johnrob

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by johnrob 17y ago
I agree there aren't as many girls here, although people on this site have argued vehemently against that conclusion (I choose to believe my own eyes, so I don't care what they say). The problem with weekend trips is that at best you end u
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by johnrob 17y ago
I think I prefer "make something at least someone loves". That's more accurate because if 1 or more users love your product, you can get to 40% by getting rid of enough users who don't love it.
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by johnrob 17y ago
Interesting how javascript is turning source code theft into copyright infringement (a civil matter), when traditionally it would be trade secret theft (a criminal matter).
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by johnrob 17y ago
"What is your greatest weakness?" Here's a good answer: "That I'm not independently wealthy. It also happens to be the reason you're interviewing me."
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by johnrob 17y ago
If anyone has an idea for how they will make money, they are keeping them to themselves. I haven't heard of a single plausible idea.
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by johnrob 17y ago
If you assume that people are sleeping 8 hours per night, that number becomes 1/333.
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by johnrob 17y ago
The typical startup that's struggling to find some sort of product/market fit would happily inherit the problems mentioned here. I don't think the lean startup model is supposed to be a smooth sail to success. It's just an efficient metho
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by johnrob 17y ago
I'll throw in some more advice: if you're going to start a company w/o a technical person, pick an idea that allows you to pre-sell. Enterprise applications are a good, because it's not uncommon to get commitments from buyers before the p
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by johnrob 17y ago
Companies that seem to be 'slacking' probably just haven't achieved product-market fit yet. If a company has achieved this, and is growing like a weed, I doubt the employees will be 'coasting'. Greed will take care of that. So, I'd be wil
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by johnrob 17y ago
This was a good quote: "All you can do after a failure is get up and try again. If you keep doing that, one of two things will happen -- either you will succeed eventually, or you will die. And if you die, then you won't care anymore."
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by johnrob 17y ago
There are no transaction fees?
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by johnrob 17y ago
What is an IPSP?
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by johnrob 17y ago
"Project Management Methodology News The Top User-Ranked Technology Stories Updated Every 15 Minutes" Project Management Methodology != Technology. The title and tag line need to be consistent.
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by johnrob 17y ago
Steve Blank's "accelerator" view of VC financing begs this question: why not raise debt instead of equity? Any banker will agree that equity is the worst way to raise funds. It's a fair deal if the investor is taking a risk. But if you r
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by johnrob 17y ago
"The company was worth about $5 billion in 2000, just before Jobs unleashed Apple's groundbreaking "digital lifestyle" strategy, understood at the time by few critics. Today, at about $170 billion, Apple is slightly more valuable than Googl
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by johnrob 17y ago
I think your statement might be self-contradictory. If having more users (by itself) can bias a new user, then the product being sold has a network-effect. EDIT: I think the term I (and we) are looking for is positive feedback loop. That
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by johnrob 17y ago
In 45 minutes there's not enough time to see how good the candidate is. Your goal should really be the opposite - to make sure the candidate is not obviously bad. I always come into the interview with a list of simple programming tasks, a
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by johnrob 17y ago
Here's how to get access to the head (took some googling and tinkering): 1) Put editor in advanced mode by clicking on red arrow on top right (you have to be in advanced mode to override a variable) 2) Click 'Variables' link (now it is poss
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by johnrob 17y ago
"Operating systems aren’t mere components like RAM or CPUs; they’re the single most important part of the computing experience" I think this is rapidly becoming less true with the increasing utility of the browser + web. These days, what I
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by johnrob 17y ago
You're assuming that the financing partner is taking a salary, which he probably would not do. Thus there's no need to factor in that virtual 100K investment.
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Online Art Store gets funded - Artix 2.0!(techcrunch.com)
7 points by johnrob 17y ago|0 comments
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by johnrob 17y ago
Anyone who pays to pitch is so far off the map, does it even matter what they do?
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by johnrob 17y ago
In econ terms: optimize for expected utility, not for expected return.
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Mongo DB - scalable document-oriented DBMS(mongodb.org)
2 points by johnrob 17y ago|0 comments
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by johnrob 17y ago
I think google can be a bad example when making design considerations, because they provide the simplest product on the internet: type in some words, get back a page of links. They don't need any design, they just need to pick the right li
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by johnrob 17y ago
Forget redirecting traffic - just put an invisible pixel on your site that hits the competitor. Imagine if google did this... they could kill any site!
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by johnrob 17y ago
I generally take a middle road - I write code that is unit-testable, but I rarely take the time to write exhaustive tests. When bugs arise, I start writing test cases in various components until I find them. Thus, the debugging effort is
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Talented young surfer with Asperger Syndrome(outside.away.com)
1 points by johnrob 17y ago|0 comments
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by johnrob 17y ago
How about a way to get an email alert whenever someone replies to one of your comments on hacker news?
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by johnrob 17y ago
Large companies probably worry about the risk of people changing. Three people working in a startup might change once they are cashed out and part of a large company. Since buying a small startup is basically a purchase of people, this ca

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