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by lien 15y ago
i would never buy groupon stock. this is a doomed biz model because it's not based on any real technology...the entire company is mostly comprised of only salespeople, which is pretty scary.
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by lien 15y ago
also, when you have a business model that's not based on any real technology or a strong user base, it's hard to compete long term. Groupon could win in the short term only.
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by lien 15y ago
Back when Google was bidding on Groupon, a friend of mine is a finance exec at Google and he said even at $6B, Google thought Groupon was overpriced.
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by lien 15y ago
I totally agree with you. i personally would never want to spend all of my time adding people on G+. Why does google want me to add people on G+ in such intrusive way? gimme a break!!
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by lien 15y ago
OMG...I would never notify the ex-boss. First of all, it's not your position to do charity work. Notifying the ex-boss is. Then, you're putting your coworker in an unfavorable position because you don't know that he's truly going to accept
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by lien 15y ago
well, arduino can only take you so far and is limited in where you could go. I've known arduino as a prototyping platform only and there's very little you can go after that. I'd start with the EVK because it has the temperature and light se
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by lien 15y ago
What do you want to build? It seems like you want to work with embedded systems. So there are two design considerations: wireless or non-wireless. dummy non-wireless things are that interesting, so i guess you're going to want to design a w
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I'm so confused about posterous' new UI.
6 points by lien 15y ago|1 comments
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by lien 15y ago
His doing a startup doesn't prevent you from doing it. An idea is just an idea - it's not a real product and it's not even a patent. There's a lot more to a startup than just an idea, and takes a lot of work. If you're passionate enough ab
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by lien 15y ago
I still think Wordpress is the best way to go. You can use Woothemes with Wordpress so it takes very little customization. It's got everything and a pretty comprehensive framework and you don't have to download any Wordpress plugins to get
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by lien 15y ago
wow! this is really cool! I have to test it out some more - does it come with all of the social sharing, etc?
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by lien 15y ago
OK. I will play the devil's advocate because I want women startups to succeed. I arrived at the site and I don't know what the site is about. Do you want me to do something? or read? It looks like a content site but i'm not sure what the co
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by lien 15y ago
these are good slides. just realized that buyosphere is the same as pinterest. one succeeded and one didn't (or maybe hasn't yet?). my first observation about buyosphere is that the name itself drives users away. to the user, it kind of sou
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by lien 15y ago
use ul/li/div will be better than tables. table is a bit of old school and I think I read somewhere that some newer browsers don't handle it well.
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by lien 15y ago
netflix users, you guys can thank me! looks like the email i sent to reed hastings positive effects now that they're backpedaling on the decision! wow, when netflix first came out with the decision I thought it was a brilliant plan for a fu
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by lien 15y ago
Hi PG, we submitted the application and included an idea for a business/enterprise application built on Twitter. While it is not the main idea with which we're applying to YC, it is something I've thought about for a long time. This Twitter
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Can Google really do social?
20 points by lien 15y ago|4 comments
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by lien 15y ago
ugh...Java...i took Java in college and found it to be a horrible language. loads so slow and not the best web dev language around.
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by lien 15y ago
A year ago I started learning web development and found that you have to start with a framework. I used CodeIgniter (PHP) as the code is pretty clean. It's been around for a long time so there are a lot of communities where you can ask ques
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by lien 16y ago
Hi, I just realized there's a question to our application that I didn't see until now. I just responded to it and also emailed Harj. Thanks lien
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by lien 16y ago
You have to ask yourself: Are you sure you want to do QA? Some people go into QA without really knowing what QA is. QA is really a support role and won't get you very far in your career. Most people in QA do have a heavy engineering backgro
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by lien 16y ago
entrepreneurs don't have $$ to hire you and most of the time they'd rather do everything themselves anyway. you should look into contracting at a startup. it allows you to work as much as you want, or as little as you want
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by lien 16y ago
this quote didn't even show up on your database, "That rug really tied the room together, did it not?" whereas it's fine on google
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by lien 16y ago
that is not to say that you can't make it work, but it's hard...just put your shoes in the consumer...they probably go to google if they need to search for quotes...same way if you were looking for lyrics you'd go to google..and most of the
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by lien 16y ago
ok..let me ask you this? why can't i use google search vs. yours. I mean no one will think about suzbin when it comes to "search". the average user would probably go to google...
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by lien 16y ago
dang...I didn't think i'd run into this again. I used to volunteer at middle schools years ago and used NetLogo to teach girls how to program...what are you using this for
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by lien 16y ago
icon and fitness manufacturers do make accessories to their standard equipments. also, the thing is that they already have an installed base at gyms. these companies have a large software team and they will be able to eliminate you over tim
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by lien 16y ago
Thanks, I'd rather be the one who's obsessed than being the one who doesn't care. FYI. social media is not synonymous to socializing.
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by lien 16y ago
If other people are able to produce with a graph of real time data with Wi-Fi, while yours is only capable of recording one data point, then it may not make the product indispensible enough for people to use, or pay for it. You are basicall
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by lien 16y ago
there's no reason why you have to tell your current employer that your offer was retracted. tell them you've given the new job a second thought and that you feel that belong where you are. you can't sue in this situation because i'm sure so

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