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by hillel 17y ago
This analysis is sorely lacking perspective. I could pick on a bunch of things but I'll just choose one to make my point. Cringely's assertion that Google should fear making Google search not work on Windows PCs is ludicrous. Period. Anyone
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Given the odds, is taking venture capital the best way to get rich?(jacksonfish.com)
32 points by hillel 17y ago|20 comments
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by hillel 17y ago
I generally agree with your girlfriend. And to be clear, I never said that regular consistent performance feedback was bad. I said that the annual performance review was not a substitute for it.
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by hillel 17y ago
I'm planning a follow-up post on that topic. :)
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by hillel 17y ago
Constant honest and open feedback is always a good thing. My point is that performance reviews are often used as a substitute for constant honest and open feedback. And as such, they are a failure.
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Employee Performance Reviews Do More Harm Than Good(jacksonfish.com)
30 points by hillel 17y ago|26 comments
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by hillel 17y ago
I recorded a song based on the kottke post and a similar thread over on marginalrevolution.com. http://www.sugarfix.net/2008/06/23/song-1000-ad/
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Google style perks at your startup?(jacksonfish.com)
2 points by hillel 17y ago|0 comments
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by hillel 17y ago
I guess some people may be completely unable to grow their own business, but f you have a business that already has happy paying customers, then why sell out. It feels to me like you've already done the hard part. http://www.jacksonfish.co
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by hillel 18y ago
Neat idea except for the part about using investors to validate which startup counts. What about the plenty of viable and compelling startups that have decided to bootstrap?
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“Lifestyle Business” Defined in Under 140 Chars(jacksonfish.com)
1 points by hillel 18y ago|0 comments
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Attention Ye Olde Internet Nerds, Potential Gig Opportunity(jacksonfish.com)
1 points by hillel 18y ago|1 comments
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Fake Steve Jobs Banned From CNBC For Life(alleyinsider.com)
4 points by hillel 18y ago|2 comments
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An Open Letter to Dell Customer Service(jacksonfish.com)
1 points by hillel 18y ago|0 comments
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What's a brand marketer to do in a down economy?(jacksonfish.com)
3 points by hillel 18y ago|0 comments
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I like the Microsoft ads.(jacksonfish.com)
1 points by hillel 18y ago|0 comments
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by hillel 18y ago
But that's not the question. The question is: where is your best bet as a founder to make the most money over the long haul factoring in the relative odds of any success at all (which are likely different).
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Bootstraps vs. VC Funded — Who’s most likely to make the most money?(jacksonfish.com)
5 points by hillel 18y ago|3 comments
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The Hidden Cost of Hidden Costs(jacksonfish.com)
1 points by hillel 18y ago|0 comments
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Judgment, Hope, and Being a Public Company(jacksonfish.com)
1 points by hillel 18y ago|0 comments
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Are you a top down or bottoms up kind of leader?(jacksonfish.com)
3 points by hillel 18y ago|0 comments
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Maybe an engineering project will bring peace to the middle east.(businessweek.com)
1 points by hillel 18y ago|0 comments
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by hillel 18y ago
I had a post on this same topic. Lots of good suggestions in the post... especially if you want to start from the perspective of making video games. http://www.jacksonfish.com/blog/2007/08/28/programming-for-k...
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by hillel 18y ago
Direct sale is an excellent model but I don't think it's a requirement. To me it underscores the main principle which is about reducing dependencies. Why convince two parties to do something (someone to visit your site, and an advertiser to
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How to piss off your users.(jacksonfish.com)
12 points by hillel 19y ago|3 comments
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by hillel 19y ago
There's another advertising model that may work for small companies. Here at Jackson Fish Market there are three of us. I think that counts as small. :) We also are a bootstrap. We make small beautiful web apps and offer sponsorships to bra
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by hillel 19y ago
Actually, I think that is the point. Big companies are not necessarily always optimizing for employee and customer satisfaction. And frankly, with their size, creating a sustainable healthy internal environment becomes more and more difficu
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Library 2.0 - Service for the next generation library(libraryjournal.com)
1 points by hillel 19y ago|0 comments
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by hillel 19y ago
Agreed on all fronts. Of course, doing ad-supported projects in the consumer market make the lead-to-sale connection much more tenuous/indirect.Whether that's a logical path is of course an entirely different debate. ;)
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by hillel 19y ago
Thanks for all the comments. @edw519: We're certainly big fans of revenue. We even have a non-trivial amount of it (for a 3 person startup). :) The whole point of the post is that we don't believe anybody has reliable predictive power over

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