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by glen 16y ago
This can be a beast, but Porter's work on 5 forces is really illuminating. If you do the hard work, you'll have a really good understanding of where your business fits in the larger context.
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by glen 16y ago
We are in the form of eportfolios.
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by glen 16y ago
Awesome! Great work. I'll read it daily and link to it on our blog! Thank you!
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by glen 16y ago
How long will it be until recommendations from trusted others and work examples are accepted as better predictors of competency and success over degrees from elite schools? I love that some fields have already overcome this bias. I'm also g
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by glen 17y ago
It isn't done yet, but they've been keeping me up to date and very professional. It should be done in the next 7-10 days.
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by glen 17y ago
I'm using rent-a-coder to develop an iPhone app for an automatic thought record -- a tool that clinicians use to help people challenge irrational thoughts with evidence and rational thoughts. I put the bid out at $300 just to see what happe
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by glen 17y ago
This is pretty remarkable. We have use MTurk to help develop educational content and have thought about using virtual TAs to help w/research and tutoring, but not for actual grading. To me, that feels a bit like a stretch. However, on the o
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by glen 17y ago
Become a for-profit : ).
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by glen 17y ago
Great resource.
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by glen 17y ago
Pretty soon you'll be able to find all of these in an easy to work through sequence, so that you won't have to track PDFs, the course calender, video etc. Instead, it'll be like Lesson 1 - step 1: video, step 2: transcript, step 3: discussi
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by glen 17y ago
Congrats! Thanks for your valuable posts. Indeed, remember to take care of yourself now that you can work anytime you want -- tho your last job sounds like it was quite demanding.
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YouTube EDU 350+ Courses(techcrunch.com)
3 points by glen 17y ago|0 comments
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by glen 17y ago
This is a great concept and Shai is to be applauded for his efforts here. It is a bit of a bummer that they need 5 MM in funding to keep it going. Anyway, even here in the states, you can cut the cost of education significantly by testing o
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by glen 17y ago
Good point about them drawing on the same qualities. Makes sense.
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by glen 17y ago
Well, we ended up hiring a person already. I was just intrigued by the thought that server guys are usually not good programmers and vice versa. What do you think?
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Ask HN: Is this true?
26 points by glen 17y ago|42 comments
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by glen 17y ago
You really shouldn't feel tacky. You offer some great advice. This article from several years ago ( http://www.tonywright.com/2008/bootstrappers-beware/ ) was particularly helpful to us when we were just starting to profitable. Thank you!
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Ask HN: Is it OK to submit job postings on HN?
11 points by glen 17y ago|0 comments
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TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in NYC - Submissions due by 3/26(disrupt.techcrunch.com)
1 points by glen 17y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Agnostic Platform vs. Segmented Approach? or Both?
2 points by glen 17y ago|0 comments
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by glen 17y ago
Sorry (see comment below). Couldn't agree more that you should manage your online web presence.
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by glen 17y ago
Yikes. Posted quickly w/out thinking about it, while eating. You are right. Would delete it if I could. Thanks for keeping me honest :). Will do better next time.
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by glen 17y ago
Couldn't agree more! We at NIXTY think this is particularly important for a person's future educational and occupational opportunities. A blog is great and a LinkedIn profile is great too; however, we think what is needed is a more robust e
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University Changes Tenure Guidelines(nixty.com)
3 points by glen 17y ago|0 comments
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by glen 17y ago
There is a actually a fair amount to learn. We went through an incubator program at William and Mary and learned a ton about identifying FABs (Features, Advantages, Benefits), crafting language to appeal to decision makers (i.e., showing th
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by glen 17y ago
Yes, you are correct. Thank you for your thoughts.
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by glen 17y ago
Good point. I'm a real fan of a/b testing and customer development in general, but not sure that is appropriate in a pre-launch stage or in logo development.
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by glen 17y ago
Don't want to respond yet, just in case it biases others' opinions.
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by glen 17y ago
One was created by a friend with design skills. The other was created by a design professional with a portfolio of work for some pretty big companies (Chase, Polo etc.).
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Ask HN: Which logo do you like better? Why?(nixty.com)
3 points by glen 17y ago|19 comments

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