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by jayzee 16y ago
Another option where you can have best of the both possible worlds is to do a convertible debt round with a conversion cap. That way the deal gets executed cheaply and quickly benefiting the entrepreneurs. The cap benefits the angel for tak
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by jayzee 16y ago
Title is misleading. It is not 'VCs' leaving but rather a 'VC' discovers an opportunity and takes it. A few others may follow. Expect it to be filled soon,
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Google Tech Demo Slam(demoslam.com)
3 points by jayzee 16y ago|0 comments
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by jayzee 16y ago
Expect it to be disabled if it catches on. Facebook most probably will act with vengeance on any app which impacts its main advertising driven revenue stream. If your app catches on then people will log on less frequently and see less ads
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by jayzee 16y ago
Article is surprisingly lacking in logical rigor: Observe X (Trip Advisor above Oyster) Observe Y (Trip Advisor has a cluttered ad-strewn page) Conclude that X is a result of Y. One counter-example to refute article: Wikipedia
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by jayzee 16y ago
Yeah... such curiosity clicking costs advertisers. Conversions on the fb platform are abysmal.
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by jayzee 16y ago
Well isn't it basically because when you are on Google you often have the intent to buy something say plan a trip, rent a car or find a restaurant or whatever. On facebook you are checking out your friends and the adds are not immediately
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by jayzee 16y ago
Without a portfolio it would be tough to get a project. If you don't have a portfolio I would recommend making some stuff up. Take a popular site that you feel you can do a better job designing and do it. Everybody on Odesk or Elance has a
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by jayzee 16y ago
How are you forming these teams? Ad-hoc? Then I would have no allegiance. But if you assign people with birthdays on odd days to one team and even to another then I can see tribal behavior and competition emerging. You have to some reason t
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by jayzee 16y ago
My view is that once you attach a monetary value to such online activity you actually devalue it and the experience of sharing. If each Karma point on HN got me a buck I would not care as much as I care now about how many upvotes I get. -
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by jayzee 16y ago
oh is that what was going on? I had no clue. I put in a search term (scientists) saw nothing and came to the comments section to kvetch. So yeah... that needs to be clearer that the other images are behind the paywall. It was not clear to m
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by jayzee 16y ago
I did read your post. And I think that the Khan academy is doing wonderful things. Both by presenting content in novel ways and also at incredibly low cost. Thats great. But you seem to be tossing the baby out with the bathwater when you su
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by jayzee 16y ago
Interesting but what about poor people who cannot afford good quality education. A better way I think would be for people to keep paying what they do in taxes for education but then giving them vouchers for that amount that they could spend
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by jayzee 16y ago
It is a very good question that pg asked while just joking around something that I guess all entrepreneurs should have an immediate answer to, 'Why doesn't this already exist?'
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by jayzee 16y ago
There is nothing to see unfortunately. Nice video but I don't know how you are bounding my network. Interesting idea though conceptually, but its going to be tough to explain it to the public
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by jayzee 16y ago
hmmm... We got a similar NDA less than a week before a meeting with a research-commercial tech group at Harvard. It was very annoying because the NDA was so over-reaching. Just like in your case. We were meeting to discuss what we could do
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Investors Are Drawn Anew to Digital Music(nytimes.com)
3 points by jayzee 16y ago|0 comments
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by jayzee 16y ago
Good analysis. I have to agree with Gyardley. If he will not acquiesce to a sale and does not want to participate in future rounds then most likely he wants to do a down round. That seems to be the only option that explains his behavior unl
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JPMorgan Fund Seeks Minority Stake in Twitter(dealbook.nytimes.com)
3 points by jayzee 16y ago|0 comments
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by jayzee 16y ago
Misleading title, at least from the quote attributed to Buffett. He says that "The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power" and does not compare it directly to management. And it is not easy to stumble upon
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by jayzee 16y ago
An intent to 'spread the app' without notification is spam
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by jayzee 16y ago
I don't know why people keep saying it got banned for no reason. I can think of a very good reason, mind you, I don't think it is a fair reason... Basically facebook makes money of eye-balls. A lot of people may be checking profiles of
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by jayzee 16y ago
It looks like they have a great brand either because they raised a lot of money or they are backed by a famous VC. It does not seem to be because of the product. If the merger offer is not confidential then you can take it to investors. In
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by jayzee 16y ago
They have an advertising model. People who organize political revolts log in and see Che's t-shirts for sale on the right side of the page. Checking status automatically takes away some incentive from users from logging-on, there by less mo
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by jayzee 16y ago
I rarely let others apps access my facebook account, so I don't know what exactly you do. Which can be a marketing problem since people like me would never sign up till they saw what the app actually did. Which brings me to your description
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by jayzee 16y ago
The one thing that pg does not mention in the essay during company formation having vesting is crucial. I guess everybody knows that by now...
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by jayzee 16y ago
I cannot see the difference between software patents, process patents, or patents on pharmaceutical drugs etc. If one is against software patents then one is against patents in general. I think that the key differentiating factor for softwa
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by jayzee 16y ago
Very well written and a lot of informative content! But I had a question about general solicitation in connection with a private placement? Wouldn't selling your startup (shares) on ebay be in violation of SEC regulations?
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by jayzee 16y ago
What really threw me off my chair was the part where they say that they have incompatible systems and so they have to take the printouts from one system and scan them into the other. absolutely unbelievable
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U.S. Sets 21st-Century Goal: Building a Better Patent Office(nytimes.com)
11 points by jayzee 16y ago|3 comments

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