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by kunle 14y ago
>Elon is awesome, but the founders of NASA contracting companies, intel, car companies, etc didn't reach bill gates levels of wealth This might be true. But Elon stands to be the first private citizen with a chance to reach the moon or
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by kunle 14y ago
>First of all it is not at all certain that the integrated approach is winning for smart phones. In fact depending on what definition of winning one uses, it can be easily said that the integrated approach is losing. There are more andr
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by kunle 14y ago
Not claiming that iOS support for HTML5 is bad, just that I find it hard to believe that Apple will ever invest as much in HTMl5 as it does in native, and by extension, that Apple will ever make sure HTML5 is at feature parity to native. At
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by kunle 14y ago
One tough thing for HTML5 is that the platforms that the community want to write for (iOS & Android) have no intrinsic incentive to actually support it (other than lip service). A world where HTML5 is dominant for the most profitable ti
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Why Highly Intelligent People Fail At The Most Important Things In Life(businessinsider.com)
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Comcast crushes porn owner’s “shakedown” of subscribers(paidcontent.org)
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by kunle 14y ago
Spot on post. So many times when talking to seasoned/experienced founders, this comes up as the thing that most founders (seasoned or first timers) get wrong. To quote Max Levchin (on #2): "When there's a doubt, there is no doubt."
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The Tragedy of Wiio's Law (or communication usually fails, except by accident)(ribbonfarm.com)
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by kunle 14y ago
Error on my part. Apologies.
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by kunle 14y ago
Apologies for this. Now fixed.
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Show HN: Nowmaid for iPhone - tap a button, get a maid.(nowmaid.com)
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by kunle 14y ago
> I think the problem is rooted in the business model that seems to be preached by Y Combinator: build a great product, choose investment over income, and exit as quickly as possible. This isn't the model preached by YCombinator at all.
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by kunle 14y ago
> Rather, it's that these interviews really, truly are an accurate description of what was going on in their head during the game. It's our fault for expecting a compelling narrative. Our expectation of divining some deep insight into t
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by kunle 14y ago
$16bn says they wont be collapsing anytime soon. . . .
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by kunle 14y ago
> "China was given a direct line around Wall Street to buy Treasuries directly from the USG" This isn't particularly surprising - several large "real money" investors (pensions and the like) have had this sort of relationship with the
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by kunle 14y ago
For something so easy to duplicate (40m users) I see frighteningly few duplications (photo services with 40m users after 18 months.). Making a camera app that has filters is easy to duplicate. Aggregating an audience of 40m users on no adve
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by kunle 15y ago
Not at all off-topic. Its spot on, and entirely relevant in this context. In general pretty fun to read something that captures something so fundamental. Wish there were more folks like joe peacock to say those words to the awkward 14 - 16
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Why should ebooks cost $15?(pakman.com)
3 points by kunle 15y ago|0 comments
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Can Two Young Entrepreneurs Disrupt A Market And Solve The High Cost Of Hearing?(techcrunch.com)
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by kunle 15y ago
"At about that time I decided to keep my mouth shut, after all that is what they wanted, someone who would keep quiet." This is when you KNOW you're in the wrong place. Definitely not the bitterness of someone whose been laid off. Any found
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An app that sends kisses(online.wsj.com)
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99Dresses Emerges as Hottest Startup at Y Combinator Winter 2012(marketwatch.com)
4 points by kunle 15y ago|1 comments
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by kunle 15y ago
@DavidZhangToGo - out of curiousity, what exactly does Simply.io do? [EDIT]: This isn't meant to read as a snarky comment - I am truly curious.
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Y Combinator Keeps Growing and Growing (portfolio.com)
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Amazon’s cloud computing used to operate Nasa robots on the surface of Mars(ft.com)
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by kunle 15y ago
You're right about starcraft - it's a well designed game constructed explicitly around the keyboard/mouse paradigm. Fortunately it's not the only type of game - if you look at the list of best selling video games, they all have a variety of
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by kunle 15y ago
(Disclosure- i"m a founder of WanderPlayer) I think control quality depends on the game and on the design. WanderPlayer's a first step and is an experience grafted onto existing games, but we're working on games built specifically on what
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by kunle 15y ago
For what games?
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by kunle 15y ago
I question BofA's business practices and relationship with the government as much as the next guy, but this: "a huge portfolio of dangerous bets into a side of the company that happens to be FDIC-insured, putting all of us on the hook for a
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by kunle 15y ago
would love an intro (ayo@flypadapp.com)

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