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by jedc 15y ago
One of the best definitions of management that I ever read was just four words: "allocation of scarce resources". Resources are time, money, people, and it's not easy to make the decisions required to allocate them wisely. Strip away all t
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Thoughts on VC portfolio construction (Roger Ehrenberg)(informationarbitrage.com)
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YouTube's Hunter Walk: It's fine to get an MBA but don't be an MBA(hunterwalk.com)
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by jedc 15y ago
I think it could be really positive. Just the fact that this option exists will re-orient everyone's YC applications toward thinking about making sure they've got the best team. I would presume that there would be a very high bar to be ac
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by jedc 15y ago
Yes, they're copycats. But those of us who live in Europe sometimes get absolutely infuriated by US-based startups who go for years ignoring potential non-US customers. I'm sure Fab.com would have eventually rolled out to Europe, but in
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by jedc 15y ago
Not so much. If you've used flight search, you'll have seen that it's instant response. Change a filter on price, length of flight... anything... and the results instantly change. The results are pre-computed... thus extending it to intern
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Seed Accelerators Knowledge Base - info on YC & other accelerators(seedaccelerators.jedchristiansen.com)
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A knowledge base & newsletter for seed accelerators world-wide(blog.jedchristiansen.com)
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by jedc 15y ago
I have a Kindle DX and it's absolutely awesome. It's not much larger area-wise than a large hardcover book, but obviously quite a bit thinner. I can understand why Amazon keeps pushing the regular-size Kindles (price-point), but the DX sho
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by jedc 15y ago
and Conrad, while we're at it. :)
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Congratulations, Rahul, Martin, and Sam! This is great news. :)
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Of course, that was backed up by a release schedule that launched new features/improvements on a near-daily basis for 3+ months afterword. If somebody launches a product to "beta" and can't quickly improve on it, I don't really consider it
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by jedc 15y ago
Would you prefer Twitter or something else? Or do you want a site-specific sign-in?
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I think a good chunk of the huge step down is when they made it US-only for licensing issues. I was an avid UK user until that time.
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He's also here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pierrefar
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by jedc 15y ago
Wow... it's been ages since I thought of UMTYMP. I went through two years of UMTYMP, and it was the most amazing program. In those two years we covered four years of high school math. It taught me math quick, and also how to work hard. A
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Google's response to Mocality (Kenya): We were mortified to learn...(plus.google.com)
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Ask HN: Wakemate is dead?
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by jedc 15y ago
I specifically got the Kindle DX for manuals and other tech books, and it's been awesome. And approximately the same size/weight as an iPad...
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by jedc 15y ago
But then Google has a very active engineering team, the Data Liberation Front, whose goal is: "[...] to make it easier to move data in and out." http://www.dataliberation.org/ These are the products you can easily export: AdWords, Alerts
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And here I was just thinking Quantas had found the island from Lost...
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by jedc 15y ago
Foursquare is slowly evolving to the point where it serves users as a recommendation app (exploring places to go near to your locations), tips for what to do/eat/drink when you're there, and some good deals/offers to seal the deal. The game
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This. I think their landing page should de-emphasize use cases like printing Foursquare checkins from your friends (who really needs to know where their friends were?) and emphasize this. I would love to leave for work each morning grabbin
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by jedc 15y ago
IIRC, Google only hired Charlie Ayers when they moved out of downtown Palo Alto to suburban Mountain View. Perhaps the free food phenomenon might have never happened if Google had moved to SFO instead?
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by jedc 15y ago
I would guess that this might eventually tie into Google Wallet in some way. Perhaps it's essentially the loyalty card part of Wallet just re-packaged until more businesses deploy the new machines at registers?
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by jedc 15y ago
According to the app description in Android market: "Currently only working at specific locations: San Francisco, Portland, Austin, San Luis Obispo, Fullerton and San Diego."
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Punchd - A Loyalty Program (from Google)(getpunchd.com)
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Great work! How much of your work is "responsive web design"?
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Interesting... I wonder if this makes Google App Engine more appropriate for internal apps for Google Apps customers? For quick/easy personal hacking/development having a Python stack on Heroku seems pretty attractive now.
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It's discussed in the article, but I would recommend reading "Don't Roll the Dice" which is a free e-book on software pricing by Neil Davidson: http://www.neildavidson.com/dontjustrollthedice.html (Neil is CEO of Red Gate Software and co-

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