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102 Hacker News items about Singularity(google.com)
1 points by mathewgj 17y ago|0 comments
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by mathewgj 17y ago
marketplace for people to sell the art they create with aviary tools; this model is potentially inclusive of consumer products like cafepress, business logos like 99designs and virtual goods like imvu developer community.
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by mathewgj 17y ago
Exactly like unit testing - Eric Ries likes to talk about customer validation as an additional step added to TDD or testing in general - for example a new feature: to constitute progress, first it has to work, then it has to matter.
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Arthur Rock video interview - S.V. pioneer (rare)(youtube.com)
1 points by mathewgj 17y ago|0 comments
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by mathewgj 17y ago
i feel pretty strongly that making an explicit hypothesis about who the customer is (it's okay to be wrong!) completely solves this problem, because if you know who you are trying to reach, it's obvious. if you say: "im making scheduling so
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by mathewgj 17y ago
i thought it was sub-optimal when someone used the word 'boomerang' in a tweet mentioning me, and next thing i know heykiki (which i had not heard of before) @'ed me with a non-relevant link to a search results page for boomerang-throwing c
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Store That Landing URL (Customer Development)(blog.grockit.com)
1 points by mathewgj 17y ago|0 comments
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Excel computing in the cloud. Good/Bad idea?(techflash.com)
1 points by mathewgj 17y ago|0 comments
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Bit.ly affiliate cookie exploit(blog.brandverity.com)
1 points by mathewgj 17y ago|0 comments
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by mathewgj 17y ago
hi matt! ya - my take on web spreadsheets is that there is this awesome combination of a) being really hard to build well, and b) dont solve a specific problem that people want to pay for (applications are too generalized)
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The history of scientific management(newyorker.com)
1 points by mathewgj 17y ago|0 comments
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Computer Rage: Types of Frustration (lap.umd.edu)
2 points by mathewgj 17y ago|0 comments
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by mathewgj 17y ago
i met one of the guys who came from de shaw to work there once. for one thing, shockmarket's director of technology became vpe @ mint.com later on.
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Shockmarket: Quant trading startup circa 1999.(geocities.com)
11 points by mathewgj 17y ago|4 comments
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Just a Means to an End?(jubishop.wordpress.com)
2 points by mathewgj 17y ago|0 comments
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by mathewgj 17y ago
giant plus one to this - mint was brilliant to make a warm and fuzzy credit card lead gen site and then parlay that into this size of sale.
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A New Horizon for the News(nybooks.com)
1 points by mathewgj 17y ago|0 comments
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by mathewgj 17y ago
I definitely think that traditional single-malts produced with renewable tidal power is a better marketing angle than traditional single-malts produced with nuclear power.
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Isle of Islay: 100% Tidal Power(guardian.co.uk)
8 points by mathewgj 17y ago|4 comments
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by mathewgj 17y ago
Other than finding it generally inspirational, I particularly liked the artifact of Benjamin Franklin's daily schedule card/to-do
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How Ben Franklin made America the land of invention(kalman.blogs.nytimes.com)
30 points by mathewgj 17y ago|5 comments
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by mathewgj 17y ago
im hungry cause im smart :)
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Your brain consumes 20% of the calories you eat(books.google.com)
3 points by mathewgj 17y ago|3 comments
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Nissan Plugless Electric Car (wireless charging)(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by mathewgj 17y ago|0 comments
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Malcolm Gladwell: Ron Popeil, Infomercial King (2000)(gladwell.com)
3 points by mathewgj 18y ago|0 comments
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Managerial Blunders - From The Economist(economist.com)
5 points by mathewgj 18y ago|3 comments
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Expanded H-1B/Increased Labor Mobility Data - PPT(scribd.com)
1 points by mathewgj 18y ago|0 comments
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by mathewgj 18y ago
sorry about the linkjacking thing - thanks for adding the direct link
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What Is The Right Age To Start A Company?(kevinmerritt.blist.com)
2 points by mathewgj 18y ago|1 comments
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by mathewgj 18y ago
+1! Totally agree. There are serious angels who co-invest fairly regularly with other angels they know and trust - but these organized groups, especially the pay to pitch ones are a bad neighborhood.

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