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5911.
by mathattack 13y ago
Glad that you can make it work. It sounds like you're very reasonable about the costs and sacrifices involved. It's not just "invest consulting money in product development", rather it's "invest and save ever
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by mathattack 13y ago
Myth: It’s easy to go from client services to products. Reality: It’s really really really hard. As you’re selling client services you’re also marketing and building a product, so you’re basically working two jobs. You’re promoting two com
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Whittaker Chambers versus Ayn Rand(bloomberg.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
The trick that I've used is saying the name 3 times in the initial conversation. That usually works for me, and people like to hear their own name in conversation. Otherwise I have to use the "Have you met..." introducing t
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by mathattack 13y ago
They are from Edmonton, no? Interesting place for an e-Commerce startup. (They do have that monster mall - not sure how much that helps or hurts them.) How is the scene there?
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by mathattack 13y ago
Yes - they are very much multinationals both in customers and employees. I think the true sense of their being American (and this does include Accenture) is that is where they were founded, and did much of their early growth.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Or perhaps the Paypal and Salesforce mafias don't need Founderdating? It seems like a very non-scientific sample, but still interesting. Google versus Yahoo was a surprise, but perhaps Yahoo also has incented more people to leave over
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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen likes idea of company breakup(news.cnet.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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Did Obama Spy on Mitt Romney?(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
Paying for favors in advance goes a long way. I like the saying, "Dig the well before you need it."
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by mathattack 13y ago
It gets worse with Political Science, or perhaps the broader Social Sciences.
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When Big Data goes bad(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
While there may be issues with localized liquor laws, this is the greatest idea I've ever heard. Too bad you just missed the last YC batch! I'd be your first beta user.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Most definitely so! :-)
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by mathattack 13y ago
I think you'd get very depressed just by the statistics, let alone the reproduction. Especially if you included journals of econometrics.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Exactly. If you're doing statistics for yourself, it's good to know the tricks so that you don't fool yourself by mistake. Many times people use statistics to support their positions, rather than to make up their minds. If
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by mathattack 13y ago
I like that he references Huff's "How to lie with statistics" in the first sentence of the intro. That was the book that came to mind when I saw the subject. Also reminds me of the Twain quote, "There are three types o
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by mathattack 13y ago
True. But many times the networking comes from a junior person looking for help finding a job. I take those calls because everyone has to start somewhere. Usually I pick up the Starbucks because they're less likely to have any incom
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PokerSnowie creator Johannes Levermann(thinkingpoker.net)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
For anyone in Sales, to be any good you have to go through something like this to depersonalize the rejection.
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by mathattack 13y ago
When people show up to networking meetings with a gift (book, chocolate, whatever) I know I'm being manipulated but I don't mind. I'm more likely to pass them on with a good reference because I know they'll behave well
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by mathattack 13y ago
Does she have a competing book on the market? Or is she just reviewing the book with a writer's eye?
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by mathattack 13y ago
20k? Wow! I suspect that a resourceful kid could get a meeting with PG for free if they thought hard enough. So I see this as 100% Donation. In some traditions, the value value of a donation is from the heart of the donor. In others it&#
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by mathattack 13y ago
I suspect that among the current generation of tablet buyers, it's more well known than in the US.
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by mathattack 13y ago
There's a spectrum. On one end are the large organizations stuck in analysis paralysis. On the other end are firms too busy getting shit done to fix root causes. You can put Google and Facebook at spots somewhere in the middle - whe
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by mathattack 13y ago
My anecdotal experience of friends there is that they are universally talented. I can't point to anyone who squeeked in. Of them, half are working their tails off optimized completely working at a place that can scale their abilities
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by mathattack 13y ago
Yes - expertise is highly overrated too. Ask experts to give 90% confidence intervals on topics in their area of interest, and see how many they get wrong. This spans industries.
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by mathattack 13y ago
This may seem like a stupid question, but wouldn't the owners (including current senior management) know this, and be be able to double their wealth by squeezing out the inefficiency? Why does this break down? Is it because outside s
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by mathattack 13y ago
Exactly. The problem with this sample is the same as In Search of Excellence - you can see what the good companies do, but what makes them unique? You can correct for it somewhat by adding comparison companies that failed, but the real th
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by mathattack 13y ago
Ok - 100k and it's 50 an hour. You could be freelancing with that time. Unless you get enjoyment out of rebuilding homes and customer service. In that case, knock yourself out and do 2 more. Or plow the earnings into a housing empi

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