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by melvinmt 10y ago
You should look into improving your Single User Utility. Here are some links to get started: http://avc.com/2012/12/single-user-utility-in-a-social-syste... http://andrewchen.co/social-products-win
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Thanks for the quote. Just found the entire transcript: http://newfilmkritik.de/archiv/2005-03/los-angeles-plays-its... It's a good read :)
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> But you'd still need to translate for the sake of biological clocks I fail to see what you mean. Do you mean your biological clock needs to see it's 12pm to believe that it's the middle of the day? Why can't your bi
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by melvinmt 10y ago
This. The withdrawal symptoms of coffee usually last for about a week. The thing that is perhaps most surprising is that after that week you'll also feel less tired. Turns out that while most people consider coffee as a remedy to tired
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Wag Labs, Inc. | https://wagwalking.com | Los Angeles, CA | Full Time | Onsite Wag is the fast-growing on-demand dog walking startup and we're currently offering our dog walking service in 12 major cities in the US. Our HQ
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by melvinmt 10y ago
I have the same hair "problem" (it runs in the family on my mother's side), I'm early 30s as well with significant gray hair showing and refusing to dye my hair, and... for me it has always been pretty much an advantage
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by melvinmt 10y ago
You should first start reading these great slides from Carl de Macken (ITA Software co-founder, the thing that now powers Google Flights) http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com... …and then d
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by melvinmt 10y ago
This may be an obvious question but what's a JV call?
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Yep, not sure where this perception of "nobody's using it" comes from but I have been using it in 2 different companies in the last 3 years as well with nothing but love. In fact, if it were the case that "nobody's
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Ah, I thought they only renamed the original company (Snapchat, Inc.), didn't know about a new parent company.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
From Shippo's homepage: "Shyp uses Shippo to automatically get rates from multiple carriers, and create shipping labels at the lowest prices. Shyp accepts orders from their app, and sends shipment information directly to their ful
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by melvinmt 10y ago
So.. what Parent is meant in the title?
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> We’re excited that the members of our engineering team will be joining Stripe So is this one of Stripe's BYOT hires?
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Wag Labs, Inc. | wagwalking.com | Los Angeles, CA | Full Time | Onsite | No VISA sponsorship (except Canadian/Australian citizens) Wag is the fast-growing on-demand dog walking startup and we're currently offering our dog walking
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by melvinmt 10y ago
And here's another quote: (oil) markets can stay irrational longer than (Tesla) can stay solvent.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> Always be invested in the market. I'm glad you don't adhere to the defeatist approach of Efficient Market Hypothesis proponents. Always be in the market, yes. Always follow the market, no.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> Uber logs as many miles in 24 minutes as Google’s autonomous cars have logged in their existence Hmm… Let's try comparing 24 minutes of miles logged in Google Maps (and Waze) with Uber's data and see where they stand then…
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by melvinmt 10y ago
It's not as if you would move your money out of Europe they suddenly can't hit you with taxes anymore. If you want to keep doing business in the EU, you'll need to comply with EU rules (and yes, pay taxes).
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by melvinmt 10y ago
oops, never mind :)
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Wag! | Los Angeles | Onsite | Fulltime | https://wagwalking.com We're a fast-growing on-demand dog walking startup and we're currently operating in LA, NYC, SF, DC, Chicago, Austin, Seattle and San Diego. Our HQ is con
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Welcome to the contradictory world of Startup Advice: Survival Bias Edition.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Last week I took Uber to work and paid only $1.22 for a 10 minute drive. Five minutes later I spent more than that on the toppings of my breakfast.. .. not sure how this is sustainable but I'm enjoying it while it lasts.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
While Uber competes with Lyft directly in the on demand rides space it by no means will gain a monopoly on all transportation, there are multiple levels of competition after all. So I don't believe we'll end up in a monopoly situa
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Obligatory quote (I should write a blog post on this subject some day): "The most common cause of failure in leadership is produced by treating adaptive challenges as if they were technical problems" - Ron Heifetz
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> There is even more incentive for people to not own a car and instead use Uber Sure, but if every company (think Tesla/Google/Apple/Amazon etc) eventually can build/buy autonomous cars and offer the same service, wha
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by melvinmt 10y ago
This brings back memories to the Twilight CD-ROMs [1] we had in the Netherlands in the late nineties that came out every month and had all the latest (cracked) games and applications on it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by melvinmt 10y ago
More competition will pretty much always cause every competitor to spend more and make less... See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition#/media/Fil...
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GDP != Worth
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by melvinmt 10y ago
The article explicitly mentions that if the cost is too high, the minority rule will not apply, but good observation nonetheless.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
I lived in Atherton, CA for a while (granted, one of the richest and safest [1] ZIP codes in the US) and we never locked our house. In fact, I did not even have keys! [1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/police-blott

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