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Once(nbashaw.com)
119 points by nbashaw 14y ago|43 comments
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by nbashaw 14y ago
It ok - user acquisition is tough! It takes a lot of work, and submitting your link to Hacker News is not really work. I'd start out by doing some user testing. Have people look at your site and tell you what they think. Then maybe a bit of
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by nbashaw 14y ago
That law doesn't mean you can invest in any privately held company. True, there is a lower bar to entry, but the startups need a reason to want you to invest in them.
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by nbashaw 14y ago
Congrats to Doingtonight! Big fan of your app
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by nbashaw 15y ago
It's a gradient transition. Being employee #10,000 is different from being employee #100 is different from being employee #1.
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by nbashaw 15y ago
Starting a startup is not equally risky for everyone. Some people have their own safety net (family, saved up money, etc) while others don't, making it too big of a risk to start a company. Most entrepreneurs I know didn't take any crazy ri
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by nbashaw 15y ago
I've been volunteering once a week at a local school teaching 6th graders how to code, and it's really amazing how quickly many of them pick it up. Even small things like learning to mix blue and red to make purple using rgb(255,0,255) is u
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by nbashaw 15y ago
I'm surprised Marco didn't mention the most empirically effective alternative - make our own legislative investments. Where is the tech industry lobbying firm? Are the industry leaders like Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook pumping money
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by nbashaw 15y ago
It may be normal now, but it won't be for long. Sunir said it better than I could: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3471464
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by nbashaw 15y ago
The point is not that his product is better, it's that his method of ensuring customer privacy is better and should be industry standard.
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by nbashaw 15y ago
When I watched the documentary the only thing I could think about was how similar Shockley and Steve Jobs's personalities seemed, except things worked out all wrong for Shockley because he pushed his people over the brink to quit. That's th
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by nbashaw 15y ago
Not sure what you mean - can you explain?
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William Shockley: The Steve Jobs Counter-Example(nbashaw.com)
15 points by nbashaw 15y ago|7 comments
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Apps Are Media(techcrunch.com)
4 points by nbashaw 15y ago|0 comments
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by nbashaw 15y ago
Why does this guy keep getting upvoted on HN?
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by nbashaw 15y ago
I've had the opposite experience. I started messing around in photoshop making paintings of websites and dreaming up ideas in high school. In college, I convinced a programmer to help me build one of my ideas, and he agreed on the condition
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by nbashaw 15y ago
Here's a better article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/world/middleeast/panetta-i...
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The War in Iraq is Over(nytimes.com)
1 points by nbashaw 15y ago|1 comments
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by nbashaw 15y ago
Ahh thanks so much.
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by nbashaw 15y ago
So Sproutcore 2.0 split into two camps, Ember.js and Amber.js? Someone correct me if I'm wrong, this is confusing.
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by nbashaw 15y ago
It's sad that this actually made it to the front page of HN. What is this world coming to?
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by nbashaw 15y ago
Just explain exactly what happened, and apologize profusely. Who knows what could happen? I think that's all you can do.
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Twitter is putting Ads in the timeline now.(d.pr)
2 points by nbashaw 15y ago|0 comments
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by nbashaw 15y ago
What was the original title on the HN post?
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by nbashaw 15y ago
I used to be a lot like that. But then somehow I slipped out of the cycle and started being good at things, and I've been truly consistently happy and working hard on fun projects for the past 3ish years (I'm 22 now). I saw some people aski
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by nbashaw 15y ago
Agreed. The first thing you need to understand is that this is targeted at Michigan people, not Bay Area folks. He's basically saying "Look guys, we're outside the TechCrunch universe of big VC money flowing to tech startups, but that doesn
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by nbashaw 15y ago
It's nice that he followed his own advice. None of us knew we were reading a sales letter for his new book until the end of the blog post!
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Describing Products That Don't Exist(nbashaw.tumblr.com)
3 points by nbashaw 15y ago|0 comments
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by nbashaw 15y ago
Well, PHP was certainly a frustrating choice.
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by nbashaw 15y ago
I totally agree. That's why democracy is so hard. Also: For ~5 minutes the reply button wasn't showing up. I guess PG coded in a little feature to make people take some time to calm down before getting into arguments. Beautiful.

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