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by neworbit 15y ago
Also (strangely) carries the assumption that these guys can't be multitasking and looking for other moneymaking opportunities, which might or might not include dealing.
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by neworbit 15y ago
Feedjit http://www.techstars.org/mentors/mmaunder/
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by neworbit 15y ago
I have the strangest feeling I'm probably feeding the troll, but... Why would you bother with CPU switching and such when you could just install an old fashioned microphone? If you were actually inclined to eavesdrop, it seems like hardware
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by neworbit 15y ago
Over ten years that's not stupendously amazing. And clearly the market seems blase - if you improve your top and bottom line and your valuation gets cut in half, that generally means investors don't think your future is all that bright.
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by neworbit 15y ago
Travis kind of thrives on stepping over the line - his first big deal was P2P service Scour and he likes to tell everyone about how there was a half-trillion dollar judgement against them. I don't think he's likely to face anything like tha
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by neworbit 15y ago
I wonder what the Freakonomics guys will say about this - curious to see if they can draw an unexpected correlation (like twenty year ago birth rate or the like).
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by neworbit 15y ago
I'm going to need a new vaporware joke now! This one has served me since the dot com bubble days. Seriously, this looks great. I am afraid I am no longer the target audience but I'll probably try it for nostalgia's sake. I have the stranges
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by neworbit 15y ago
As someone who has never done either, but has done startups, this doesn't make Techstars sound that attractive to me. Seems to make a lot more sense to focus on building your company, and save the schmoozing with 30 other entrepreneurs for
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by neworbit 15y ago
Sony loses control of tens of millions of cloud accounts and their gaming infrastructure disappears for weeks, and people still think cloud = reliable and safe, huh? Even giant botnet infections have nothing on that. There's a place for eve
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by neworbit 15y ago
Not really sure I agree, they're more expensive than more powerful windows laptops in the same size class. And I think I recall hearing that the ipad breakdown per unit is plenty profitable. But I certainly do have to give you that nobody s
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by neworbit 15y ago
Bizarre thinking to say "Apple would charge $35/month for unlimited usage". When has Apple ever gone the route of price competition? They'd charge $99/month or more and people would gladly pay it.
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by neworbit 15y ago
In the same sense perhaps; hidden them from the end user.
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by neworbit 15y ago
If you mean "how do I use Dropbox to do exactly that", I share encrypted files with coworkers so that they are automatically replicated when connectivity is available. This addresses both the security-of-content perspective and the fact tha
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by neworbit 15y ago
FUD about what Google might do in the future does not help me today nor really invalidate the point
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by neworbit 15y ago
Dear Google, you're doing it wrong. We understand that you would like google lockin on our file system, but the rest of us who do not necessarily have 24-7 100% reliable connectivity or prefer to work on things quietly offline (for instance
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by neworbit 15y ago
Google (AdWords)
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by neworbit 15y ago
it's a one time payment (often in stock, which tends to be accounted for differently) and not a recurring $500k a year
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by neworbit 15y ago
Ok, so if you want people to move out of their current overcrowded cities to somewhere else, I guess it makes sense in a command economy to build the cities and then move them in. What happens if people don't want to move, though?
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by neworbit 15y ago
For better or worse, that's how the system works today. DoJ will just conclude that it's legal. Now certainly I don't like it - but the law is on their side, at least until/unless it gets changed.
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by neworbit 15y ago
Hundred, hell, I got four. (Not four hundred, four, trust me it's plenty - we sell Big Solutions Contracts.) Start with your current connections. Attend the conferences of the industry you're in. Ideally, present/speak at them. Blog about s
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by neworbit 15y ago
Damn, I was hoping this was going to spur Amazon to cut prices.
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by neworbit 15y ago
In this case, the whole cut :)
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by neworbit 15y ago
Code (supposedly) linked from http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/05/finally-source-code-of-...
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by neworbit 15y ago
As far as network effect, I would pay a bundle for Twilio if I was in an M&A position.
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by neworbit 15y ago
Yeah but come on, CD Baby is a warehousing and fulfillment company with a niche market that basically gets paid by starry-eyed musicians to let CDs gather dust and paid again to encode their music and send it to iTunes. Some small fraction
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by neworbit 15y ago
a) Probably, though I bet I don't know most of them. If I were MS M&A I would bet disproportionately on mobile, though, because that's an area they need to nail if they want to stay relevant. If they could get 70 out of 200, that'd be a
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by neworbit 15y ago
MS would do a lot better to buy 200 promising startups (especially in the mobile space)
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by neworbit 15y ago
They're still too inconvenient and specialized. Waiting for GPS signal = fail.
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by neworbit 15y ago
Of course it's fast. They cache the whole thing :)
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by neworbit 15y ago
Amazon and Microsoft do not like startups - they prefer to build things internally. And when they do buy startups they tend to kill them. Yes, IMDB is a nice exception, and lately they tend to buy firms and let them run on their own (Zappos

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