orianmarx

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How App.net Can Change Everything(orianmarx.com)
47 points by orianmarx 14y ago|33 comments
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by orianmarx 14y ago
I'm with you on this. I'm looking for implementation, which is why I'm writing about ideas. Nobody can adopt something that doesn't exist.
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by orianmarx 14y ago
It is a large effort, which is precisely why the post is relatively vague :)
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by orianmarx 14y ago
Yup, I'm not trying to usurp this work. I'm trying to support it and also learn more about it. Thanks for the links!
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by orianmarx 14y ago
I agree that this is very much an issue of identity, something I wrote about in my previous post: http://www.orianmarx.com/2012/07/24/a-better-social-web/
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by orianmarx 14y ago
I haven't clarified this yet, but what I'm really advocating is a combination of protocol and hosting, which when put together is, in my mind, something like a distributed virtual OS for startups to build social services upon. OS is probabl
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We Need a Social Web OS(orianmarx.com)
14 points by orianmarx 14y ago|23 comments
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by orianmarx 18y ago
Obviously I can't give an unbiased representation of all the facts... so, I did my best to convey what I felt was behind what went down. I appreciate that you see the nuance in this. What I can say is that we spent a lot of time talking abo
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by orianmarx 18y ago
Heh, I haven't quite settled that yet. It will be on the blog eventually :)
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by orianmarx 18y ago
Yup. How was the summer?
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by orianmarx 18y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I quoted you a bunch in a follow-up post.
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by orianmarx 18y ago
Will do :-)
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by orianmarx 18y ago
But YC also requires you to be in the same location as the other startups and to attend two dinners each week, plus it encourages visiting the YC partners during "office hours".
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by orianmarx 18y ago
A collaborative, relevance-aware feed reader. I'll save more detail for the future :-)
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by orianmarx 18y ago
So one question in light of this... if you have unequal ownership do you have unequal rights in decision making?
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by orianmarx 18y ago
The first one left with no ill will. We are still friends. It's the rest of us that left in disgust :-)
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by orianmarx 18y ago
Thanks to everyone for their feedback. I'm a bit overwhelmed by the response. I've done a follow-up post to more concretely respond to some of the main threads here. http://www.orianmarx.com/2008/10/16/reflections-of-a-y-combi...
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by orianmarx 18y ago
No, the conflict points that are being discussed here a lot were not sufficiently important to stake the startup on at the time when we were faced with having to walk away. The real point was that by the time we went to Boston to meet with
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by orianmarx 18y ago
It's very interesting reading through your blog. I'm surprised I hadn't come across it before, and I'm glad you put it out there.
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by orianmarx 18y ago
Well, if it's doing some good for the greater community then I must be doing some good for myself. There are going to be a lot of people that disagree with what I'm saying in my posts and probably would want to steer clear of me. Then again
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by orianmarx 18y ago
I don't really think this is fair, but I can see why it can come across that way. I wouldn't step down as CEO to keep a team together that did not want to be together. This is not to be confused with being unable to step aside for someone w
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by orianmarx 18y ago
I am inexperienced, and I probably wasn't ready to be the CEO for this venture. It seems that a lot of people here took my posts to be me just blaming my partners, but that must be a light reading because I definitely talk about my own shor
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by orianmarx 18y ago
You know, maybe I didn't make it clear enough that I thought we had a great thing going right up to the end. But what happened when we landed YC was that a lot of stuff came to the surface that hadn't been addressed well enough before, incl
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by orianmarx 18y ago
I agree that "professional networking" is often a waste of time, but meeting other startups and potential users and sharing ideas has always been valuable to me. That's what I was trying to say by referring to "connecting" and not just "net
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by orianmarx 18y ago
Well, that really depends on what you define as value. There are plenty of tech companies out there that created tons of "valuable" code but were not successful because somebody else got the attention or was able to strike one critical deal
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by orianmarx 18y ago
Yeah I'm worried that it reads like I'm trashing my co-founders, but it's not my intent. I don't think there is any way to reflect on what you learned about what works and what doesn't work in a team environment without the some people inte
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Reflections of a YC Dropout(orianmarx.com)
155 points by orianmarx 18y ago|161 comments