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by jayliew 14y ago
1. The value/measure of a VC to their bosses (their LP / investors) are whether or not they provide a good return. Period. Their bosses do not incentivize them based on great interviewing skills. There is nothing to be "called out" for here
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by jayliew 14y ago
Perhaps this is merely a difference in perception. I re-read nirvana's post I originally responded after reading your perception of it, and it comes off defensive and passive aggressive. In particular: "Thus, given that we've decided your t
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by jayliew 14y ago
This response just proves the OP's point. Give him credit for opening up, instead of this response (which is not constructive), and comes off as an attack back at him. For VCs to make money, they need to have as many founders like them, so
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Sales for Start-ups: Finding Common Ground(hotprospect.com)
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Equity value - Chris Dixon(cdixon.org)
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Startups: What does it feel like to be the CEO of a start-up?(quora.com)
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Never Take Your Eyes Off This Hacker Metric(techcrunch.com)
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by jayliew 14y ago
Curious, have you given dotcloud a try? Good roundup list.
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by jayliew 14y ago
I'm not referring to "it's good practice to test your code". I mean, TDD aka. writing tests to fail, then writing code to make the tests pass. Specifically, behavior driven testing, not just TDD.
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by jayliew 14y ago
People often confuse ethnicity and nationality - you need to be more concrete with your example. Two Caucasians (ethnicity) who are US citizens living in China gives birth to a baby in China, then the baby would be Caucasian (ethnicity), an
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by jayliew 14y ago
I'm a Django guy who started picking up some Rails out of curiosity, and that's when I realized how great TDD, specifically, automating behavior-driven testing is in general .. and I was wondering why it didn't seem like a prominent thing i
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by jayliew 14y ago
I know how that feels. Last year when I was a single founder, I went to a startup-founder "health" event at 500 Startups, and one of the speakers (ex-Zynga corp dev guy, Bret) gave a talk. Since he's the one acquiring companies, he mentione
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by jayliew 14y ago
Neat. Like a real-life + hardware version of ifttt.com
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Your job is to run through obstacles, no excuses, whatever life circumstances(vimeo.com)
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Convertible Note Seed Financings: Founders Beware(techcrunch.com)
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by jayliew 14y ago
Promise you'll write part 2! Thank you so much for sharing - can totally relate. All the best, Tom.
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Startups: For The Love of the Game | Om Malik(om.co)
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Demoting A Loyal Friend(bhorowitz.com)
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How OMGPOP Founder Charles Forman 'Grew Up' And Became A Multi-Millionaire(businessinsider.com)
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by jayliew 15y ago
Very cool. Does this work with Android too?
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by jayliew 15y ago
Customers don't care about your cool technology, they pay you to solve a real problem they have. That has always been the case. If you see a successful company with cool technology, it's because it ALSO solved a real pain the customer had
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by jayliew 15y ago
Which is what I'm guessing as well. Since it's not a product-issue, Kevin's not-coding didn't hurt. Which was the point I was trying to get at. Even if he could code, that wouldn't help solve the market-fit problem.
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by jayliew 15y ago
I'd go one step further: don't hate. It's a negative feeling emotion that will do yourself more harm in the long run :) Be happy for people's success. Would you want people to hate you when you succeed?
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by jayliew 15y ago
This is a hits driven business. How many people do you see with a string of successes and zero failures? Kevin has had a few ventures, with varying degree of "success", which is more than most people can say. Consider the statistically typi
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by jayliew 15y ago
Did Oink fail because of product, or market? If it's product, being technical will help, if it's market, being technical won't help. (edit: to add, the product worked - so it likely wasn't a problem with the product.)
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by jayliew 15y ago
People's natural tendency to associate good looks with intelligence, etc. has been documented (IIRC), but I completely disagree that it cannot be overcome if YOU decide you will "fix" it. Example: Sean Stephenson http://timetostand.com/ (
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by jayliew 15y ago
To quote pg: "A hacker who has learned what to make, and not just how to make, is extraordinarily powerful." As a developer, it is frustrating to see fellow developers place too much importance on being able to code as a necessary ingredien
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by jayliew 15y ago
And the mistakes he made will just be papered over while what worked is left to be studied. Actually, what didn't work is very valuable. That's the whole point of things like customer development/lean startup. You learn why something didn
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Partnering with Goliath: A Tale of Two Announcements // John O'Farrell(john.a16z.com)
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Making the Turn - Leveraging a Pivot into Growth - Hungry Yet Humble(brianshin.com)
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