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   by mathattack 15y ago

   Selfishly, I couldn't imagine an angel funding strategy that didn't involve begging him to be an early investor.
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   by mathattack 15y ago

   I agree - systems fail for many reasons at once. People like root cause analysis because it allows everyone to point the finger at someone else. Of course the flip side is equally awful. When folk say "that's just how it works around here"
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   by mathattack 15y ago

   Fair points though the Internet delivery model won't make advertising or sales promortion go away. More efficient, yes, but not gone.
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   by mathattack 15y ago

   Every business likes to buy from perfect competition and sell as a monopoly. This keeps input prices low and output prices high. This model is so profitable that companies bribe politicians to maintain it. Donating to a SuperPAC is more
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   by mathattack 15y ago

   Am I the obliging who dislikes giving this jackass notoriety? Ignore the trolls, don't feed them.
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   by mathattack 15y ago

   All Science Fiction writers miss big trends. Asimov missed computers. Whoops! This makes it all the more impressive when they do hit it. And the greatest science fiction renders technology irrelevant. When Star Trek broke racial stereo
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   by mathattack 15y ago

   Great call if his heart wasn't in it any more. You need to look forward to going to work and going home. Leave one out of balance and things fall apart. I am curious about the culture there. FogCreek seems very family friendly. Did it n
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   by mathattack 15y ago

   Seems to me that Zynga is just operating like a credit card company. This isn't a judgment, I just find it have an emotional response towered MasterCard or Visa. They also do a lot of data analysis, only care about their best customers, a
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   by mathattack 15y ago

   The material may be the same but the fellows at MIT generally pursue it much deeper.
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    I don't see Khan replacining teachers - Henie changing what they do. Rather than lecture and quiz in the classrom, he enables the model to be flipped. Lectures and quizzes on your own time, come to class for help and interactive discussio
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    People grinfuck you when you waste their time. The core point lost in the delivery is startups need to build and sell. We learn how to deliver. Few are taught how to sell. (& certainly not in any top 10 MBA curriculum!)
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    It took me many years to learn the leave and counter game. The caveat is once you start playing this, you lose trustworthiness in the eyes of your employer. You get money, but lose promotions. I think firms need to be consistent. Either
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    It's amazing how many folks at a software firm struggle to make a videoconference call, let alone a 3 way call. :-) Then again, in a prior life as a telecom consultant, I couldn't get 3 way calling to work on a landline.
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    Are they looking for PR or for that smart person who finds it to apply?
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    Interesting article. It basically cover loss leaders. Not news, but perhaps it was to apple. HP gives away printers to sell ink. Safeway cuts the price of bananas to 30 cents a pound so you'll buy overpriced oranges. It appears the same w
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    Before complaining about success and size, it is important to know what % of college grads have each of these majors. Without knowing this, the conclusion of "Engineers with advanced degrees are more likely to become CEOs than MBAs" is sus
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    I'm not sure they're doing good stats... A better first question is, "What % of advanced degree engineers become founders?" and "What % of MBAs become founders?" From there you can go on to questions of size and success. As listed, the answ
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    They were the penultimate example in the 80s and 90s, but are they still? (I don't know the answer, but I believe the innovation machine has slowed)
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    My sense is survival (as opposed to market outperformance - the subject of his later book) comes from 2 sources: Financial conservatism and culture. Procter and Gamble does well because of low leverage, and a culture that values long term
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    Indeed - it's a big tradeoff. It's probably 1/2 the cost of either coast, and you can send your kids to public schools without worrying about them getting mugged. But it speaks to the culture when cities brag about being, "Just 4 hours fr
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    I like reading Collins, but he's not much for rigor. His "Good to Great" companies didn't stay Great.
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    Amazing this got by Steve Jobs! But I think we're missing that it's a parody of the old movie industry.
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    I find the use of kickstarter more interesting than the tool. Perhaps this is because I generally wake up when my kid starts screaming, rather than when my body tells me it's time.
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    Speaking from experience, they don't pay as well in Iowa as the coasts, but it is possible to find a job if you'll move to where they are. To generalize about the midwest, you have a lot of people who still spend their life at one company,
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    Another thread today references Barnes and Noble versus Amazon. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/business/barnes-noble-taki... If Amazon really has 100+ times the market cap as Barnes and Noble, perhaps it's another reason to think Yuri
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    Interesting. The Yuri Milner thread suggests that the Walmart in China will be 100% online. Based on this article's market values of $88 billion for Amazon versus $719 million for Barnes and Noble, I'd say he's right.
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    I like what he said about Wal-Mart of China being an on-line company. A lot of the emerging markets skipped fully building out landlines to go mobile. Could a country skip brick and mortar to go largely online? I can think of a dozen reas
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    Interesting comment. I think the Avatars go away in a post-Hollywood world, but the smaller movies will thrive.
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    It would be interesting to follow the money trail on these 16 scientists. I do somewhat buy the plausibility of the economic arguement that reacting to global warning is more efficient than trying to stop it. The "it's not proven" crowd see
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    by mathattack 15y ago

    Being a good editor rather than writer applies to design and coding too. Of course this is probably why the article is in HN.