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by moocow01 14y ago
I feel sympathy for any employees who exercised their options at IPO - that stock in after hours is at a rock bottom 2.28. Hope strike price was low.
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by moocow01 14y ago
Kixeye may not have as bad a public reputation as Zynga but that "Racism at a gaming company" post ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4603611 ) sure did put them at the bottom of the barrel in my opinion.
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by moocow01 14y ago
Ive put it at the top of my to-do list to use my brain and gut. I think the problem with to-do lists is when people use them to track literally what they are supposed to do for the day ... you should not need a todo list to guide your day i
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by moocow01 14y ago
Capitalism and currency as a concept have no understanding of ethics, morals or good vs. bad built into them. The responsibility of enforcing and encouraging ethical behavior is on the shoulders of the government and broader society. For e
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by moocow01 14y ago
The fact that they are reading off of cue cards about their own project isnt exactly encouraging. Why do we need spaces specifically marketed to "hacking"? Hacking requires a computer, a table, a chair and electricity - just about any real
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by moocow01 14y ago
All depends on your financials and business model - For most consumer internet startups the path to profitability is directly tied to user growth and user engagement. If your unprofitable and your not moving those numbers up all you have i
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by moocow01 14y ago
"But today, it is the very rare Internet software deal that has meaningful technology risk" This statement embodies what I think is wrong with the SV climate today. You seem to have money actively shunning technological risk which usually
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by moocow01 14y ago
"venture capitalists and the tech media began to debate whether there is an optimal age for an entrepreneur to start a company .... The pundits proposed the mid-20s as the optimal age to start a company" May I point out that this is the bes
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by moocow01 14y ago
Can we please not make programming with your shirt off in the workplace a trend? I've heard of brogrammers but this takes it to another level.
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by moocow01 14y ago
Its most likely not a disaster for Apple in that Im sure it was purposeful. Id assume their thinking is that for every "unproven" app that gets surfaced to the user could be lost revenue in place of giving more focus to an established app
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by moocow01 14y ago
I'd argue that this is largely due to the lack of standardization within our industry (note that Im not arguing for standardization for other reasons I think we all know)... Basically when you start a job there is a relatively long learning
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by moocow01 14y ago
Unfortunate name in that wearing it in public will definitely get you ostracized - I have almost no doubt about that. I think Id be genuinely afraid to wear this thing out in that it probably suffers from the same thing mascots suffer from
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by moocow01 14y ago
This is horrible advice... A startup will for the most part only be successful if... 1) You work 20 hours a day 7 days a week (give or take - the less sleep the better) 2) Release a product immediately (who cares if you end up pissing off e
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by moocow01 14y ago
I obviously havent matured very much because the 10 year old in me wants to say "nah-ah blowing works every time" Perhaps I was kidding myself all those years but I swear the games would work after blowing on them. Oh well not the first ti
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by moocow01 14y ago
With all due respect you are pulling a lot of numbers out of thin air. There are only 10 people that they can hire... really? While a totally respectable position, the hire they are talking about (which I guess is the first of the so call
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by moocow01 14y ago
"$300k and a $1m signing bonus" - Where is that figure coming from?
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by moocow01 14y ago
Probably the truth is that most Web 2.0 companies have a mixed bag but by the nature of their business and the startup ecosystem every web 2.0 company has to hype their business and consequently hype the talent they have. Just about every s
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by moocow01 14y ago
Seems like his market research is purely based upon himself. To expand the control group to 2, I have a smartphone but only use it secondarily when I dont have access to my laptop - to me poking around on a 4 inch screen is usually an infe
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Unhappy Valley: A Startup Party's Tinge of Gloom(tnr.com)
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by moocow01 14y ago
What exactly is tangible about this advice? The only thing tangible about it is that everyone is going to be trying to analyze everyone else to see if the fit into the mystical buckets of A players versus B players. Seth Godin sometimes ha
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by moocow01 14y ago
Most businesses have a 100+ competitors in their own country. I think you have your answer.
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by moocow01 14y ago
"I also agree where he said any legal start up is fine and free of guilt - but don't worry I would be behind any start up or government initiative that gave away heroin to Junkies" And if the government does make it legal to give away heroi
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by moocow01 14y ago
Hes referring to the opportunity cost. If our society is focused on rewarding those that make little trinkets to distract everyone, I guess so be it but I think the argument is that we'd rather invest those people in solving the things we
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by moocow01 14y ago
"then I declare software dead, since it costs $0 to manufacture software" Please send me the name and contact of the dev shop you are using.
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by moocow01 14y ago
Isnt this what carsdirect.com does?
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by moocow01 14y ago
"You pay us to be advertising for startups"... Im sure some will signup out of love for YC but have you thought of instead paying people to receive the T-shirts with the hope that they will wear them in public?
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by moocow01 14y ago
Id say from being involved with hiring in a few different spots that they are definitely on the higher side but not insanely so. There are a lot of jobs in startups that are quite low on salary but higher on the equity side (or atleast tha
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by moocow01 14y ago
In regard to 1 you may want to think of it in terms of percentage of internet users who are on Facebook rather than sheer numbers. My guess would be that Friendster, Myspace, and Facebook may have had similar percentages in their prime and
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by moocow01 14y ago
I see a lot of my own opinion in your post. I did not have similar feelings when I started the transition from college to SV about 6 or 7 years ago but have similar thoughts after going from project to project, company to company. Oddly f
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by moocow01 14y ago
That is true - there is no math to this one but I do know from observation that if you have a decent roof over your head, running water and electricity, decent transportation, an internet connection and a computer all "paid off"... the rest

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