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by johnrob 15y ago
A sacrifice is worth it assuming it provides some benefit to the cause. I'm not sure if this action is going to have any effect (hopefully I'm wrong though).
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by johnrob 15y ago
As much as I support the anti SOPA cause, is this more of a hunger strike than a consequential action? The startups presenting at demo day need those dollars a whole lot more than the corporate venture arms need the investments. Money is
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by johnrob 15y ago
One phrase I associate with startups is "dumb enough to try". Startups usually have to break rules, and the most reliable way to pull that off is to not know you're breaking rules (i.e. youth). It's not a death sentence for older entrepren
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by johnrob 15y ago
One assumption being made here is that hiring is a critical task. It's entirely possible that a company can achieve its objectives without hiring; if that's the case then the argument doesn't apply.
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by johnrob 15y ago
The obvious (and fun) solution is to force these private equity markets to operate EXCLUSIVELY inside casinos. This would be the best way to get the masses to understand the realities of angel investing.
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by johnrob 15y ago
The trick is to use a prototyping-friendly paradigm, and mentally write it off as a research project.
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by johnrob 15y ago
One problem with OOP is that it's highly dependent on getting it right. If your design is correct, that's great, but otherwise you end up in increasingly hot water. The problem I have with OOP for new projects is that it's hard to see the
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by johnrob 15y ago
I think you need to replace "pick a problem" with "pick a good problem". The distinction between those two phrases is a big part of the start up game, IMO.
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by johnrob 15y ago
I can think of 6 frameworks: iOS, Android, WP7, Blackberry, Palm OS, Meego.
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by johnrob 15y ago
Ultimately, whoever writes the checks gets to decide what to strive for. If you can afford to hire a developer for each platform, great. Otherwise HTML5 is a compelling alternative.
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by johnrob 15y ago
I agree wholeheartedly with this concept. I previously used the term "instincts", but I think "judgement" is better. A solution is more than a technical implementation: it should address the actual requirements of the product as well as t
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by johnrob 15y ago
I doubt every ramen profitable startup founder is aware of this distinction, so it's still probably a point worth making.
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by johnrob 15y ago
I don't find it offputting; I think it's expected: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
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by johnrob 15y ago
What's also sad is that those very entrepreneurs are sometimes right (youtube, skype). It makes it harder to be critical of that strategy.
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by johnrob 15y ago
If people relied on data driven approaches, I don't think there would be any startups. The expected return of a startup is a massive time expenditure combined with very little cash reward.
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by johnrob 15y ago
Contracts aside, what is the normal expectation regrading how long founders & employees of the start up remain with the acquiring company?
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by johnrob 15y ago
Maybe I'm just not used to it, but I honestly find it harder to write code when I'm well dressed. I really don't know why this is the case. Perhaps my subconscious thinks I'm performing physical labor when I code, and thus being well dres
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by johnrob 15y ago
I bet a lot of companies would pay on behalf of their employees. That would be cheaper than chartering an entire shuttle.
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by johnrob 15y ago
There is probably a proof out there for why fewer lines of code is better; but everyone who believes it is too busy pumping out features to bother articulating it.
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by johnrob 15y ago
Is storage furniture the best niche for this? I wouldn't know, since I'm not in the market for that, but I don't think the pain of comparison shopping in that subset is particularly high (I could be wrong of course). Another slight foible
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by johnrob 15y ago
An open ended question I've wanted to ask for a while: when a startup (all of a sudden) needs to hire a bunch of engineers, what kind of things do those engineers work on? What requirements change so rapidly that doubling headcount becomes
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by johnrob 15y ago
Agreed, there could be more direct evidence. They are assuming that this correlation will hold true in most cities. Perhaps a less contested statement would be: "How Uber makes prostitution and alcohol better"...
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by johnrob 15y ago
Uber is able to decrease the average wait time by strategically placing cars wherever alcohol and prostitution are prevalent, thus making the service better.
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by johnrob 15y ago
This is a pretty good case against the notion that "ideas don't matter". They absolutely matter; how else can 3 days so drastically change the prospects of a company?
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by johnrob 15y ago
Why should a bonus be treated any differently than salary with respect to living expenses?
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by johnrob 15y ago
None of this matters, of course, on the mobile web... one of many reasons the web won on the desktop.
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Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla linked to closed beach(mercurynews.com)
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by johnrob 15y ago
It seems like you were a single founder in this one - what if anything allowed you to overcome the known difficulties of being a single founder?
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by johnrob 15y ago
This just showed up today (mailchimp buys tinyletter): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2947625 The single founder was Philip Kaplan (although he's not you're average single founder).
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by johnrob 15y ago
It would be great if someone started an incubator devoted to single founders, specifically tailoring the program to address some of the associated shortcomings. Perhaps it could also be a fertile ground to merge any compatible founders int

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