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by jbenz 18y ago
I think Chris Anderson meant that Gilder was correctly anticipating a company like YouTube: one that would "waste" bandwidth. The people who could capture that revenue model would win, and did.
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"The wasters of bandwidth will win..."(longtail.com)
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You're the best! Around! Nothing's ever gonna keep you down! Great story. I appreciated the Karate Kid and Indiana Jones references.
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Actually, I did claim to be motivated by money. I said the only thing that motivates me more than money is history. I don't necessarily associate fame (or celebrity) with being remembered. There are many great filmmakers or company founde
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"They will all be forgotten in fifty years anyway. Steve Balmer, Steven Cohen, and Larry Ellison will all be forgotten." The only thing that motivates me in my professional life more than money is history. I would like to be remembered. I
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This is exactly what I thought as I read the article. We're talking about an entire generation of young workers who might not be able to reach their full financial potential (as measured against the past six years, at least). But you're ri
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"Your search - youtube - did not match any documents." What a crazy world we lived in.
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I take it the service is free? Slip the word "free" into the homepage content somewhere. Great design. It look professional because it's so simple.
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This an older article from WIRED (March 2007). A writer was able to buy votes to a lame, made-up blog post. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/03/72832 I'll try to find something newer.
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"...the idiocy of millions who don’t understand that those blue-underlined words on the right of search results are NOT, in fact, search results at all." Wrong. If you're researching a paper, then the sponsored search results might not be y
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Alaskamiller, I noticed your comment at the top of the TC post: "Chris Sacca = Google buyout within a year." I agree. If I founded a YC Company, or any other startup, I'd look at Omnisio's story and think about duplicating it. Clearly Chr
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That's very true, but that's also what's so exciting about this whole movement. We're in the middle of something pretty special. An all YC Founders at Work would tell the story of a few exits, but it could also get into the details of som
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I'd be interested in an all YC edition of Founders at Work.
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We talk about Microsoft all the time, but rarely is it as positive as this. Bill Gates actually made me laugh.
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That giraffe has been in our family for six years.
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The key is to recommend the products you are advertising. Don't hide away the ads like they are something of which to be ashamed. Find a product or brand you like, and honestly recommend them. Have a header that says "Products we admire"
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Just to let you know, I was one of those people who reviewed and commented on PolishMyWriting when you posted it here 16 days ago. Your site has continued to stick in my head. There's been more than one occasion that I've thought this emai
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Very functional. Good tips. I think the "instant improvement" button should be renamed. I was looking for a "submit" button or a "show suggestions" button. Instant improvement almost implies that the changes will be made automatically. Pl
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The blurb about your site with the "join now" button looks like an ad because of the placement and because it is roughly 300x250 pixels. Cool logo.
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This article is a couple of years old. It's an interview with AbeBooks co-founder Rick Pura. They found a need and solved it. "We went to the booksellers conventions, and we passed out our brochures and sent them off to whatever lists of
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by jbenz 18y ago
My Mom always wants the screen to "return to the way it was". Me: You mean the desktop? Mom: I don't know. The way it was. Me: Is it this? (shows her the desktop) Mom: No. It was all black. Me: You mean off? (shuts computer down) Mom:
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by jbenz 18y ago
About 8 years ago I remember reading an advice column in which the letter writer was concerned because her child's friends were all reading Harry Potter. She referenced this article: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/harry_potter_books
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Mine says it will ship August 7th. Why so long? I really like the "Chicken Exit: If you don't want to purchase this shirt, click here to release it back into the wild." The whole goal is to get a customer who really likes a design but mayb
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It is safe for work. It's a non-objectionable t-shirt site.
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What's wrong is they don't have much competition. There's always some market share available if you put in the legwork and sign up the restaurants OpenTable misses. There's always room for improvement, too.
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If you're in a competitive industry, I'm not sure how much effect this will have. The Quality Score only effects your minimum bid settings. For example, most of my minimum bids are $0.05 and I'm bidding $1.50 a click. Even if my load tim
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I wonder what this means for Adpinion. If this works for Facebook, will ad-voting become more mainstream? If so, Adpinion is in a pretty good position. Or do they feel like Facebook is stealing their idea?
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Me too. I also got an error message pop-up. But hey, it's a brand new service. I'm not judging.
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Right, I guess it's always been pretty obvious to most of us that the media uses fear for ratings. But there were some interesting examples in State of Fear that were new to me.
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Anyone read Crichton's novel 'State of Fear'? There is a lot of ridiculousness in those pages (along with a pretty weak plot), but his comments about Fearmongering in the media for profit made a lot of sense. I just get tired of being told

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