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The Last Mile demo day at San Quentin(quora.com)
6 points by mlinsey 14y ago|0 comments
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Socialcam Founder: There Will Be No Instagram of Video(pandodaily.com)
26 points by mlinsey 14y ago|12 comments
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by mlinsey 14y ago
Yes. But if an incoming CEO has a lot of political capital, they can try and demand that certain board members leave as a condition of taking the job. It's unusual, and takes an unusual person to pull it off, but it happens. (For example
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Facebook CTO Bret Taylor Departs (For Start-Ups Unknown)(allthingsd.com)
222 points by mlinsey 14y ago|49 comments
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by mlinsey 14y ago
Crowdbooster is looking for a full-stack engineer in Palo Alto, CA. We've built the best way for businesses to get fast, actionable data about their social media accounts. Tens of thousands of businesses use us every day, including Fortune
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by mlinsey 14y ago
This is fantastic. I hope Facebook continues with the break-apps-up strategy, because it makes a lot more sense for mobile. On mobile, you have less screen real estate, a less precise pointing device (fat fingers vs. a mouse), and you're ge
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Crowdbooster is looking for a full-stack engineer
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by mlinsey 14y ago
"A classic sign of a bubble is when you start getting unsophisticated (non-professional) investors that only see money and start chasing the successes of others." I agree with this, which is why I am confused as to why you see this program
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by mlinsey 14y ago
This is fantastic! Many investors donate heavily to charity already, but making this the policy of the firm sends a very strong message.
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by mlinsey 14y ago
Yes. Rand does not just think that forced redistribution by the state is immoral, but also that private charity is at best morally neutral, and often wrong depending on the nature of the charity (particularly if it is "sacrificial", or is g
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by mlinsey 14y ago
Capital is just society's rough, imperfect proxy for wealth. Wealth is just things people want/ascribe value to. Wealth doesn't just flow, it can be created . Making new things that people want increases the wealth of the world. With soft
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by mlinsey 15y ago
I suppose this class ostensibly belongs in the business school if one's foremost concern is preserving the correctness of the university academic department ontology, but as a matter of practice CS students are the best fit for this course,
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by mlinsey 15y ago
It does apply to later rounds, but the situation in the seed round is much different. In a seed round, you have the option of raising from either angels or VCs, including potentially many different VC's. This gives you some control of the s
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Sequoia certainly hasn't had that effect on YC companies. Nearly every founder I've talked to on the subject has said that when they met with Sequoia, they received good questions and advice about how to build a really big company. There's
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Yep. The Sonalight founders are seriously awesome so I'm confident they'll figure something out on iOS and kill it - I'm just speculating as to why they've been focusing on Android up until now. Controlling the whole app without touching y
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Hopefully they figure out something that works on the iPhone. It can't work exactly like Sonalight on Android works, because the iPhone doesn't yet support launching a third party app based on just a voice command. (Even Siri, a native app,
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Sure, the case is easy to make. Active users for mobile games are extremely monetizable. While most individual games will eventually fade away in popularity, you can advertise your new games to your existing userbase in order to keep them h
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Flickr enables their users to mark their images as not-sharable, which now includes disabling anyone from sharing the images on Pinterest: http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/24/flickr-pinterest-pin/ Legally (IANAL but my understanding is), Pi
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by mlinsey 15y ago
The multitasking founder is an interesting emerging trend - Jack Dorsey being the most prominent example, and Steve Jobs before him. If an effective founder is the rarest commodity, and their role at mid-to-large startups can be reduced to
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Doesn't sound too bad at all, frankly. Someone is just trying to add a little drama to what is otherwise a big success story. It is certainly true that usage of Facebook is rapidly shifting towards mobile, and that currently Facebook doesn'
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Google maps includes sponsored locations when you search for things on the map. Are we going to also prosecute Google for providing free web search, making it impossible to make a competing search engine that charges users 10 Euro cents per
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Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?(quora.com)
7 points by mlinsey 15y ago|1 comments
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by mlinsey 15y ago
That's a valid perspective, and one that can help you become a world-class specialist. Entrepreneurship, however, very much requires you to be a generalist. There are just too many areas to consider: fundraising, hacking, product design,
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by mlinsey 15y ago
In general, press for early stage startups is something you get because you work hard at it, have an effective strategy to get it, and (sometimes) have the resources to hire help to get it. In this way it is not unlike achieving success in
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by mlinsey 15y ago
I think the only problem here is that Google isn't updating fast enough to reflect an increased interest in Santorum the person. When you say: I think his politics are repugnant, but less than 1% of Google search queries for his name are l
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by mlinsey 15y ago
"To people on HN it's a huge plus, but to real world users..." I think the opposite. If HN readers tastes' are similar to the average founder in the Valley, they are vastly more likely to use Macs and iPhones together than the average real
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by mlinsey 15y ago
This is true, but overcomplicating things for most people. You'd have to be a serious bodybuilder to get to the "obese" range of the BMI chart and have that be healthy. The density of muscle is higher than fat but not so much higher (1.06 g
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by mlinsey 15y ago
I agree 4K is too far out to be realistic for an Apple TV released next year, but in general it's a common Apple strategy to essentially finance the production of a new component and buy up the entire production capacity for that component,
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by mlinsey 15y ago
The first couple YC batches were small enough that the money invested was probably a very small portion of what PG/Robert/Trevor earned from Viaweb. For later batches, it had become evident that YC's model was promising, and YC also raised
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by mlinsey 15y ago
Anytime you have both vesting schedules and at-will employment, your employer can fire you at any time and you will not get any unvested stock. Startups need to do this all the time when employees are underperforming or a bad fit. Renegotia

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