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by mblevin 12y ago
Remote work online is absolutely going to be his best bet, and it will pay better. Check out: https://weworkremotely.com/ http://hnhiring.com/ (search for "remote") http://remotenation.
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by mblevin 12y ago
"Warlord" implies a military bent. Many of the worst culprits are bureaucrats - spending most of their time wearing $10,000 suits while being wined and dined by Western leaders and skimming millions into the accounts of their inn
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by mblevin 12y ago
As someone who has spent extensive time in West and Central Africa, poverty is as much a second order (or third or fourth) effect as the Ebola outbreak, and much harder to fight. System fragility (whether it's relative to disease, fami
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Why Is the Bitcoin Price Going Down? An Explanation(coinsetter.com)
1 points by mblevin 12y ago|0 comments
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You See Sneakers, These Guys See Hundreds of Millions in Resale Profit(fivethirtyeight.com)
80 points by mblevin 12y ago|21 comments
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by mblevin 12y ago
The goal was free marketing via the press who zeroed in on what appeared to be an ongoing SV story - Bubble 2.0 + gender imbalance + hapless engineer stereotypes. And by any measure, it was outrageously successful.
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by mblevin 12y ago
Two words: Double opt-in. As simple as it seems, that is the primary driver of the success of Tinder, helped generously by a smart on-campus initial seeding strategy for the customer base. Every other dating site allows members to contact
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by mblevin 12y ago
Congrats guys. As a Segment partner, we love that people can "take the Pepsi challenge" in terms of other analytics platforms. Helps prevent lock in and forces companies to continue to push value and differentiation vs relying on
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by mblevin 12y ago
As a former M&A guy and later a founder - It's not just that your interests aren't aligned in terms of financials or IP, your timelines aren't aligned and your desired outcomes aren't aligned. There is ZERO hurry wit
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by mblevin 12y ago
That's precisely why we price on a per-user basis at Indicative ( https://www.indicative.com ) and not on a per event basis. What you described is a lot of work to build and maintain and very brittle. We've had quite a f