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by josh2600 13y ago
No, it's a great one. Feel free :). I don't think it made a good impression on me, but it was definitely memorable.
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by josh2600 13y ago
Quick story that I promise is actually relevant. When I was watching Kevin Systrom speak about Instagram at the Castro Theater with Kevin Rose back in May, I distinctly remember one particular question. KR was reading a question from the au
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by josh2600 13y ago
I'm hopeful this will mean real reform, but if the previous years of Obama's presidency are indicative of the future, it's unlikely this represents material change. Then again, if we all believed the pass foretold the future
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by josh2600 13y ago
Frankly it was financially motivated. It was a lot cheaper to consolidate resources with the county. The happy consequence of community development was not, I assume, planned.
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by josh2600 13y ago
I have an experience to relate about the small town I grew up in (Bay Area). While I was a youngster I had numerous run ins with the local cops. Nothing serious, but I remember feeling mistreated, literally manhandled by the officers to thi
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by josh2600 13y ago
Yes, you're correct on the definition. I don't wanna go look it up but there's a good one about an embedded attack hidden in an internal PCI board's on board memory. If someone with $100M wants to get you, they're p
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by josh2600 13y ago
Virtualization solves a lot of these problems, but a lot of my milspec friends have been expressing concerns about APTs that jailbreak the virtual environment to attack the underlying physical host. It will be interesting to see how the hum
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by josh2600 13y ago
I'm definitely not advising you to memorize everyone you meet. Most companies tend to hold real allegiance to a small handful of customers. Get to know your key stakeholders. If you have a component supplier that makes up 30% of your b
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by josh2600 13y ago
Don't forget: All else being equal, Walmart takes a profit. That's why I'm bullish on Amazon from an economic perspective. Culturally, I often wonder about the consumer value of monopolized markets.
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by josh2600 13y ago
In what market? In cloud infrastructure I think it's safe to say Walmart is actually the smaller contender. Over time cloud infrastructure could subsume all of retail, at least in theory. If that's the case wouldn't you rathe
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by josh2600 13y ago
Cool article, but I think the magic profitability button analogy ignores the underlying economic thesis of Amazon. Right now, the only obstacle to Amazon's profitability is Walmart. If Walmart didn't exist, Amazon's pricing c
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by josh2600 13y ago
Echoing the comment below me because it's great advice. How do you know your friends birthdays? You either ask or you look it up on Facebook. How many times have you added a client on Facebook? Seems weird right? If you did add a clien
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by josh2600 13y ago
I think a card for the kids or a quick email is more what I had in mind. We've received a box of twizzlers in the past. We don't eat twizzlers but it was a nice sentiment.
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by josh2600 13y ago
Great blog post, lots of great information. A few tips and tricks from my practical experience: * Big companies still have cultures. If you understand how the culture works, it's easier to get things done. In the best enterprises, you
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by josh2600 13y ago
I would strongly recommend reading everything on that blog and then, if you wanna go deeper, dive into marketo's blog posts as well.
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by josh2600 13y ago
I always bet on Intercall when it comes to audioconferencing consolidation. The real question is: Who's gonna get more spam, The old Acme Packet customers who are now getting spammed by Oracle or the soon-to-be-potentially-sold FreeCon
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by josh2600 13y ago
Just wanted to chime in: free plans are for venture businesses that benefit from network affinity (the classic example being dropbox). I'd also like to note two things: 1) if you want to charge more, tell a better story 2) if you want
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by josh2600 13y ago
We <3 Erlang. Lots of startups use it including what's app, Goldman Sachs and even the big FB. Erlang was basically built for telecom so it made sense for us to build kazoo on top. Keep your eyes open over the next 60 days, we'
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by josh2600 13y ago
International calling card services are cheap to implement. The main issue people run into is fraud. I think that after DNS reflection, SIP attacks have to be one of the most common assaults. In addition, I've never seen a prepaid call
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by josh2600 13y ago
Not much more to say. At one point it was much cheaper to proxy media to Canada and back into the US than it was to route it straight state to state. It has to do with treaties and international tariffs versus state to state. When you hit a
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by josh2600 13y ago
Very hard for me to tell. The nomenclature suggests use of the SpeeX codec, but I can't tell. These companies break down into a few broad categories: 1) it's new technology (this is the holy shit category) 2) it's cheaper (IM
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by josh2600 13y ago
You have no idea. When I first came in it was a common practice to bounce calls up to Canada because the intercountry rate was better than interstate.
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by josh2600 13y ago
A quick note on how the conference calling industry actually works... 1) Most BIG conference calling companies are registered as competitive local exchange carriers. 2) As CLECs, these companies get to charge for inbound traffic. 3) Charge
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by josh2600 13y ago
Everybody has volume discounts; Twilio is nice and scalable and their rates aren't bad at all. Putting my marketing hat on, I'd strongly suggest Patio11's blog on inbound marketing. He's really good and the points he mak
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by josh2600 13y ago
Quick question: Do you have some kind of monitoring setup on HackerNews for the keywords "Free Plan" or "Free Trial" or are you just that active? You always get to these topics so quickly. Thanks for chiming in!! :) I al
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by josh2600 13y ago
It depends on the business. $MAJORWIRELESSOPERATOR on accessory sales has obscene margins (like 1000%). Things like minutes are skinny with gross margins of 60-100%. There are costs so if you're playing the LCR game you're likely
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by josh2600 13y ago
Telecom geek here: why do you have low margins? Where are you buying your DIDs and Routes? What switch are you using? I'd love to help, I literally eat sleep and breathe this stuff. There's no way your margins should be skinny unl
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by josh2600 13y ago
This is a risk evaluation failure. When you join a startup, when you think of startup statistics, you should think that the company you're joining has a 90% chance of failing and returning less than $0 (ergo wasting your time in additi
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by josh2600 13y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but I always thought the point of using SMS was to avoid using the same data channel for transmission, kind of like having Fiber with a backup DSL/Cable line for a small business. This innovation sounds awesome, b
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by josh2600 13y ago
How does this mesh with his investment in Business Insider? Is Jeff pursuing a content strategy? Washington Post for investigation and Business Insider for Biz news would be great. Personally I'd rather have Jeff Bezos than Rupert Murd

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