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by jdp23 16y ago
I'm just curious ... how many of the people who are upset about this have been working for the DREAM Act (which has also being held hostage to 'comprehensive immigration reform')?
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by jdp23 16y ago
InternMatch did a great job at the Innovate 100 Pitch Slam in Seattle (where they finished second). From my writeup at the time: "The crowd went wild after InternMatch’s dramatic reveal at the end of their minute: the person giving the
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Tech firms hiring White House staffers(washingtonpost.com)
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James Grimmelmann's got an excellent analysis of the Google Books opinion at http://laboratorium.net/archive/2011/03/22/inside_judge_chin...
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by jdp23 16y ago
kevin rose at #1 in authority? hmm ...
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As they say, "anonymity loves company"
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by jdp23 16y ago
I see it differently. A good startup has multiple options about what great products it can try to build, the cost and revenue models behind them, and its funding strategy. Products that are great for people who are throwing around money i
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by jdp23 16y ago
Smart move by Facebook if they can make it work. So if the rumors pan out ... - Eric Schmidt from Google to the Obama Administration - Gibbs from the Administration to Facebook
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by jdp23 16y ago
Agreed. I wasn't arguing for absolute transparency. However it's almost always possible to phrase your learnings in such a way that they don't reveal your secret sauce or proprietary secrets.
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by jdp23 16y ago
Great analogy. Also a good point: "One thing to keep in mind, technical debt is a sign of success. Without the continual driver of success, systems don’t evolve to the point of having technical debt. But it’s important to always be aware o
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by jdp23 16y ago
From a strategy perspective, it matters hugely to anybody in or thinking of launching a startup. If there's no bubble, then the current happy days are likely to continue: lots of money chasing after good ideas, huge rewards for the winners
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I thought this was going to be another post about the bubble or Color Labs.
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"If people don't understand it, we engineered it wrong." Indeed.
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Agreed that it might not make sense on a blog; I was just reacting to the general trasparency question. In terms of building brand confidence, my experience is that being honest about mistakes and what you're doing to cut down the chance t
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by jdp23 16y ago
It's more that the risks are different for the massive revenue-generating companies. In a situation were everybody agrees it's a bubble, Facebook, Zynga, Groupon etc. will be under huge pressure to generate more revenues to justify their v
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by jdp23 16y ago
Well said. From a strategy perspective, if there's a bubble and it pops soon, a lot of companies will discover that some of their core assumptions no longer apply. Seems like a great time to be a contrarian.
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by jdp23 16y ago
> you do not put all your learnings in the public view.. why not?
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by jdp23 16y ago
People who don't think there's a bubble focus on the very real differences between the 1990s and now. People who think there is a bubble focus on the patterns that are similar to the 1990s and past bubbles -- including how the optimists a
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by jdp23 16y ago
Groupon and Facebook just raised some pretty major capital ...
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by jdp23 16y ago
His recommendations make a lot of sense: accept that failure is a natural part of doing business, remove structural obstacles to reduce the objective risks of a failed venture, turn failure into fodder. But his overall framing seems to be
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Every answer in my Quora feed right now is from a guy ...(quora.com)
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by jdp23 16y ago
I think of it as a two-dimensional market segmentation perspective: gender on one dimension, race on another. In a lot of segments, almost everybody is fighting it out in the "white guy" quadrant or at least the "guy" half. Take the Q&#38
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by jdp23 16y ago
Everything you say is accurate. At the same time it's worth listening. Buffet's got a great understanding of business models in general and knows a lot more about high tech than people give him credit for -- starting with a close friendsh
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by jdp23 16y ago
More good fodder for bubble discussions. Assume for a moment that he's right, that “Most of them will be overpriced” and “Some will be huge winners, which will make up for the rest.” This is also an accurate description of the dot-com and
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by jdp23 16y ago
I was specifically talking about the "optics", as political analysts like to say.
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The people who are responding to the Fukushima situation by emphasizing how safe nukes are come across as so tone-deaf that they certainly seem rabid.
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by jdp23 16y ago
Actually I was an executive at a traditional corporation (a GM at Microsoft) and before that a founder/CTO at a venture-funded startup ... You're very right that there's a lot of competitive pressure (and social climbers) but we always avoi
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by jdp23 16y ago
> Either that, or freedom from money is not a monotonically increasing function of one's allotment Well said. Freedom from money is a combination of factors: how much you have and spend in the present, and how much you expect to make a
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by jdp23 16y ago
Great post ... wow, what a ride! Thanks for taking the time to share the story.
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by jdp23 16y ago
Career Cup has been doing this for quite a while -- http://www.careercup.com/

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