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by gline 13y ago
"because we can" seems like a pretty good answer. Also, a thing that's interesting to me about campaigns like this one is there are so many iphone users. Even if a small fraction of them actually want to jailbreak their phone
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by gline 13y ago
Given that "No one ever talks about Stripe or Coinbase" is obviously not a good basis for an argument, I assume he means "People don't seem to connect these various businesses and observe that 'financial services&#x
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by gline 13y ago
I think YC takes mid single digit percentages in some form early on? So you figure they get diluted down over time and maybe they have, as a firm, 1-2 percent of the total, so, maybe, 150-250mm? And then PG certainly has a big chunk of that
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by gline 13y ago
Australia, man - gets me every time (at least when there are no visible cars driving on the left)
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by gline 13y ago
There's a clearing price for hotel rooms in NYC based on the built number of hotel rooms. If everyone viewed airbnb and hotels as fundamentally interchangeable then the range of prices for airbnb units would be similar to the range of price
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by gline 13y ago
I'm conceptually in favor of airbnb and its peers. However, in NYC there's definitely an odd dynamic right now - renters are the main proponents of the service, because they can turn around and re-rent their apartments and recoup some of th
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by gline 13y ago
I'm not totally sure it will have been the right choice in retrospect but it was effectively this blog post: http://corner.squareup.com/2012/04/building-analytics.html that lead me to prototype using ember. I believe Square's analytics pl
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by gline 13y ago
There seem to be two schools of thought here, both interesting to me. The author seems to think that his failure has something to do with problems associated with the "lean startup" model and other commenters (lean startup adherents, appare