jasonoliver

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by jasonoliver 14y ago
Artists and Media companies know that music copyright is impossible to enforce, and they do not build their business around selling of music content. In China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, no one buys CDs, but people spend a ton on consumer goods
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by jasonoliver 14y ago
It is amazing how hard this concept is for businesses to grasp. If you build your service and brand around trust with your customers, you will earn long-term value that far exceeds short term gain of focusing on money first. Unfortunately m
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by jasonoliver 16y ago
They are already losing traction and engagement with their only remaining target userbase, namely musicians and bands. If Newscorp is able to unload it, it will likely be for a Bebo-like amount (when Aol sold it, not when they bought it, lo
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by jasonoliver 16y ago
Having Yuri involved is also brilliant in that it will allow super early stage startups to think globally from the start, and while they may not focus on global markets when they design v1.0 of their products and services, they will at leas
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by jasonoliver 17y ago
you also seem to suggest that they are directly competing with each other. i use both tumblr and posterous, but i would venture a guess that many many posterous users would never ever consider using tumblr, while many tumblr users would nev
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by jasonoliver 17y ago
you use the word insofar a lot.
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by jasonoliver 17y ago
oh wow i cant believe i am just reading about this now after traveling for work the past 2 weeks. dan was my first yc friend and welcomed me to the community as a young vc looking for cool companies. i am utterly in shock and entirely sadde
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by jasonoliver 18y ago
rapidshare, zshare, sharebee, how many of these can exist? i mean if rapidshare goes down, just use one of the dozens of others no?
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by jasonoliver 18y ago
how bad is it that because i work in finance, i immediately assumed the "receptionist test" meant sitting with the receptionist for 5 minutes without sexually harrassing her or trying to hit on her. so sad haha.
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by jasonoliver 18y ago
HTC has a lot of stuff up their sleeves, this is just their first Android phone for the US. froma design perspective, before the iPhone came out, HTC was lightyears ahead of any other handset manufacturer. I'm very much looking forward to t
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by jasonoliver 18y ago
also knowing garry and sachin and david karp, they are all product people at heart. they are building products with direct user feedback. i dont know many people who take their customers more seriously, and take more time tweeking and itera
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by jasonoliver 18y ago
hey man, every person has their own path. garry and sachin went to stanford then worked at big co's before they started posterous, while david karp lived abroad and studied firsthand how people communicate in countries where communication i
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by jasonoliver 18y ago
how is this different from other web radio programs? i actually don't use any and this is pretty intuitive. i imagine most others are similar though. i only use imeem and bittorrent/iphone for music these days.