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by npguy 14y ago
Reference here: http://statspotting.com/2012/08/apple-the-smart-smartphone-m...
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India's Tourism Opportunity(emergic.org)
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Remember, Apple is the smartest of smartphone makers. Look at this stat for example - "Though it shipped only about 6 percent of the industry’s smartphones and tablets in the second quarter, Apple captured about 43 percent of the industry’s
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Comment on the wrong post?
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by npguy 14y ago
Who came up with the idea that anyone deserves money for coming up with an idea? :-) that is the concept that sits at the heart of this broken patent system. We should all just agree that execution is everything, and only fight when someone
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To be complete though, we also need a "what not to do" list. in many cases re. funding that is equally important, IMO.
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"You shouldn't be allowed to write a library for use by other people until you have ten years of programming under your belt. If you think you know better and ignore this rule, then one day you will come to realize the mental suffering that
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I am surprised why nobody has questioned the harsh language in the title. Read it again - Poor starve as politicians Steal - "Steal"?
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by npguy 14y ago
What is really needed, is a HN for other domains outside of technology.
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DHH and Jason have both been making big statements on profiability and how it is good to charge your customers etc - in fact when FB was valued at 33 billion DHH wrote something that basically said it was nonsense. Although one part of me s
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Fred, first things first - I cant believe you responded to this post - it was a pleasant surprise - Thanks !! 1. AAPL has gone up 7.4x since the day you sold. 2. "we would have invested millions in airbnb" thats the whole point, you could h
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by npguy 14y ago
You need to classify this based on what type of work you do. For a developer, checking email would knock him off the zone. For a different job, one email answered late would mean a lost business for example. (the OP is a YC partner)
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by npguy 14y ago
Purely in valuation terms, Apple stock is in no bubble. AAPL is trading at a P/E of 15.86 GOOG has a P/E of 20.08, for example.
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AirBnB Was Not Fred Wilson's Biggest Miss - Apple Was.(avc.com)
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Here is the real issue: finding problems. Here is why: Anyone who tracks startups knows these two conflicting facts: 1. Ideas are not everything – execution is key 2. It is extremely important to solve a problem that people would find value