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by gregcohn 13y ago
This is interesting. I had an idea a few years back that was a variation of this as a consumer/small business service, rather than a developer one. The idea (roughly) was predicated on the belief that much information that needs to be
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by gregcohn 13y ago
Good context here: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/hackin... IMHO: this is worthy of our attention.
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by gregcohn 13y ago
Thanks -- understood that the platform is national.
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by gregcohn 13y ago
An analytical way to look at this would be to compare the "net present value" of the future earnings from the two opportunities. Given that the startup has not raised any funding or revenue yet, and I don't hear you saying a
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by gregcohn 13y ago
OK i looked at your HN post, your splash page, and your home page, and I still don't know WHERE you're running for congress. Perhaps you could lay out the basic vitals and your qualifications or platform here?
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by gregcohn 13y ago
Make your decision based on the quality of the program, mentorship, and imprimatur. You're most likely going to pivot around anyway at some point in your life. 25K isn't really very much money, but if you can get paid to have an
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by gregcohn 13y ago
FWIW, I know of at least one member of the billion-plus exit club who was a core founder & did sidework during the early days....
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by gregcohn 13y ago
it sounds likely to be someone trying to reset the password for username "mattm". possibly malicious, though given its its "very common first name + first letter" format, it strikes as very possibly a confused user thin
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Ask HN: Freelancer-friendly work-for-hire contracts?
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by gregcohn 13y ago
IANAL, but having spent time at a big company, I can tell you the issue here is clarity of IP ownership. Of course employees should be able to do what they want on their own time, but employers usually feel entitled to the fruits of things
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by gregcohn 13y ago
What does it mean to you to "own identity"? Do you think there will be one unified identity across services?
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by gregcohn 13y ago
I think this question would be better phrased as, "How much of a pay or benefits cut would you be willing to take in order to work for a socially conscious employer?" Studies have been done along these lines measuring consumer wil
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by gregcohn 13y ago
If you're passionate about continuing to build out the vision of this project, you're probably not going to agree on a number. If you're happy to take a little cash for it and move on to the next idea, or even if you're
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by gregcohn 13y ago
Twitter has made this announcement: https://blog.twitter.com/2012/introducing-innovators-patent-... I haven't seen too many others following suit. My guess is it's similar to putting land development rights in
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by gregcohn 13y ago
Interesting more for the visualization than the content.
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Flickr breaks Creative Commons attribution and functions(boingboing.net)
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by gregcohn 13y ago
I'm extremely curious to know exactly what about the comment you're replying to sparked the "liberal" label. I don't want to create a political discussion here, but it seemed like the reply was taking pains to sugg
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by gregcohn 13y ago
I don't think it's silly at all to put some things behind auth. There's a fine line between usefulness and stalking.
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by gregcohn 13y ago
This is sort of like asking whether you should marry the person you're seeing. Um, it depends. If you believe in the opportunity of the company or believe you can influence and contribute to a real success there, you should consider t
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by gregcohn 13y ago
Twitter made it easy to post in broadcast mode, as well as fun and easy to consume the broadcasts of others.
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by gregcohn 13y ago
And of course if the dealer themselves took the trade-in, as is often enough the case at a prime-brand dealership where they do a lot of leasing, they get all the markup in that value chain.
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by gregcohn 13y ago
noting that a $299/year Amazon fresh subscription is required to play, this thing probably amortizes itself and then some pretty quickly. (Increases frequency of orders, increases number of things ordered, likely to increase retention
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by gregcohn 13y ago
The fundamental problem that you have here, as I think plays out across previous comments, is that $25-75K is not a large enough stake to both diversify and achieve large, life-changing returns. If you'd gotten 50K into the first round
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Ask HN: What is your talent CRM / applicant tracker setup?
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by gregcohn 13y ago
As an additional point of clarification in the hope it helps the OP, and based on lack of clarity on this in some of the responses, "NDA" stands for "non-disclosure agreement". A "standard NDA" -- to the exten
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by gregcohn 13y ago
Los Angeles, full-time, technical and growth roles at Burner ( http://burnerapp.com ). Dig in and find our jobs page if you want to be part of a fast-growing, well-funded team in LA and are interested in our mission to empower mob
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by gregcohn 13y ago
I would consider explaining to her the following: 1. that the time to have negotiated that deal would have been prior to your doing all the work; 2. now that you have done it and have no obligation to sign this, she can't do anything w
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by gregcohn 13y ago
I've been looking forward to the conversation moving beyond phone records. In California, for example, it's mandatory to collect blood from newborns. Makes you think.
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Sluice uses big data to help Amazon merchants manage demand(pando.com)
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by gregcohn 13y ago
I tried shopping with TrueCar as an end-user (while seriously in the market for a car) and found the experience not very good. I put in the make/model I wanted and got a bunch of dealers calling me -- woohoo. Car dealers seem to exhib

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