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by ig1 13y ago
The standard isn't "household name", but rather "acquired distinctiveness" which in the US is defined under the terms of Section 2(f) of the Trademark Act
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by ig1 13y ago
Facebook was completely generic. Facebook used to be term for the paperback student profile books that universities produced. Facebook the website started as an electronic version of the paper facebooks.
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by ig1 13y ago
The term "Windows" to refer to the GUI element was in common use from the 70s (the term WIMP was coined in 1980) long before Microsoft Windows was released.
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by ig1 13y ago
Which Paper are you talking about 53 or Facebook ?
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by ig1 13y ago
"I always use Paper on my ipad for all my pictures, you should check it out" Which app would you download from the appstore ?
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by ig1 13y ago
If your main interest in in remote work you'd be much better off by applying to companies with a remote working culture rather than trying to convince a traditional company to change it's work structure. Open source companies in p
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by ig1 13y ago
IAP isn't just a mobile concept, the non-mobile IAP sector is as large as the mobile one. The desktop game CrossFire did $1bn revenue last year through micro-transactions: http://www.superdataresearch.com/blog/us-d
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by ig1 13y ago
When thinking about gaming business models it's important to think about the context in the history of gaming. Since in the 1980s in addition to retail and digital sales the business models we've seen have included: * Pay-to-p
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by ig1 13y ago
You can turn off sms verification and use the Google Authenticator instead.
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by ig1 13y ago
The two aren't opposites, hiring someone you've worked with before and who's skills you've seen in action is different from hiring your drinking buddy regardless of their skill level.
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by ig1 13y ago
Obviously connections matter. Trying to hire the best people is much much harder if you don't have connections to make the introductions and vouch for you.
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by ig1 13y ago
Probably a bit late at this stage but it's important to make sure that the seed investors don't own too large a percentage of the company, especially if they have follow-on rights. A messy cap table can kill an otherwise good inve
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by ig1 13y ago
The one obvious flaw is the "email us for our PGP key" - distributing the public key in private and over an insecure channel makes it vulnerable to replacement. Has anyone written a "best practices" guide for designing a
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by ig1 13y ago
Yes a number of times. Rapportive, Etacts and Xobni were all YC and competitors. YC has also funded a number of competing developer recruitment startups.
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by ig1 13y ago
Duplo
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by ig1 13y ago
What about recovering alcoholics, people who avoid alcohol for religious reasons, and people under the drinking age ? There are clearly groups who don't or can't go to events because alcohol plays a prominent part (i.e other peop
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by ig1 13y ago
Talk to your accelerator and your other investors (assuming they're typical startup investors), they'll have seen plenty of other startups fail and will be able to give you advice how to handle the situation. They'll also kno
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by ig1 13y ago
It seems with the selfie because of the time taken for changes to show-up that people might get demotivated in the interim. Have you considered doing the same for food instead ? That is having people take photos of all their meals and autom
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by ig1 13y ago
The US has had rulings that linking can itself be illegal, notably in Universal v. Reimerdes and Intellectual Reserve v. Utah Lighthouse Ministry.
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by ig1 13y ago
This just seems silly. The Facebook ad pointed at the game webpage while the AdMob ad pointed to the appstore. Obviously ads that point to the appstore are going to convert at a higher rate.
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by ig1 13y ago
It's not a case of "relevant for hackers" vs "relevant for everyone else" but how you source jobs. If you're getting jobs via your network then a resume will largely be unimportant, if you're applying thro
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by ig1 13y ago
Well Uber can dismiss the employees. But Gett can take Uber to court, and possibly make a criminal complaint.
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by ig1 13y ago
While I appreciate that it's possible to cut down the upfront costs with talented staff, it still seems that things like clinical trials will cost hundreds of millions of dollars (at least that's the price range I've seen for
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by ig1 13y ago
Given the high cost (hundreds of millions) of taking a vaccine through clinical trials, FDA approval and production I'm curious why the choice to go the non-profit route. Is the growth plan to raise the money from large donors (Gates f
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by ig1 13y ago
No she doesn't. The exact quote is "I don't remember" which is completely different from "I didn't". That's the danger of implication, it makes you think one thing is meant while another is actually s
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by ig1 13y ago
Move to a tech hub in Europe, given you speak English then London would be the obvious option (Berlin might be another option if you want to work for startups). There's also other countries in Europe where you can study post-grad CS i
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by ig1 13y ago
There seems to be an implication that Google somehow obtained this information and added it to her account automatically, while this might be technically feasible I'm not aware of any actual claim that this is the case. Much more likel
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by ig1 13y ago
There's plenty of companies in the third-party on-site review space (TrustPilot, Feefo, Yotpo, etc.) - maybe you should look at how they work.
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The effect of today’s technology on tomorrow’s jobs(economist.com)
107 points by ig1 13y ago|112 comments
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by ig1 13y ago
There's a building body of evidence which indicates that returns are increasingly going to capital and not labour, however not as a result of "power-grabs" but rather technology (the same thing happened during the early part

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