaku.com)
3 points by gatsby 16y ago|0 comments
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U.S. Companies Hoarding Almost $1 Trillion in Cash(portfolio.com)
3 points by gatsby 16y ago|0 comments
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by gatsby 16y ago
"I wish all investors had a list like this posted somewhere in their linkedin/blog." Agreed. I think it could also be interesting to have a platform where the founders rate each angel/VC on a 1-5 scale on 20 or so categories: technical know
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Fighting China's Software Pirates(online.wsj.com)
3 points by gatsby 16y ago|1 comments
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Beware the Protectionist Temptation(theatlantic.com)
4 points by gatsby 16y ago|0 comments
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Two Problems With Whining(sethgodin.typepad.com)
2 points by gatsby 16y ago|0 comments
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by gatsby 16y ago
Here are a few articles I've read that you might find interesting. The first is NPR's brief look into the payday loan business as a whole and the second demonstrates the wild rate at which these loans are being issued (£1.2 billion issued i
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Online Ad Rev At All-Time High, Video Growing At Record Pace(mediapost.com)
5 points by gatsby 16y ago|0 comments
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Do You Need A Permit?(sethgodin.typepad.com)
3 points by gatsby 16y ago|0 comments
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Q&A With Howard Lindzon(kirkreport.com)
2 points by gatsby 16y ago|0 comments
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by gatsby 16y ago
"The only accident, engineers said, was when one Google car was rear-ended while stopped at a traffic light." Google robot > Humans
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by gatsby 16y ago
Time Force has some browser and mobile-based time clocks available at the bottom of the page: http://www.mytimeforce.com/time-clocks/time-clocks-by-type.p...
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Hans Rosling: The Good News of the Decade?(ted.com)
6 points by gatsby 16y ago|1 comments
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by gatsby 16y ago
This provides a good intro to a historical variety of political theories and includes everything from the ancient Greek traditions to Marx and Heidegger. http://www.amazon.com/History-Political-Philosophy-Leo-Strau...
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by gatsby 16y ago
I recommend you read this post by Seth Godin if you haven't already: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/09/if-you-want-... I think he nails it. Want to start doing something? Do it. It won't be pretty at first but you'll learn f

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