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by mceoin 9y ago
I'm currently building a "social bookmarking" tool, so can't speak to first hand evidence but have looked into this and spoken to people (2nd hand, not 1st hand sources). [would love to chat over coffee or email with oth
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> Same reason RSS is relatively unpopular. My take on this is that copy/pasting a script was a broken UX for mainstream adoption.
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Congrats on the launch. It looks like I can click on a tag (on hover, color and cursor change), but when I do that nothing happens.
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Because the functions of government bids are supposed to be clear and transparent. Large bidders over time build increasingly customized software for the government until there is lock-in. The greater problem here is the theory of competiti
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Context: I have been to Techcrunch Disrupt a few times (free both times) and have friends whose companies were in startup alley. The answer to this is relative to the time and cost inputs. If you are a small company and bootstrapping, then
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There have been enough failed startups with hot tubs that this advice may seem heavy-handed, but necessary in hindsight.
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Decent salaries come at later stages of funding.
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Couldn't disagree more. You should pay yourself the absolute minimum you need to reduce burn and extend your runway. This doesn't mean free, it means living expenses but no more. Keep the burn low and extend your runway. If those
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Magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Mexico City(earthquake.usgs.gov)
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Somehow, the ICO craze bypassed the working demo phase.
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"Innovation is path dependent", and in the case of the World Wide Web, "done" really was better than perfect.
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Correction, looks like he coined the term hypertext, not hypermedia.
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Xanadu was Ted Nelson's proposed version of a hypertext publishing medium that predates the World Wide Web. (I believe he coined the term "hypermedia", but I could be wrong) It is interesting alternative to "what could h
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Medical tourism is an idea worth going after if it's something you're passionate about. There are players in the space but it's still early days. - marketplace play - moral good - huge market
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Philosophy and meditation.
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Tried it, liked it. Best vegetarian burger of my life.
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On mobile, The email modal is over most of screen and can't be closed...
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Answering my own question from their website: "Ruby on Rails, Backbone, React, Sass, Postgres, ElasticSearch and Redis, just to name a few."
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What's your tech stack?
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ICOs are wildly popular (granted, not all from U.S., but crowdfunding seed capital is proving successful for the right "idea spaces")
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Cities have two things in abundance due to human input/output: fertilizer and water. They lack sunlight but with cheap energy LEDs fill that gap. High density city-"farming" makes economic sense in certain contexts: - high de
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"The Katowice club overlooked Frédéric Chopin Street; its coat of arms is an eagle and an ice pick. Many dozens of climbers each night talked mountains, life, and more mountains, and sang songs and drank vodka. To gain admission at th
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This article is spot on. I grew up swinging on these as a kid, then helping out with the washing, then playing goon of fortune as I grew up.
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“We got the whole prison stoned, this is what freedom is really about. It’s not about not being in chains, it’s about not having your mind enslaved,” Nick declared.
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I wasn't aware Dropbox still offered a free plan?
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Or perhaps they could pre-mine a coin they would be paid in: https://startupboy.com/2014/04/01/the-fifth-protocol/
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(Foreword: I went through a bootcamp, had a positive experience). The only reason not to go through a bootcamp, presuming it is reputable, is price sensitivity. They offer better value than a college degree (salary offer wise, both for tech
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Third Spaces are important for building local communities, but why must they be supermarkets? Time being zero-sum game, the challenge/opportunity isn't how to preserve artifacts of accidental discourse, but to create new fora that
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I'm getting this too
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I wasn't thinking so much in the line of financial aid as funding global entrepreneurship. One of the impressive things I've noted about 500 Startups is their international outlook, where the goal isn't to find startups and b

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