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by jayzee 15y ago
jugaad ~=hustle
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People knock Webvan around but the founder (Mick Mountz), 10 years after that debacle, founded http://www.kivasystems.com/ where instead of conveyor belts (Webvan) they use robots for managing a warehouse. Seriously cool robotics. Check o
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by jayzee 15y ago
How about algorithmically sequestering suspicious tweets? Reclaiming a tweet and making it live again would involve something like captcha and would have to be done by the person who made the original "false" tweet. That way you are doing t
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Zillow Shares Surge After IPO(online.wsj.com)
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14 Arrested for Alleged Cyberattack on PayPal(nytimes.com)
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Lulz Security Says It Hacked News Corporation Sites(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by jayzee 15y ago
I am guessing people downvoted you because you just included excerpts from the article and said "superb" etc. Your comment did not add any value. Hence the downvotes.
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by jayzee 15y ago
I am not sure I like people offering to work for free. Nor of founders taking people up on this offer. Also, I guess this explains why foursquare signs up so many seeming biz dev wins but still does not manage to generate revenue from any o
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by jayzee 15y ago
Can you tell us why you balked? Market size?
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I said this before in another post, but this article that I read in the New Yorker really hit home for me: The philosopher Mark Kingwell puts it in existential terms: “Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to
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For the past quarter-century, the American Medical Association and other industry groups have predicted a glut of doctors and worked to limit the number of new physicians. [1] The problem is that the supply for doctors is artificially const
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by jayzee 15y ago
Really good point. I have often wandered the corridors in research labs seeing equipment just lying there collecting dust. I suspect that there will be issues around selling stuff but it is something that we are definitely looking into. Onc
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Thanks! We did bring out an ad in Nature a few months ago but the response was underwhelming. The thing with marketing for a startup, we have painfully discovered, is to try non-traditional approaches. Basically something that the other big
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We are busy working on an iphone app in 3 weeks and then an android app in a month. Its the most requested feature so your wife is absolutely right that some people may not want to walk to a comp to enter this stuff. The plan is to then int
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Yup. We feel the same way. Electronic Lab Notebooks are a daunting undertaking and we decided to tackle a problem that we knew we could make a dent in the first pass.
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Just to be clear, Quartzy is free for scientists to use. We want to close the gap between suppliers/manufacturers and scientists. So we are making money by hosting catalogs, running deals etc. Basically charging suppliers who have deep pock
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by jayzee 15y ago
hmm... Interesting. Well we basically helps groups manage their orders and inventories, in decentralized settings like research labs. We started targeting life-science researchers, given our background, but we have seen some interesting upt
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by jayzee 15y ago
Good question. We were inspired by Tumblr. We are tracking how effective the widget at the bottom is... Will report back. Our old page was: www.quartzy.com/current/ so I would say that everything from there is an improvement :)
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Great ideas. Esp. phdcomics! Will try it out and report back in a blog post on what effect it has.
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Thanks! If you poke around the demo account you will see that Charles Darwin has a dissection kit in his inventory and Mendel talks about his love for peas in his profile: http://sandbox.quartzy.com/profiles/gregor123 We spent way more ti
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by jayzee 15y ago
Thanks! The challenge that we have is to find a way to reach these scientists. They rarely, if ever, read techcrunch or hacker news and the standard publications in that space have a long publication cycle. Ideas to reach out to life-scienc
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Isn't good entrepreneurship all about profiting from doing good? I don't see anything wrong with that. Besides Eric and Steve have been expounding on this idea for a while and while it now seems like second-nature, it wasn't obvious back wh
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by jayzee 15y ago
A lot of discussion around dilution ignores the important aspect of the number of founders. If you are a single founder, you might want to raise more money to hire a larger team and you would be fine with greater dilution since you own a bi
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by jayzee 15y ago
"Manufacturing Consent:The Political Economy of the Mass Media," by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
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Lulz Security Says It Is Ending Hacking Spree(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Pandora Shares Climb in Debut(dealbook.nytimes.com)
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I.M.F. Hit by Sophisticated Cyberattack(nytimes.com)
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Citi Confirms Data Breach at Citi Account Online(nytimes.com)
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Hot New York City Startups(businessinsider.com)
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News of the World Apologizes for Hacking Sienna Miller’s Phone(nytimes.com)
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