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by marcin 15y ago
There is a previous post mentioned (by Mark Suster http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/08/15/why-you-need-t... ) but I felt like this one adds more color to the approach.
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How hundreds of coffee meetings have paid off for TeachStreet(blog.nosnivelling.com)
27 points by marcin 15y ago|4 comments
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by marcin 15y ago
It's true that UK banking system is totally wrong (which is interesting, considering that they invented modern banking). There are multiple regulations that make bankers life hard, most prominent being the anti-money-laundering regulation.
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by marcin 15y ago
Warsaw (Poland) Front-end developer (HTML+CSS on Python). LinkFindr helps people use their social networks to drive business much like Facebook helped Ivy League students leverage their friendships to get laid. We integrate 4 networks, inde
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by marcin 15y ago
This piece particurarly reflects the tech startup world: "You can quit if you want to. Or you can stick with it until you get lucky. The are no easy answers. No quickie fixes. No direct paths to success. No one is forcing you to do this. Yo
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by marcin 15y ago
One more proof that startups are for people that are into the experience. Not the money, not the credit, just the fun of doing it. If you're about calculating your percentage, figuring out if your're getting paid the largest sum of money ar
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by marcin 15y ago
Nice polarising title, but: 1. You're not getting screwed, you are making a choice, which is driven by market factors like your alternatives, expected utility from the job etc. 2. The numbers given are quite extreme - if the guy is really w
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by marcin 15y ago
Adblock? Please. POP / IMAP - valid points. But this is slightly different - it's a product they designed from scratch, control the UX etc. Still - no business model.
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YC Winter 2012 - applications are already open(ycombinator.com)
2 points by marcin 15y ago|0 comments
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by marcin 15y ago
The thing is - with the new interface, that is perfectly accessible through the browser AND makes sure your offline is in-sync why would people carry on using the regular version?
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by marcin 15y ago
Yes, but as you said yourself it is local (targeted). Also, those ads usually have very precise call to action and very often are connected with current offer/sale/etc. They're also specific to US - very hard to find anywhere else in the wo
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by marcin 15y ago
Good point. Also worth comparing startups to regular SMBs, who don't do national TV advertising but rather focus on local listings, niche magazines and outdoor. There is a tool for every marketing job, which for a startup might mean sponsor
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by marcin 15y ago
Great work - a bit of a 'form over function', but it at least got me till the end (which few how-tos do).
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by marcin 15y ago
As much as I'd always rather have a designer that does HTML on the team (for the sake of quick and agile adaptation), vs someone doing just photoshop, I believe that a good analogy would be architecture. Architects have fairly good understa
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by marcin 15y ago
Deck is doing that somehow (caching ad impressions at least) - so it is an addressable issue. However - this app works both in online and offline mode, so my point was not really touching the offline ad problem - thanks for pointing it out.
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by marcin 15y ago
Gmail is clearly more of a beta than a functional product (namely attachements don't seem to work), but the biggest question/implication of this change I see is evaporation of any business model (as in 'the ads are gone'). Besides that - I
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by marcin 15y ago
So let's have a laugh :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2899691
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by marcin 15y ago
I suppose the downvote was from you - thanks
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by marcin 15y ago
what resolution? drop me a line at grodzicki on gmail
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by marcin 15y ago
so sorry to disappoint you
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by marcin 15y ago
Sorry, we suck in design (as the rest of the site undoubtedly shows) :)
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by marcin 15y ago
Someone obviously thought that the 'W' concept can be recycled now.
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Google Wave logo facelift? No, wait - it's the Wallet.(dl.dropbox.com)
1 points by marcin 15y ago|1 comments
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by marcin 15y ago
I guess we will all agree that there is an outrageous error in the article. It should not be 'Terminator itself', but 'Terminator himself' rather, shouldn't it?
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The importance of the narrative - Mark Suster(bothsidesofthetable.com)
1 points by marcin 15y ago|0 comments
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by marcin 15y ago
I think you built a very nice business, but 'Lean Startup' as the term everyone is using reflects some guidelines and principles a project should follow - like customer development, learning cycle etc. Lean does not mean 'cheap' or 'without
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by marcin 15y ago
yeah, already got that under another post - sorry :)
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by marcin 15y ago
oh, and you can't check it on joindiaspora, unless they sent you an invite - that is precisely why I asked the question
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by marcin 15y ago
Interesting - I didn't notice is before on other threads (in most of those I read people clearly stated their origins). Thanks, cause I wanted to get more involved more and would probably hurt myself in the long run :)
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by marcin 15y ago
If I remember correctly from the Kirkpatricks Facebook Effect, there is a lot of ego play in those acquisitions. Although I need to say, that it would take a lot of ego out of me to shell out 8.5b :) Marcin / http://linkfindr.com

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