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by netsp 17y ago
Everyone who is very deep in a single area with jargon and fads has a hard time sorting out what is a reasonable level of knowledge to expect. In this sense, marketers & programmers are kin.
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by netsp 17y ago
Your claim is that they should be paying for the education they are getting. My claim is that they are not paying the angels or forum organisers to 'teach them the basics,' regardless of what they get. The proposition moving money from one
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by netsp 17y ago
That is OK. Investors can't be conned very easily. They can tell if they got value from the event. The existence of a chance of being funded is more opaque.
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by netsp 17y ago
So they get the stuff you want them to pay for for free. Then, they pay to pitch. What am I missing?
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by netsp 17y ago
When you say you got his point, did you mean you get how his point is related to charging people to pitch? I am completely willing to grant that such people exist and are unpleasant, but what relevance does that have here?
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by netsp 17y ago
This is not what it says on the box. What it says on the box is pay to pitch. Pay for a chance to be funded. If it said "getting an idea to market" training and people bought it, no one would be complaining.
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by netsp 17y ago
I don't think it matters who gets the money or who is charged. There is nothing wrong with the service at face value. Startups want to pitch. Here is a service to help them do this. The problem with with the incentive structure it creates.
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by netsp 17y ago
What exactly are you saying? They should be ripped off to teach them a lesson?
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by netsp 17y ago
sounds unpleasant
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by netsp 17y ago
Where exactly is the argument? What I read was this: The charge: Angel groups charging entrepreneurs to pitch are ripping them off. The incentives are all wrong. You are not getting your moneys worth. It is a scam fuelled by founders desper
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by netsp 17y ago
Partnerships have a good track record. I think they add some consistency to the performance.
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by netsp 17y ago
I see that the title was changed back to how it appeared on the site. I actually meant this as a starting point for thoughts on programs such as YC supporting social causes to some extent. Access to a program where people makes things, acce
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by netsp 17y ago
Short Summary: At 14, William, from rural Malawi could not afford school fees any more. He used the local library to study. He found a book on basic physics and one on energy. His English wasn't great, but a lot of the pictures and diagrams
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William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind(ted.com)
4 points by netsp 17y ago|2 comments
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by netsp 17y ago
Depends on how you look at it. If you accept that your own abilities are also limited and that you might make costly mistakes, you might conclude that the total downtime will probably be the same. Say X hours per year. The difference is tha
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by netsp 17y ago
This: " When a utility to which she owed $300 offered to settle for less, Ms. King says, she declined, because she was told an overdue bill takes longer to come off a person's credit report when it is settled for a partial payment. " Probab
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by netsp 17y ago
Interesting. It seems like the plurchase concept of social shopping is a subset of social browsing.
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by netsp 17y ago
I still think it may have been all a joke made by someone who had never tried one before.
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by netsp 17y ago
This is sounding like a response to a report that some data centres are down. We still have free food here in Aman, who are you up there it Vancouver?
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by netsp 17y ago
Wear a different shirt day doesn't cost anything and isn't a perk in the sense we are discussing here. It's a conscious attempt at influencing company culture. Nothing wrong with it (unless its a Hawaiian shirt) but it isn't a perk.
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by netsp 17y ago
Threads like this are almost a poll. I don't see why beliefs can't participate in this discussion.
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by netsp 17y ago
Literary: george orwell douglas adams leonard cohen
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by netsp 17y ago
IS it really expensive? How do you measure these things? Relative to salary? Relative to other company's perks bill?
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by netsp 17y ago
It is not often a primary factor largely because it is hard to know in advance. Also because of the above. Given a choice between salary and other things, people choose salary. However, the "choice" is made in other ways. People stay in or
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by netsp 17y ago
Subtle. People choose higher pay, but are happier with jobs that have more perks. Many of them are not even costly to implement since they cost mostly time and result in higher productivity. Eg RDOs.
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by netsp 17y ago
That makes sense. Elaboration? Proof?
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by netsp 17y ago
You've got me backwards. I agree with you. I understand why you need a mac. I don't understand why it is such a big deal to have to buy a one. Just buy one. If you are doing this for a living, this seems like a reasonable expense. If you ar
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by netsp 17y ago
What you are describing is just normal financing. IE using debt or equity to fund additional business activities. My understanding of a leveraged buyout is that it usually means: Buying a company using its own balance sheet. Borrowing at a
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by netsp 17y ago
I didn't imply that you don't need a mac. I'm just puzzled by people who seem to think that this is so important or that mac ownership is a substantial hurdle to iPhone app development. As you say, the minimum requirement is not all that hi
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by netsp 17y ago
Incidentally, Does anyone have a good resource for understanding leveraged buyouts and how they work? I understand that this broadly means funding the acquisition of a company by placing the debt on the target company's balance sheet but ev

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