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by kaa2102 13y ago
Exception or the rule?
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What if we tried to mirror the evolutionary process by starting with an objective like survive, reproduce, etc?
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Beware the trademark trolls.
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by kaa2102 13y ago
In a way, this speaks to the concept of journalism in an echo chamber and being fooled by randomness. Ultimately, people (including journalists) are bad at prediction. The "accessible" founders that get noticed first get the press
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by kaa2102 13y ago
I met Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian at a book signing recently. Alexis mentioned that Digg was all the rage in the press when Reddit was on the rise. I understand you saying that this company has a small audience, bad timing, and an insuf
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by kaa2102 13y ago
This makes me wonder what social network analysis for VCs and start ups would look like. It sounds like this model ensures that the well-connected founders get funded despite the merits of their ideas & implementation efforts.
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by kaa2102 13y ago
This is creative. I just had a friend that moved to the DC -area from San Francisco. She works for the Federal Government and mentioned that she felt out of place in San Fran because nearly every one is working on a start up. This post make
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by kaa2102 13y ago
I remember starting a company several years ago focused on using advanced analytics to improve personal decision-making. This idea morphed over time to a specific use: budgeting. Visualization and making the process quick and super easy are
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by kaa2102 13y ago
It seems like economic growth is the only variable being optimized in an uncertain world with many other important objectives and constraints. We could seek to maximize the median income of citizens, happiness, life expectancy, or many othe
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by kaa2102 13y ago
How about: "An army of robot CEOs could continuously maximize shareholder value?"
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Ted Talks Are Lying to You(salon.com)
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by kaa2102 13y ago
Want press? Leverage your relationships with the press and tech bloggers. Sounds fantastic; but, what if you don't have any relationships with the press?
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by kaa2102 13y ago
I hear you. My mother enforced a minimum GPA for sports participation. I took mostly Honors and AP courses. I had a C midyear on my report card in a math course and my parents told me there would be no more sports until I had only As and Bs
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by kaa2102 13y ago
You made an excellent counterpoint. The improvements in performance were not solely due to dropping sports programs. It may be difficult to tease out the impact that each of the major changes had on performance. I did participate extensivel
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by kaa2102 13y ago
Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not yet seen. Even scientific inquiry requires at least a scintilla of faith. One forms a hypothesis with the hopes (but not the certainty) of finding something meaningfu
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Larry Summers Withdraws from Fed Consideration [pdf](online.wsj.com)
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I don't think entrepreneurs should be lazy or blind to risk; rather, they should use strategy, options and flexible arrangements to eliminate, minimize, or transfer risk. Big companies didn't want to handle fraud for online paymen
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by kaa2102 13y ago
Economic models would show that low wage jobs are such due to lack of specialization and supply/demand for that job. Nonetheless, articles like this make "the Economy" sound more and more like the Matrix. Do humans exist mere
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Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist(physics.ucsd.edu)
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A lot of people seem to be sold on the group of founders theory of start ups. Jeff Bezos hired programmers to develop Amazon. I would argue that start ups are not about exceptions or rules - it's about getting your product in the custo
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by kaa2102 13y ago
What if AI, automation, and the goal to maximize short-term profits leads to robots only making things for other robots?
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by kaa2102 13y ago
It seems like hackathons and other hacker conferences and events have successfully capitalized on the popularization of start up culture. It makes this* seem like one big fad. The deeper purposes of sharing, freedom, coding and solving prob
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Living Surveillance Free for a Day(nymag.com)
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America’s public finances: The Unsteady States of America(economist.com)
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by kaa2102 13y ago
I would not quit what you're doing just yet. You built a product and have a paying customer. Congrats! You mentioned that you don't understand your the needs of your customer. I think you can build on what you've already done
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by kaa2102 13y ago
I feel safer already. /sarcasm How can citizens reverse these sort of intrusive policies?
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by kaa2102 13y ago
Profit. It's far easier to cut costs, reduce taxes, and expand existing products/services into new markets than it is to conduct applied research and commercialize new products.
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Don't Blame the Work Force(nytimes.com)
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Fundraising is a Means Not an End - Steve Blank(steveblank.com)
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by kaa2102 13y ago
Data is data. The most important data is the the data that impacts the strategic objectives of your business or organization. There is zero value in boiling the ocean.

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