jaspertheghost

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by jaspertheghost 18y ago
The issue is your field. If you just had a B.S. and you were doing computer science, I'd say go for startups, but the barriers to entry for biotech firms are much higher. Typically they fund professors and Ph.D's and not undergrads.
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One-on-One with Jim Breyer(alumni.hbs.edu)
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by jaspertheghost 18y ago
Innovation and utility is defined by use. If people want to use social networks and not some microformats to enable the semantic web, that's innovation. All this complaining about working on worthwhile products has some truth to it, but l
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by jaspertheghost 18y ago
It's true that you need additional skills to grow a successful company, but without the product/technical skills, you can't start recruit or sustain a company. A technical company is primarily a function of its people and its products.
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by jaspertheghost 18y ago
It's true that you need additional skills to grow a successful company, but without the product/technical skills, you can't start recruit or sustain a company. A technical company is primarily a function of its people and its products.
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by jaspertheghost 18y ago
It's true that you need additional skills to grow a successful company, but without the product/technical skills, you can't start recruit or sustain a company. A technical company is primarily a function of its people and its products.
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Use PHP to build a Twitter-like system on your site(ibm.com)
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by jaspertheghost 18y ago
I personally read a lot and I think the electronic medium will add an additional layer of value: annotation, collaboration, access to a large amount of knowledge without having to lug around paper. Print's slowly dying because it's not lin
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Conceive, Choose, Create, Communicate: Advice for successful projects from a hacker(media.mit.edu)
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by jaspertheghost 18y ago
Most people these days are lamenting about the death of innovation in the valley. It reminds me of when Arthur Rock said that innovation was dead right before the internet started taking off. "He predicts few dramatic technological breakth
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Michael Moritz on Arthur Rock: "The Best Long-Ball Hitter Around"(time.com)
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Michael Arrington speaks with Peter Thiel(techcrunch50.com)
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The view from Silicon Valley(money.cnn.com)
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Petrodollar Warfare & Collapse of U.S. Dollar Imperialism(chuckcoppes.com)
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The U.S. Economy according to Thiel(youtube.com)
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If you gave me $1 billion to knock off Snickers, I can’t do it.(undergroundvalue.blogspot.com)
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Carl Icahan on Economics(oyc.yale.edu)
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by jaspertheghost 18y ago
Old guard always wants to protect a dying business because the people in charge have to wipe out their existing knowledge and experience of their business to go into a new business. When he/she goes into the new business, he/she would have
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by jaspertheghost 18y ago
Advertising comes from T.V. and print, where there's inherent scarcity. Advertising on social media needs to adapt to that and try to understand the keys to unlocking engagement with brands.
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by jaspertheghost 18y ago
I don't the decision should be evaluated just as a yes or no decision. There was a piece of research that looked at applicants to Ivy Leagues and applicants to magnet schools. For applicants of High School Magnet schools, the leading indi
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by jaspertheghost 18y ago
Sure, but he was always an inveterate tinkerer. Much like the passage described below: http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/bennis-genius.html Many of the people in our Great Groups are tinkerers--the kind of people who, as children, too
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by jaspertheghost 18y ago
I really like functional languages while others hate it, but I don't think functional languages will take off by itself. The reason why functional languages don't work is that they're they wrong metaphor. Object oriented programming works
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Nurture the Unpredictable(newsweek.com)
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Encourage the Rebels(newsweek.com)
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The Models of Asian VCs(theriskmaster.blogspot.com)
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Tim Draper gives Survival 2010 tips(vator.tv)
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by jaspertheghost 18y ago
While long term optimism is a force multiplier, short term pessimism is the key to success. This is the exact reason why you see people at "successful" startups/companies jump to very early startups (pre-product/market fit) and completel
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by jaspertheghost 18y ago
Asking whether you'll jump or not, is always the wrong question. If you're asking yourself that question, you're probably not an entrepreneur. Most entrepreneurs that are successful have multiple previous startups and have always made the
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by jaspertheghost 18y ago
There's many startups attempting to do this including pipl.com, http://cazoodle.com/ among others. Here's some research about it: http://www-sal.cs.uiuc.edu/~kcchang/
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by jaspertheghost 18y ago
If you're not actively managing your portfolio, the biggest thing you can make sure to do is asset allocation a la David F. Swensen. I'd recommend Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment.

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