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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Personally I found Dartmouth GPAs correlated to how often you went to class and how much attention you paid to the lecture. If you didn't go or zoned out, you'd be working all day and all night just to catch up on that 1 hour you missed.
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
It's peculiar that medical residents are systematically sleep deprived but commercial airline pilots cannot fly/work longer than ~8. Most of the time the plane is on auto-pilot, but there's no such thing for zombie residents doing triage at
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Doesn't seem that Facebook, Twitter, or Hot or Not would emerge from that class, since the business models were not clear from the start (or now for that matter).
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
"The only thing that’s impossible right now is registering a new .ly domain" Is www.libyanspider.com not working anymore? It's hanging right now. We got an .ly domain 2 weeks ago.
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
It's a terrible deal if you do the numbers but extremely convenient. Place to live + job + friends bundled into one. And you'll be (in)famous for being the person who accepted.
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
The female marker is always a skirt. I wonder if it holds in Scotland.
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Personally, I think it's better than Last.fm. There are too many pages, too many clicks to get anywhere, it's too much information and too much hierarchy. Like.fm is simpler to discover what friends whose music taste I like are listening to
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Love it. Runs in the background, I don't have to do any work at all. When I need it, it's updated. Nice work keeping it simple.
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
I love The Noun Project. They have the simplest, most easily recognizable set. Just wish they had all the social media ones as well: http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset:nounproject
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Stanford professor Margaret Neale's research shows that diversity, not just women but simply people of different backgrounds, makes a team perform better. ( https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/facultyprofiles/biodetail.asp?i... ). So there is evi
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Nice! Give it a day then see how it compares to the Flickr interesting photos. I bet there's more off beat and a better variety of photos. Human vs. Machine. Are you sharing what rises to the top via some feed? I'd love to plot them on a ma
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
More people would read the article if it wasn't a solid block of text. Good typography makes all the difference. For paragraph comparison: NYTimes: font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; width: 600px; Men's Journal: font-size: 12px (small); li
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Groupon is primarily good for discovery, but it's up to merchants to capitalize on referrals from their Groupon customers. It works particularly well for small operators who need to put a quirky business on a map. For example, a friend who
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Pinterest, Dribbblr, and Quora in the early days were all invite-only and read-only to the public. I don't think it's confusing at all. However, you would benefit from exposing some awesome content on the home page to entice people to reque
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Massages and yoga classes work wonders to clear my head and solve design problems I'm stuck on. It's impossible to see the problem from a new angle by continuing to stare at the same screen for hours. Maybe Google and Facebook got it right
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Great use of color and illustration to keep it classy yet inviting. Copy is spot on, too. Congrats.
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Lost decade or not, it is impossible to do a startup in Japan. We tried a few months ago, with 2 Japanese classmates. Even though they both spent significant time in the US, they could not say "no" and would not take any risks. If in doubt,
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
What you don't see here is the inherent double standard in this conversation about women as accessories. The awesome blonde med school girl at the chess game? Accessory. Hot Russian immigrants, accessories. Are women just decor? What I find
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Ha. I'm a hot girl who went to an ivy school with 4yrs in startups (yes I code), and got completely dissed by Dave McClure when I tried to introduce myself. Do not approach this man cold. He is mobbed at every networking event being one of
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Can someone put this on slideshare? I'm in Indonesia and my internet is dialup slow. Thanks.
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Curious, did you PDF business cards to keep the image, or just save the OCR data to your contacts?
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
Dartmouth College and Stanford Business School classes did. We often had old tests to study from. Professors need to work harder and think up new questions each year!
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
1. Note problems people have, like the Techcrunch post yesterday with Sarah Lacy complaining about OpenTable: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/16/can-and-should-opentable-be... 2. Write a blog post about it 3. See how many people react to my
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
What I want is to email friends for their recommendations and have someone parse their prose and put it on a map for me. Friends ask friends for recs all the time and its tricky to google each place, put it on the map, figure out if you're
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
How about some good old promotion? Contact bloggers and try to get some PR. Here's a few good articles that have been mentioned in HN: http://blogs.balsamiq.com/product//2008/08/05/startup-market... http://blog.zferral.com/post/972974853
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
I checked it out. So far so good! The only thing that's hard is getting content. People only come when they can find reviews, and you only get reviews when people come. Yelp got started having yelp elite parties- they rewarded the top revie
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Design Thinking a New Yelp Homepage(melmiranda.com)
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
What's terrible about PayPal is not that they lock accounts, but that they make it nearly impossible to reach them. It took me 5 days to find a number to call and talk to someone to unfreeze my account (which got locked only because I used
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
They deserve it! PP froze my account with over $1k in just for logging in when I was in London. There was no contact number available, and it took me days to figure out how to call and get them to unlock my account. Jerks.
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by melissamiranda 16y ago
I would find every physiotherapist that ever went to school with you or that you otherwise know through friends of friends and linked in/branchout and email them about your product. Ask them for feedback, and for as many as are responsive,

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