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by neworbit 16y ago
This is a general question and not specifically to you: how successful is he? I have him mentally associated with netscape.com and a bad digg clone, and some time on the VC side of the table - so for people like me who don't know the backgr
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by neworbit 16y ago
With the caveat that Mike Arrington is not an objective third party as regards Jason these days, I recall him mentioning that Calacanis was regularly taking modafinil so as to not need sleep. c.f. http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/03/at-my-wit
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by neworbit 16y ago
That is astounding. I wonder what they paid? Widevine has raised a lot of money over the years. They have a good position in streaming media content protection, but mostly it's DRM for Flash. It means they're taking GoogleTV pretty seriousl
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by neworbit 16y ago
Obligatory "Life Of Brian": We are all individuals! You're correct. Whether this ends up being more distinctive or demarcative depends on how widely deployed it is. A few hundred and it's not very helpful, but if you have tens of millions o
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by neworbit 16y ago
Sure, but how elevated can you expect it to be? (This is a serious question, I am not being snarky.) My vague understanding is that you get some level of metabolic boost from your body busily repairing itself, which is likely to be more tru
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by neworbit 16y ago
or a completely identical infoblock - anonymity of the crowd
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by neworbit 16y ago
...and we don't because we are (too) focused on the sprint, not the marathon. This is solid advice. But you need to start by training the people who need to train others. If you have a bunch of great individual contributor engineers who don
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by neworbit 16y ago
What's replaced eBay? Craigslist? Just chucking the thing in a drawer because you can't sell it for squat?
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by neworbit 16y ago
I've gotten some great advice from folks who were not happy but were working like crazy to make their lives better. Your mileage may of course vary.
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by neworbit 16y ago
"People are mostly good"
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by neworbit 16y ago
You have a more charitable view of VCs than a number of us! But cynical commentary on ruthless VCs aside, I think "stopped believing in games" is probably accurate. Here's why. The gaming biz had largely stepped away from PC platforms in fa
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by neworbit 16y ago
So... if valuation is a big driver/deterrent of angel deals, why don't you spend the majority of your time chasing deals in those cities or other similar areas with entrepreneur/tech talent but less angel competition? Maybe you are - it doe
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by neworbit 16y ago
$30-50M? Seriously, I will quit tomorrow and get a five person team of proven entrepreneurs also put together tomorrow, if I can get a $30M valuation with a VC coming in for 20% of that.
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by neworbit 16y ago
That is exactly what I came to this link to add. Kudos. My only other advice: if you still need a mentor, find someone who you can get an hour or two a week from. You probably still do need advice, but it sounds like you're pretty grounded.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Hah. They have enemies. Find them and explain. If you're talking about Bill Gates, sell to Larry Ellison "Here's how I'm going to put a thumb in his eye." Or at a more accessible level, tell the same thing to Calcanis as regards Arrington.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Baby jogging stroller
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by neworbit 16y ago
Other people are willing to pay more than he is for the same opportunities. When the other guy on the block is willing to spend more money than you think reasonable, it's very possible that the market is overheated. I happen to think this i
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by neworbit 16y ago
It seems like this would cause a lot of low-end inflation as rental prices of cheap housing and such adjusts to the fact that people can now pay more reliably for such things. Equally important, it seems like it'd suddenly be hard to hire s
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by neworbit 16y ago
The only ones I can think of that ended up like this way have some notable differences - for example, managed to actually go public first, etc.
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by neworbit 16y ago
I've never even heard of these guys. Alexa says they're significantly outranked by Digg (#165 vs #125), which is absolutely nowhere near a billion users and would be really lucky to be 5% of that. Unless they run a huge spam botnet, I can't
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by neworbit 16y ago
I don't see those valuations nor investor traction in Seattle, Boston, or LA. Not sure I ever have for Seattle and LA. Part of the reason there is that they aren't in the Valley echo chamber. Farther you get from home, the less press you ge
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by neworbit 16y ago
Sounds like a lot of places are in this boat, even strong second tier locations like Boston and Seattle.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Travis is an interesting guy but caveat emptor.
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by neworbit 16y ago
This is clearly true for employees as well. I have used a lot of recruiting services in the past. There are nearly none that I would recommend, and only a couple of specific recruiters I like.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Hard to say without more specifics. Generic answer would be maybe a quarter of a percent. Ask him to invest now. Even $10. And to help you raise capital (telling other people "yes, I put money into them" lends credibility if the guy does in
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by neworbit 16y ago
Perhaps we'll remember it as the day people stopped whining about the Beatles.
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by neworbit 16y ago
The big names do. Depends, of course, if you can attract Kleiner or Benchmark or the like.
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by neworbit 16y ago
The only ways you'll get an Instagram out of Google is a) Google finds some serious way to monetize it b) Someone gets a 20% wild hair
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by neworbit 16y ago
Hahaha point for you as regards physics. Econ is always a coarse model. Trends or microexplanations. The "invisible hand" is not a steady one.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Work out. Network if there's the right events. Fairly regularly play games of one sort or another (poker night, RPGs, and lately a reasonable amount of Starcraft 2). Watch really dumb movies and have a couple drinks. I like to take a day of

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