kn0thing

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by kn0thing 15y ago
I'm gonna talk to GA about it. Or just start my own public house in NY for it ;)
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by kn0thing 15y ago
Practice. Practice. Practice. I've become a pretty good public speaker because of simply that. I absolutely adore this concept. No slides. Just a jam about something you love.
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I'm matching $10K worth of DonorsChoose.org donations (code: breadpig)(startingpoint.blogs.cnn.com)
6 points by kn0thing 15y ago|0 comments
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by kn0thing 15y ago
I was on CNN here from SXSW to announce joining the advisory council of DonorsChoose.org but also to celebrate it with a $10K donation that will match anyone who uses the 'breadpig' code at checkout. I've been so impressed by their fight to
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by kn0thing 15y ago
reddit has always been an unconventional company, we're betting an engineer (with strong understanding of community) will do just fine.
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by kn0thing 15y ago
FYI, a breadpig is already taken.
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by kn0thing 15y ago
I'm curious to know what you think, Hacker News.
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Quarterly: Get physical mail from influential contributors(quarterly.co)
6 points by kn0thing 15y ago|1 comments
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by kn0thing 15y ago
By consistency, I mean even after Steve & I left, the team continued to maintain the course and endured a lot of ups and downs in the process. What they've done is really impressive.
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by kn0thing 15y ago
NP! However, diggv4 provided a big boost. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3580800
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by kn0thing 15y ago
Wirklich?! Because I'm Armenian?
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by kn0thing 15y ago
Thank you.
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by kn0thing 15y ago
Consistency. The power of user-created subreddits took years to really gain momentum. For the first year or so I was spending a lot of my time raising awareness for communities we'd created that seemed like obvious fits (like /r/gaming) doi
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by kn0thing 15y ago
Haha! Never thought of that. It's just because Steve and I were 21-year-olds without much design talent. I still hate myself for picking Verdana.... http://www.flickr.com/photos/33809408@N00/315073292/in/photo...
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by kn0thing 15y ago
Ah, that's definitely not a market we'll be hitting anytime soon. I say go for it. Take the best lessons from reddit and make something Azeris want.
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by kn0thing 15y ago
My post from above pretty much sums up how reddit succeeded as far as I can tell: http://alexisohanian.com/how-reddit-became-reddit-the-smalle... The ridiculously low registration barrier is something PG has preached to all YC startups. I
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by kn0thing 15y ago
I've always wanted to see reddit do more internationally. I've traveled quite a bit and met plenty of redditors who've shared the desire for a better internationalized site to replace the out-dated forum technology most of their fellow coun
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by kn0thing 15y ago
One of the reasons I was so excited to help Steve & Adam launch hipmunk.com was that it was a totally anti-social website. If I could run all the marketing/pr/community-etc stuff and achieve a similar result with a site that was devoid
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by kn0thing 15y ago
http://alexisohanian.com/an-open-letter-to-kevin-rose Oh yes, I got flamed by Arrington for predicting it, but diggv4 had to have been some VCs getting hungry for a return they'd expected before the fickle market turned. http://techcrunc
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by kn0thing 15y ago
Starting reddit back in 2005 certainly had disadvantages compared to today (for instance, launching hipmunk in 2010 was a dream for me compared to reddit because there are so many more people online and sharing: twitter didn't exist, facebo
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by kn0thing 15y ago
"The sale turbo charged user adoption" That's simply not true. Traffic continued to grow rather steadily after the acquisition, largely because Conde wisely didn't interfere very much, but it certainly didn't 'turbo charge' it. We were luck
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by kn0thing 15y ago
I agree with this and have said so on a number of occasions, but it's not very useful advice ;)
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by kn0thing 15y ago
If you want to know what the non-technical co-founder did those first couple of weeks, it was a lot of submissions under a dozen or so usernames. Fortunately, Steve & I only had to do that for a few weeks. The first bump we got in traff
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Lobbying 2.0(nytimes.com)
10 points by kn0thing 15y ago|0 comments
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by kn0thing 15y ago
Very excited to see our comrades with better burritos in solidarity -- and so quickly!
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by kn0thing 15y ago
Yes, there is already media interest brewing.
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by kn0thing 15y ago
Success! A new protest has arrived! http://www.hackersandfounders.com/events/48317262/?eventId=4... PIPA-supporting Senators, meet the job-creators and innovators of California.
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Nearly 1000 of NY Tech protesting Senators on PIPA this Wed - join us, Valley(plus.google.com)
202 points by kn0thing 15y ago|10 comments
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by kn0thing 15y ago
Hehe. You and me both. I woke up realizing how much I enjoy mediamatters for calling out this stuff after the fact, while also realizing how little it matters when it's that late. Should I get the chance again, I'm going to be ready for wha
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by kn0thing 15y ago
Thank you. While I've encountered the lies online, it's another kind of shocking when it's to your face, with cameras rolling. I learned a valuable lesson, albeit a depressing one -- I'll be ready the next time. Granted, I'd much rather be

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