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by nrao123 12y ago
Thanks for sharing this post! About this: ===If Lisp is so great, why did we stop using it? One of the biggest issues was the lack of widely used and tested libraries. Sure, there is a CL library for basically any task, but there is rarely
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by nrao123 12y ago
"the common man never had a real chance to invest in your idea." You may not realize that VCs are investing on behalf of the common man. Most of the LP's in VC funds are entities like pension funds who represent the common ma
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by nrao123 12y ago
@pmarca doesn't have the skills to back Jim Cameron. You would need a Warner Brothers/HBO in conjunction etc to back creative artists. Education is a story telling business which may or may not have software at the core. However,
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by nrao123 12y ago
Apparently he didn't say it: http://www.wired.com/2012/04/ff_andreessen/2/ ==== Anderson: A quote of yours that I’ve always loved is that Netscape would render Windows “a poorly debugged set of devi
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by nrao123 12y ago
This is such a great article! Literally, goes through the highs and lows and gives a lot of context to the tweet storming Marc! Required reading for any founders. You can see the parallels between him & other founders as they metamorphi
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by nrao123 12y ago
This the video of the talk where Alan Kay talks about Innovation Vs Invention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTAghAJcO1o
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by nrao123 12y ago
This slow reading idea also jives with Alan Kay's observation of "Slow Deep Thinking" which allowed us to have massive & non-incremental leaps into the future. http://www.clarkaldrichdesigns.com/2009&#x2F
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by nrao123 12y ago
AH is doing some remarkable stuff. 1) Like any great knowledge based firm - which strives to differentiate over and above its people - they have invested in tools. While the inspiration maybe CAA, firms like Mckinsey (knowledge management s
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by nrao123 12y ago
Hmmm- there is perhaps some merit to your theory but I doubt its as easy buying an MLS subscription and flipping homes. Some of what you are saying is applicable to Advertising as well. See Chris Dixon's posts on why Google is so profi
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by nrao123 12y ago
Brilliant stuff! I wish there was a history of the pairs. I really liked some song snippets but before I could hit space to continue playing, it disappeared...
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by nrao123 12y ago
Actually, I didn't think it was a hit piece. I interpreted the article the same way you did (Bezos/AMZN) use the payment data/merchant network for "products that Square is launching--Market, Cash, Feedback, Invoices, Ord
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Robotic suit gives shipyard workers super strength(newscientist.com)
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by nrao123 12y ago
The issue with using a DCF based approach, is that you have to bet only a single scenario whereas if you take a decision tree/probability based model, you can account for a range of scenarios. Here is Charlie Munger on Warren Buffet: =
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by nrao123 12y ago
I didnt get any results for this query: https://www.pennywhale.com/app/queries/execute?utf8=%E2%9C%9...
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Tesla’s Battery Fire Reduction Patents Can Be Used To Make Safer Cars(uautoinsurance.com)
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by nrao123 12y ago
"There was, in fact, a question at a recent “tea time” — bi-weekly employee meetings with top execs — about Rowghani’s large sale of his shares. Those in attendance told me that Rowghani got up and told the audience that he was not thr
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Languages used by Y Combinator Companies(uautoinsurance.com)
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US Senate could protect the people against themselves(delanceyplace.com)
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Mobile-Enabled Commerce Will Yield The Next $100B Startup(techcrunch.com)
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What happened to SF Bay Area startups after the Series A Crunch?(uautoinsurance.com)
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by nrao123 12y ago
And the answer to that is often "No, they aren't." Curious if you have an data/research to back this up. I presume trying to get defintion & then sample of "highly motivated" people & the opposite of th
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by nrao123 12y ago
This is a must read article for anybody Trying to understand what's going on in the hardware / server side for enterprise IT. Cisco's bet seems to be that they can't do anything about hyper scale data centers (AWS, googl
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A Philosophy of Walking: Thoreau, Nietzsche and Kant on Walking(farnamstreetblog.com)
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by nrao123 12y ago
I am also curious on founder stakes in SAAS companies Vs larger enterprise companies. My hunch was that that the customer acquisition cost (before it was paid back in say ~24 Months) are being financed by VCs instead of customers in the pre
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Marc Andreessen on the Choices of High Tech Geniuses(vozag.com)
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by nrao123 12y ago
Here is Chanos in Nov 2010: -5×5 office cubicle for every man/woman/child in China -New Residential real estate accounts for 15% of GDP -60% of GDP is towards fixed asset investment -Buyers in China purchased 44% more residential
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Marc Andreessen on Ex-Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich's Contributions(vozag.com)
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by nrao123 12y ago
From the verge article - outlining the data behind the decision: http://mobile.theverge.com/2014/5/1/5666062/foursquare-swarm... We looked at the session analysis and saw that only 1 in 20 sessions had b
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by nrao123 12y ago
Yes - editing is super hard. I gave up trying to edit a Wikipedia page as well & this specific one was a table which was even harder. Editing should be as easy what the hackpad guys built. Other things that Wikipedia should have had: Ch
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by nrao123 12y ago
I backed this movie & I am very excited about this movie! The trailer looks amazing as well. Also- I would strongly encourage people to also look at Aaron's writing on making Wikipedia better (which has profound consequences for th

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