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by ispivey 14y ago
dalton, I think that's a good answer but it needs to be way above the fold. I had to watch the video before I knew exactly what was up.
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by ispivey 14y ago
SQL For Web Nerds is a terrific resource for learning SQL. http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/ If your data model is built on top of an RDBMS, learning how one works is the best first step to designing good data models!
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by ispivey 14y ago
What happens to his relationship with Founders Fund? A venture investor can't sustainably direct opportunities to multiple vehicles that have the same/overlapping mandates.
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by ispivey 14y ago
It's definitely not for everyone. However, one of the reason this often works for small startups is that we hire our friends. From among my friends, I find the people whose abilities I know best, who I trust the most, and who I'm confident
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by ispivey 14y ago
We did the same thing for two weeks in Mexico. It cost about $8k for a team of 5, including one guy flying from Argentina. In productivity terms, we juiced payroll by ~50% for a two week period and got much more than 50% extra work done.
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by ispivey 14y ago
Nobody's made the obvious point yet: It depends on what kind of business you're running. Some businesses benefit from lots of publicity and buzz, and have real barriers to entry. These are generally companies with teams, bigger than a one-
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by ispivey 14y ago
I hope they're getting a mandate to build gifting / ecommerce transactions into a revenue stream for Facebook whatever way they can. Bring back Free Gifts / FB Gifts with a vengeance. One-click purchase of products advertised in the sideb
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by ispivey 15y ago
A good PR firm is an enormous help. Having a practiced, impartial judge to help craft your message is valuable. So is someone who already has relationships with folks in the press -- it's the same principle as approaching VCs via entrepre
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by ispivey 15y ago
The biggest benefits of timeline are (1) making it easier to see stuff in the past and (2) calling out the most memorable important events/content while hiding less important stuff. They could have done this in a list format, but using the
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by ispivey 15y ago
Yeah, absolutely. Making people better aware of best practices so they don't have to think about it is a great mission!
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by ispivey 15y ago
To everyone amazed by the various suboptimal decisions that startups make, think of it this way: the easiest, most straightforward solution is always the best one until it's more costly than some alternative. I'd rather have my team working
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by ispivey 15y ago
The problem Chamath is highlighting is not that the founders are cashing out. Or that early employees are not getting cash -- everyone with vested common stock gets a proportional amount of the cash. The big difference is that since the fo
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by ispivey 16y ago
go bang
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by ispivey 17y ago
They look awfully similar, but no; Campaign Monitor's site was designed by design firm 31Three before Ballpark was launched: http://www.31three.com/portfolio/#campaign_monitor http://newism.com.au/blog/post/90/building-campaign-monitor-.
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by ispivey 17y ago
No; other people read the article, and have heard the news that Microsoft plans to have a modified (compliant) version for sale as soon as this injunction takes effect.
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by ispivey 17y ago
It's in closed beta with a number of vendors, like @sightglass & @lilybellesf. According to their Twitter, they're taking beta applications later today: http://twitter.com/Square/status/6242394391
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by ispivey 17y ago
Unlike a student loan, I could simply refuse to pay back the 3%. In the relatively unlikely case a court held the contract valid, I could shed it in bankruptcy. The downside case is much better with the "3% equity in a person" investment t
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by ispivey 17y ago
These sound like things to avoid if you want to get a cushy job at a big company, not find stimulating work at a start-up. Or is that the point? Color me confused.
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by ispivey 17y ago
Management fees are a necessary component of an investment fund, unless you want to allow only independently wealthy investment advisors to launch new funds. That's fine for Marc Andreesen and Fred Wilson, but I'd like to think we don't wa
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by ispivey 17y ago
If I were in Techcrunch's shoes, I wouldn't link to tweetknots because I wouldn't want to give press exposure to a site that brazenly copied its design, css & images from Twitter. I'm a pretty big Techcrunch hater (and the idea of TC re
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by ispivey 17y ago
I think many more people can agree that passion/obsession is required; self-destructive behavior can be caused by this obsession. But your post suggest the causal link is the opposite: that sacrificing health and family can lead to success.
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by ispivey 17y ago
Theoretically, these auctions could (and should) continue indefinitely, because every time a new bid is placed the remaining auction time is extended. Because of this indefinite extension, and because the way most people play this auction g
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by ispivey 17y ago
But his example, a plumbing business, both solves a pain in the marketplace (people need their pipes fixed and plumbing installed) and is not at all innovative.
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by ispivey 17y ago
The really shady thing is how Swoopo shows the same auctions to people bidding with different currencies. Look at the front pages of these two sites: http://www.swoopo.com/ and http://www.swoopo.co.uk/ You probably won't see the same i
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by ispivey 17y ago
I saved money while working at my last job. But I'd point out that working on a startup full-time does not preclude receiving cash compensation. Aside from the founders, the current employees of my start-up are earning competitive cash com
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by ispivey 17y ago
The layout is broken for me as well (Safari 4).
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by ispivey 18y ago
"We cannot and do not accept responsibility for protecting against the misuse or disclosure of any information unless we have expressly agreed (in writing) to do so." Well, of course they aren't responsible for protecting your information u
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by ispivey 18y ago
That strikes me as a terrible idea. His plan would have the founders constantly second-guessing each other over reaching milestones, and would take ordinary disputes ("You never start work before 11AM"; "The design work is taking 3x as lon