jimboyoungblood

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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Are you suggesting that $400K is reasonable, and that it is because this person has the title of "CEO" and is located in the Bay Area? We are talking about someone who: 1) is leading a startup journalism non-profit. 2) has no prior experi
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
It's fear-mongering because the media is selective about what it gets huffy and indignant about. Where's the outrage over Google's behavioral retargeting? And have you ever tried to buy an ad on Facebook? The granularity with which you can
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Because the lawsuit was most likely inspired by this report by the WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870469400457602...
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
My AT&T iPhone has never failed to fail in San Francisco.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
What's hard to understand is why so many here feel entitled to that information. Don't you think there's at least a tiny chance that under the terms of the deal, they weren't allowed to disclose "We've been acquired by Salesforce" ?
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
is google believable too?
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
I've been using the PlainText iOS app, which integrates nicely with DropBox. This gives the flexibility to use any text editor you want. (I use TextMate)
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Not a fair comparison at all. Cupertino would easily win.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
No way. American Whites vs Chinese Whites is the only fair comparison.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Why don't you read the entire article first? The testing in Shanghai was carried out by an international contractor, working with Chinese authorities, and overseen by the Australian Council for Educational Research, a nonprofit testing gro
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Yes. I also have servers at that location, and in fact I did ask the ISP for a tour so I could see my rack during one of my recent visits to NYC.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
There are many places where there are large tech companies but few startups. That's because the people who quit to do startups go to the Bay Area, which has a lot more to offer little companies. For instance, there are a lot of ex-Amazon
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
I think you have it backwards.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Yup, definitely.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
.. or a poorly disguised press release for Path.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
His team: "Me, myself, and I"
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
As an angel investor, does that mean I can start funding companies with badges instead of money?
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
How much do you think DDG makes?
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Why don't you apply to some other accelerators and/or try to raise money from angels? YC's not the only game in town.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
So he is supposed to chuck all his hard work and walk away? This "company" has no actual assets of any sort (users, contracts, relationships, press, brand recognition, ...), except for the code, which his co-founder does have a legitima
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To all the techies at Demo Day at The Summit(sfbay.craigslist.org)
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
The original post is a rebuttal to this: http://www.idsgn.org/posts/gap-turns-to-crowdsourcing/
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
To be fair to the music labels, they at least have copyright law on their side. This is more like how professional journalists whine about bloggers.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Not a "knee-jerk reaction"- the 37s post was written two weeks ago..
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
AngelList has about as much in common with AngelGate as it does the Hells Angels. AngelList is the single most democratizing, pro-competitive thing that has happened to tech startup investing in a long time. (Disclaimer: i'm one of the ange
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Raising 1MM seems fairly trivial these days in the valley.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
The standard rationale for doing a note is that they're simpler and therefore cheaper to do, which in theory helps both founders and investors (unless anyone thinks its a good idea to blow startup capital on lawyers). This article was prett
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
There was another idea that came out of the Maxcubator at the same time as Slide, can't remember what it was Maybe you're thinking of Yelp.
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
hotornot solved the problem by moderating all photos before they were pushed to the general public. this approach obviously wouldn't work for CR. your suggestions are pretty good- i'd be somewhat surprised if these sorts of things weren't i
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by jimboyoungblood 16y ago
Since when does one need to be profitable in order to exit? :)

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