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by mathattack 13y ago
My first thought on seeing the title was, "There must be a behavioral basis to this." I'm interested in how much of this is ethics, a push to get more drastic results, or what is accepted by journals. The last case can be ve
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by mathattack 13y ago
It is absolutely not exaggerated. In NYC there are: - Pre-school admissions counselors for 2 year olds. (This is one of many -> http://www.privateschooladvisors.com/ ) - $500 dollar an hour services that can find tutors
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by mathattack 13y ago
What's interesting here is that they would Facebook rather than LinkedIn. Perhaps the LinkedIn network will suggest "Can you afford to pay?" while Facebook is "Are you inclined to?" Or perhaps they're targeti
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by mathattack 13y ago
Indeed. The title is a little misleading (they agree, rather than debate) but I wouldn't have gone to the comments without the hint.
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Everything that’s wrong with Microsoft, as told by veterans who left(qz.com)
3 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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Will accurate 3-D reproductions disrupt art markets?(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
Fair enough - you don't need them too soon. But in this instance, the starting point is the founder deciding (in hindsight) that spending all of their time in Sales would be good.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Example: I recommend a client to hire a specific 3rd party consulting firm that will work side by side with my team from the product vendor. The firm's salesman agrees to my methodology and deliverables. The project starts, and thei
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by mathattack 13y ago
"We were the kind of start-up started by nerds who were really good at programing and really, really bad at sales and business. Now I would know exactly what to tell my previous self, which is that I should be spending all my time sell
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by mathattack 13y ago
Could it be that people from startups won't listen to someone that takes themselves too seriously? A "Very Important Person" in a "Very Nice Suit" won't resonate with an engineer in flip-flops. But someone wh
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by mathattack 13y ago
I long ago reached the point where I can type much faster than I can coherently code. I haven't reached the point of being able to type as fast as the nonsense that my mind thinks up.
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by mathattack 13y ago
The article doesn't make many comments about efficiency. Achieving an empire through forced labor is different than doing it efficiently.
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by mathattack 13y ago
"just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu" Is there a bigger understatement in tech history? It certainly rivals Thomas Watson's alleged quote of the world market being "Approximately 5 computers".
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by mathattack 13y ago
A mentor explained this to me as, "If you want someone to do something, you have to let them save face. If someone screws something up and you want them to fix it, you can't humiliate them in the process." I used to get very
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Board of the Borg(techcrunch.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
I had a business colleague who was based elsewhere in Asia for several years. He visited Thailand every few weeks the entire stay. When he returned to the US, immigration gave him the same rundown. When he finally convinced them that he
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by mathattack 13y ago
Seems a stretch to say its untouchable. A policeman. An always show up and ask you to attach some hardware to the machine.
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by mathattack 13y ago
How did they get the status to begin with if they never filed taxes?
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Microsoft's two CEOs(money.cnn.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
It is inevitable that as companies get bigger, the things they do to allow them to scale takes away from their nimbleness. I can't think of a single instance of where the largest company in an industry is the most nimble. Coordinating
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by mathattack 13y ago
The other benefit of services is you wind up having a lot of people at the customer sites. Instead of having an expensive salesforce, the customer pays for your salesforce as consultants.
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by mathattack 13y ago
They were mainframes, PCs and Operating Systems. Now they're out of PCs and home operating systems. They've gotten much bigger on corporate services: They compete with Accenture on large software implementations, and do big EDS
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by mathattack 13y ago
Is it looking to the future, or having a consumer focus versus enterprise? Consumers are fickle, and you have to be on top of the latest trends in GUI, service, products, business models. Corporate customers tend to be stickier, and more re
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by mathattack 13y ago
Their dominance over Netscape scared a lot of people. "What if Microsoft comes in and gives everything away for free to keep the OS monopoly?" was a legit fear. Gates was simultaneously a product master, and very competitive. S
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by mathattack 13y ago
It wasn't, but it should have been.
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The Value of a CEO(marginalrevolution.com)
4 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
Take software development as an example. Half the battle is knowing what needs to be built, half the battle is knowing how to build it. The former aspect takes a lot of people skills. If it's a big project, the latter takes it too.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I was thinking there wasn't much synergy if you're just using the profits of one business as a VC pool for the rest. Better to give the cash back to shareholders and let the market decide which to fund.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Right, and he hasn't moved the stock at all relative to the expectations when it was handed to him.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I was thinking similar. Balmer's goodbye note mentions an organization based on functions and engineering. But not customers. :-)

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