mixmax

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by mixmax 17y ago
I live on a boat in the Copenhagen harbor, nad have done so for the last five years. Here are a few answers: - My experience is that the humidity isn't as bad as it's made out to be. Make sure it's properly heated in the winter, and if you
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by mixmax 17y ago
No worries - and good luck. We Europeans look forward to joining the party :-)
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by mixmax 17y ago
You're basically dismissing everyone outside the US since it's not possible to pick country in the sign-up. That's a lot of market potential you're wasting.
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by mixmax 17y ago
That adds up to around $5 billion a month. I think your estimate is a bit off ;-)
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by mixmax 17y ago
The author seems to contradict himself, first stating that Michael Eisner was an investor in Joost, and then going on to tell us that the problem is that media VC's don't exist because all the outstanding media CEO's don't invest in startup
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by mixmax 17y ago
The thing is that most people don't know what they want. A lot of people think they know what they want, but very few do. Just the other day I had a snowball fight, and it was great fun and a wonderful experience. When I woke up that morn
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by mixmax 17y ago
Why don't you have a blog? I'd love to read more.
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by mixmax 17y ago
Because the password to their homebanking account is the same.
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by mixmax 17y ago
Sounds just like computer programs.
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by mixmax 17y ago
Assuming VC's got 30% of the company that's a payout of $15 million from an investment of $6 million giving a little more than 100% a return on investment. These numbers are educated guesses of course, but it doesn't seem like the VC's got
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by mixmax 17y ago
Having a larger userbase should actually make your service cheaper since you can spread your fixed costs across more users and get serious economies of scale.
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by mixmax 17y ago
Research on the subject seems to contradict you. There are several problems - Incentives are very hard to get right. If your bonus is tied to sales you inflate sales and don't care about margins. If your bonus is tied to margins you oversel
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by mixmax 17y ago
Incentives don't work. This has been documented over and over again, and it's truly puzzling that large corporations don't learn from it. Here's a quick and light article on the subject: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000070
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by mixmax 17y ago
Google's data-mining fu is extremely strong. This is what they do for a living. I'm sure they would be able to reconstruct a life if they choose. For every important life decision there's probably more than one search involved (having a bab
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by mixmax 17y ago
Assuming a 20 day work month and a 10 hour workday that will give you half an hour a month to work on each of your 400 projects. And assuming (optimistically) that you will spend 2 weeks doing each project it will take 15 years to get to 40
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by mixmax 17y ago
I'm ashamed to say that it boils down to two factors: Laziness and copy/paste :-)
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by mixmax 17y ago
If memory seves me correctly it was in revenge of the nerds.
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by mixmax 17y ago
Some metrics: From the article: 60 servers 35% active users (defined as being active a given month) 2,335,676 total users 41,598 premium users 38972 users per server 4 sysadmins $68,641 - Total variable expenses (hardware + software + hosti
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by mixmax 17y ago
it's also interesting to note that Microsoft, a company that many software experts agree makes inferior products, is also a huge market leader. This hints at something a lot of technically minded people oversee: Sales and marketing is what
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Siri Launches Voice-Powered iPhone ‘Assistant’ (wired.com)
1 points by mixmax 17y ago|0 comments
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by mixmax 17y ago
I didn't think fractals had to be geometric shapes, but Wikipedia seems to agree with you, so I stand corrected. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal ) I still think the analogy is pretty good though.
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by mixmax 17y ago
One of the defining characteristics of fractals is that they are self similar , meaning that a small part is similar to a larger part, or to the whole. The authors argument is that there is a self similarity in the quality of restaurants,
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New research rejects 80-year theory of 'primordial soup' as the origin of life(sciencedaily.com)
2 points by mixmax 17y ago|1 comments
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by mixmax 17y ago
It's been tried and it didn't work. It fails to take into account some basic human nature such as the fact that humans care about themselves more than they care about society, and that noone will work without incentives.
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by mixmax 17y ago
This move is obviously motivated by politics and business. Berlusconi basically runs Italy like a corporation that he owns, and since he controls 90% of Italian media his interests don't align with sites such as youtube, Reddit, Digg, etc.
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Internet addiction' linked to depression, says study(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by mixmax 17y ago|1 comments
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by mixmax 17y ago
Guess Denmark won't be the third spacefaring nation then. http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/
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by mixmax 17y ago
I pulled all of the examples from the NASA spinoff page that you linked, except for the Internet one which as we all know was initiated by DARPA. I thought that was under NASA, but can see now that this isn't so. Sorry about that, and thank
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by mixmax 17y ago
If space exploration includes the Apollo project (which I assume it does) you should add integrated circuits, CNC machining, freeze dried foods, LED's, aircraft anti icing systems, solar energy, water purification, the Internet, and probabl
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by mixmax 17y ago
That would be great, but it most probably won't happen. Without flash, unfortunately, a large part of the web doesn't really work. Yes there are alternatives for video, and no everybody won't start using them within the next year or two. Th

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