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by jon_dahl 14y ago
The biggest problem with conspiracy theories is the cover-up. I don't deny that governments are capable of lying and doing terrible things (cf. early CIA). But I can't accept the idea that a massive conspiracy would stay secret. Any of the
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by jon_dahl 14y ago
Other than Facebook and Zynga stock prices, is there other evidence that a bubble has popped? I haven't seen signs of funding or liquidity drying up. Valuing Facebook at $50 billion rather than $100 billion could be the sign of a massive sl
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Zencoder works on hard, interesting problems. Hiring engineers - join us in SF.(zencoder.com)
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by jon_dahl 14y ago
Wow, the case is really weak. And I don't even like Malcolm Gladwell. In 2007, Gladwell took up the financial industry’s cause. He argued that Enron’s investors were to blame for their losses, rather than accounting fraud, which he dismiss
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by jon_dahl 14y ago
Hi Steve - we have express plans to _not_ shut down or make you go back to a homebrew setup. This isn't an aqui-hire; Brightcove is getting into the encoding API market. Hope to work with you for many years to come.
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by jon_dahl 14y ago
Hi DMV - we ran the transcoding tests a few times, but transcoding performance is pretty steady across multiple runs (here and elsewhere). Network obviously isn't; the numbers here include about a dozen test runs. We should make that more c
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by jon_dahl 14y ago
This is a tangent, but Dalton is actually a really charismatic speaker. He was probably the favorite speaker of my YC class, and was reportedly great at Startup School a few years ago (though I wasn't there). Must come off better in person.
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The Zencoder guide to closed captioning for web, mobile, and connected TV(blog.zencoder.com)
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Amateur project to send rockets into space(kickstarter.com)
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Selling to developers is neither B2B nor B2C(blog.zencoder.com)
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by jon_dahl 14y ago
You're ultimately right, though future EBITDA (or future dividends) is more interesting than current EBITDA. Otherwise a pre-launch startup with no revenue and interesting technology would be worth $0, and a declining company with $1B of EB
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by jon_dahl 14y ago
"How about if I add 'not' to make it a true statement?" She accepted this. So I had my appointment. That is an elegant solution to the problem.
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Office Manager is one of the most important jobs at a growing startup (SoMa)(zencoder.com)
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by jon_dahl 15y ago
I'm with DarkShikari - this is a great article. Hiring is one of the most important things for any company, at any stage, that it is worth doing right. If interviewing 100 people instead of 50 will increase overall talent, it's worth bendin
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Zencoder is looking for a Sales Engineer who understands video(jobscore.com)
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Understand x264, TS, and B-frames? Zencoder is hiring video experts.(zencoder.com)
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by jon_dahl 15y ago
Here is where Zencoder was born: http://yfrog.com/09x7fsj . We went a little outside of the Mountain View area and got a house in the Santa Cruz mountains. It was great. Three desks, three computers, three bedrooms, a nice kitchen, and a h
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25 Suspected Hackers Arrested in International Raids(nytimes.com)
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Zencoder is looking for Video Encoding Specialists(zencoder.jobscore.com)
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Patterns for High Volume Video Encoding in 2012(blog.zencoder.com)
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by jon_dahl 15y ago
Exactly. Other things that can wreck your body: running, weight lifting, competitive sports, and failing to do any of these things.
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by jon_dahl 15y ago
Tiny, but the payoff is often bigger. :)
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by jon_dahl 15y ago
Eventually, every business wants to make profits. That's kind of the point of Business. The question is when. If you're a startup, you can: A) Aim at near-term profitability (say, 12 month horizon) by keeping expenses low and focusing on re
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Zencoder releases the cloud’s most efficient HTTP Live Streaming(blog.zencoder.com)
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by jon_dahl 15y ago
Hi 9999 - get in touch if you want to go into more detail: http://zencoder.com/contact . As a short answer, though, we're actually quite cheap for most customers. Major internet publishers use Zencoder for a few hundred dollars/month. Larg
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by jon_dahl 15y ago
> probably biased Thanks for the trust. ;)
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by jon_dahl 15y ago
This assumes that you can evenly distribute your transcoding load over the course of a month. For most customers, transcoding needs are severely peaky - 10x or more from peak-to-average. So you either buy for the peaks and your hardware goe
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by jon_dahl 15y ago
Our business isn't professional encoding vs. [unprofessional encoding?]. It's cloud vs. non-cloud. We do what the "professional" non-cloud tools do, but in the cloud, and we have many customers who are investing more than $6,000. (We're als
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How Zencoder became the largest transcoding service on the market(blog.zencoder.com)
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by jon_dahl 15y ago
All one needs to do is put a vacation autoresponder on their email account, and then have the self-control to not read email while they're out. Dave's problem isn't self-control while on vacation. It's the mountain of email he'll have whe

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