mikealle233

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by mikealle233 15y ago
The man's multiple degrees are meaningless without knowing where they're from. We live in a world where literally anyone can enroll in the University of Phoenix. In fact, I've heard many people in the education field do so because union con
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by mikealle233 15y ago
Exactly. Put another way: Odds of getting sued: 1% Max downside if he gets sued: What? 50k before he declares bankruptcy? Ok, so risk adjusted cost of the "just fucking sue me" approach: $500. $500 vs. $350,000...hmmm...tough choice. You mi
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by mikealle233 15y ago
AOL's new "business model" is one Google algo change away from going poof. Clearly after Panda, Google is out to get rid of business models like this. Unfortunately they kind of suck at differentiating quality from non quality, but it's c
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by mikealle233 15y ago
I don't get the part about arbitrage of local ad inventory that's no longer available. Is he saying it's no longer available because all the Groupon competitors buying up the inventory?
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by mikealle233 15y ago
We don't blame soldiers, while we do blame teachers, because almost everyone has personal experience dealing with lazy, bad teachers as a student. Many people also have direct experience with lazy friends who became teachers for lack of ot
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by mikealle233 16y ago
No.
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by mikealle233 16y ago
It's really starting to look like Google has jumped the shark with making Larry CEO. Google has serious strategic problems going forward, and it seems the best Larry can do is make 25% of employee bonuses tied to chasing Facebook and ignori
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by mikealle233 16y ago
Arguably. But, good venture capitalists give you not only huge sums of money that you wouldn't otherwise be able to pool, but also advice and access to their professional network. I just find it peculiar how this entire HN community seems
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by mikealle233 16y ago
You're missing marketing, sales and business development in your analysis. Groupon isn't successful because of its programming prowess. It's successful because of its sales, marketing and business development prowess. Groupon is a great exa
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by mikealle233 16y ago
My attitude puzzles you because you're assuming that 90% of the risk comes before the MVP. Absolutely, most startups fail because they build something that people don't want. That doesn't mean things like scalability and maintainability
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by mikealle233 16y ago
"Software is very expensive to build." Not necessarily. Offshore outsourcing of programming is quite cheap. The question is whether your MVP is so complex it warrants a $100/hour local programmer to handle that complexity. In many cases
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by mikealle233 16y ago
I don't understand why all those product and marketing people don't form programmerless teams and cheaply outsource their initial programming needs. This won't work for immensely complex ideas, and it won't produce award-winning code, but i