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by joez 17y ago
My team and I are exploring that possibility right now. We have come across a few interesting tidbits considering the model: A concern is that without a way to direct your crowd sourcing (centralized articles) people will be all over the pl
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by joez 17y ago
There is the possibility of analysis paralysis. In the extreme case where everyone had a Wiki page, an individual's name might return 100+ different results. I would have to say I am in the inclusionists camp though. If someone took the tim
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by joez 17y ago
Okay, I can see if from this perspective. The way I originally understood it was more from an aggregation of power into the hands of the consumer. By banding together they would be able to leverage a better rate. In that sense I would see t
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by joez 17y ago
That is nifty but I think Mint's model looks better on paper. They want to operate in the transaction/opportunity cost of switching financial services. Banks have transaction costs (marketing fees, referral fees to other institutions, brick
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by joez 17y ago
I think mint is having a hard time monetizing. I love their value proposition (i.e. costs BofA $300 to acquire a new mortgage customer, mint charges $150 referral while saving mint's user x from their previous mortgage) but I have never bee
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by joez 17y ago
The article neglects the networking aspects of getting an MBA. The connections you develop while getting an MBA is often described as the most valuable element. Paying a large sums is what is both right and wrong about an MBA. Networking i
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G.M. Sees eBay as a Way to Reach New Buyers(nytimes.com)
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by joez 17y ago
I like it but I have some concerns for you. How will you monetize? Freemium? How will you scale? It looks like you two are personally reading essays to approve/disapprove them but how will you scale if you're receiving 100 essays a day? To
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by joez 17y ago
They can't recognize that until it's shipped. They might have had deferred revenue in terms of warranty. They probably have to allocate a portion of each sale as warranty and recognize that revenue over the length of the warranty (similar t
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by joez 17y ago
Definitely! I'd love to see a big Tesla plant driving down 101. It does worry me that if he builds a large portion in house, does it then scale as well as say a Toyota? Is supply chain management somewhere in his background?
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by joez 17y ago
I'm not a GAAP Accounting whiz, but you need to book labor related expenses on the months they occur which much be a large portion of Tesla's expenses. You then can reach profitability by recognizing all sales in one month whereas if you sp
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by joez 17y ago
This just sounds like PR to me. If the production costs (labor, parts etc) happened over a lengthy period and then they recognized profit for 109 shipped cars in July... of course they have a profitable month in July. I'd want to examine th
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by joez 17y ago
What market are you guys trying to target? Enterprise? The workspace did not load for me on Chrome or IE7 from my corporate computer. (Blue bar loaded the whole way and then did not render any changes). I don't know if you guys are using an
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by joez 17y ago
See Netflix Culture: http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664 It's about doing the right thing. But this article is not about slashing salaries instead of laying people off. It's about the bush league moves of forcing people out
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by joez 17y ago
I'd like to offer a corollary, if you are an Asian man... lots of Asian girls are only looking for white men... thusly lowering your pool. But San Francisco's women are beautiful and amazing. There are few other cities that compare. You may
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by joez 17y ago
A few other suggestions: It is too chaotic but I can see you taking this in different directions. You need a way to direct the flow, potentially even in a useful direction (I am thinking Yahoo/Mahalo Answers), or just like a trending topics
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by joez 17y ago
Maybe have a minimap feature? In the right hand corner, or a way to jump to the activity? I scrolled around for a while before I found where all the action was. Or a search feature. I think the trending topic is penis right now.
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by joez 17y ago
I think we are coming from the same place but I am not sure I agree with "you should already be learning on your own and already "self actualized." I think the work place is one place of many where you can grow and prove yourself. It's a gr
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by joez 17y ago
Amazing read. Rang true some many times with me. I knew this was something special when it started out with an example of Enron's corporate values. Too many companies have corporate values printed on little cards, back of pamphlets or even
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by joez 17y ago
Even in a room full of game theorists, will the winner be at one. There are a few considerations. One is that one person who slips up either through a misunderstanding or spite will throw off the average. Another consideration is that if yo
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This week in startups: Live Entrepreneurship w/ Jason Calacanis(thisweekinstartups.com)
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by joez 17y ago
Yelp is a great example of how to reward users. They have multiple metrics for most prolific, from complements , to reviews, to friends to followers. There is yelp elite status which allows users to filter for just elite reviews and elites
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by joez 17y ago
This is a great point, but please don't apply because just for validation only to turn it down because you aren't ready to commit.
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by joez 17y ago
The same thing goes for a business plan. The act of writing the business plan is more important than the plan itself. Combine those two and hopefully you have new perspective on your product and positioning. My favorite questions include: W
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That is certainly a scenario but if your startup has stopped growing and you don't have plans for new features to change that then you are walking dead. Then, as you pointed out, you know you have entered a market too small.
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Depends on your market. I was recently at a talk from a Philip Morris executive who said the only way for the cigarette business to gain market share in its declining market was to win over consumers from competitors. Doesn't sound unethica
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"Your biggest fear should not be flaming out spectacularly, but rather creating a zombie that neither truly lives nor dies." I think the pitfall you are alluding to is hitting ramen profitability and then spending all day fire fighting rath
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by joez 17y ago
The education system is an attempt at creating equality for over a billion people. It's implemented by people for people so there will always be corruption. It's sad that there are no checks for when these things do happen. The media would
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A pretty nifty way to get original content
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The ad campaign does flow through well on radio. I heard this one the other day and I knew right away that it was a Dos Equis. "Most songs about love are written for him, about him, or by him. He'd never initiate a conversation about the we

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