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by johnrob 14y ago
Standups would make more sense if the team did not communicate during the day. The reason I think they are pointless is that when a blocking issue arises, you drop what you're doing and walk straight over to the person who can help you. I
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by johnrob 14y ago
All told, you can only seem so impressive on a stage. Nothing impresses me more than when a non technical/startupy friend or relative casually mentions a new product.
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by johnrob 14y ago
I don't think any of your examples would have looked impressive just based on the idea. In all of those cases, the wild growth is what made the company a big story. Tell the world that your startup will deliver burgers, and nobody will car
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by johnrob 14y ago
Yahoo should not be surprised when future prospective employees would rather work at or found a startup.
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I've been looking for the right place to ask for this very thing. There's no savvier investor than YC itself, and they allocate their money in a very specific and consistent manner: equally across all startups in a batch. Full coverage is
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by johnrob 14y ago
I think there is a precedent here: deflation, which is the classical way of describing a currency whose spending power is increasing. I'm not well versed in the history of currencies, but that's one place I'd investigate to see how the "bu
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by johnrob 14y ago
I don't see proof of anything. What information are you referring to?
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This might be by design. I think all investors probably realize the legal ramifications. The net effect of this could be to sniff out the ones who don't make good on their handshakes, since the ones who do probably won't mind putting term
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by johnrob 14y ago
I think the startup world already does this well enough to negate any need for parody.
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If you owe Joe money, he might accept bitcoins because he knows he can use them (minus a fee) at sites like bitspend.
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by johnrob 14y ago
This is likely to solicit questions about whether purchases can be anonymous. However, I don't think that matters. As long as an average Joe (who doesn't care about anonymity) can use this to spend bitcoins, the overall acceptance of the
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by johnrob 14y ago
Scary thought: the U.S. is actually going to have to compete going forward. We've leveraged our natural resources for a long time, but we just can't get much more growth out of them.
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by johnrob 14y ago
typo: "It was their number one priority; the put it up on their desks, on their refrigerator, and on the mirror in their bathroom"
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So the key to meeting your short term goals is... blow them off and focus on the long term goals. Doesn't make sense to me.
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by johnrob 14y ago
Right now, Web Developer Toolbar lets me live edit HTML in the browser. I'd like the same feature, but instead of editing in the browser, I want to edit the actual html file. So, this would be some sort of "live edit mode" where open a ur
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by johnrob 14y ago
I hope companies of the future will at least offer working space as a perk. I am much less productive at home with my pets around, and I can't imagine what it will be like once I have children. In my experience, offices are a painful place
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by johnrob 14y ago
Shopping is hard in general, but especially so when the list gets bigger. You end up making more circles through the store and it's hard for the human brain to validate that the 20 things in my cart are the same as the 20 items in the list
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by johnrob 14y ago
That is a rare case of correctly understanding the user but incorrectly understanding the technology (most errors are the opposite). That laziness drives behavior was correct, but that calling is easier than texting was incorrect.
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by johnrob 14y ago
The OP's point is that the major benefits of accelerators don't always align with the needs of a given company. It's probably a fair point - Demo Day happens on Demo Day, not on the one day that happens to be ideal for all the companies.
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by johnrob 14y ago
Ask how long it will take them to actually get you your stock certificate, should you accept. Doing anything stock related with a startup is can of worms - things always get delayed due to board meetings, valuations, fund raising, etc. Th
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by johnrob 14y ago
A few issues: 1) Will implementing these features actually increase profit? This was never addressed. 2) Restaurant revenue does not grow exponentially into the sky like many internet businesses do. There are hard limits on growth. Thus t
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Aha - thanks, I didn't realize how recent the request was.
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by johnrob 14y ago
Out of pure curiosity, why is it that the OP's original requests for help were ignored? Is it recommended that to get better support you should make a public case of it? A lot of larger companies seem to operate this way.
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by johnrob 14y ago
Your math/point-of-view is intuitive and quite common. However, startups are a game of large multipliers. At any given stage, you're always pushing to be 10X of where you are now. Your long term goal is probably to be 1000X more valuable
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by johnrob 14y ago
Over time, we'd discover that this sandboxing platform is more useful for running server processes on co-located tablets.
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by johnrob 14y ago
I agree with Dave's conclusion, but my rational is different: the trend towards enterprise is precisely what will open up the consumer space. It's the same force that has left enterprise relatively uncrowded in recent years.
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Any project that lasts longer than a few months inevitably encounters some form of duplication from elsewhere. There should be a Metcalfe-esque law for that.
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This would probably be best for a focused sprint to build the first (or next) iteration of a product. You need to be back in real life to interact with users and pivot the idea if necessary.
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Downtime is inevitable for most companies. The only question is how much work you want to put in to achieve the standard up time.
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by johnrob 14y ago
The author still thinks that you need to pack it up and go somewhere to succeed. That message sidesteps the real debate: whether you can "stay home" with your startup. Most people that are willing to move end up in Silicon Valley.

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