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by ozziegooen 15y ago
I'm not very familiar with corporate management salaries, but these kind of seem silly. Example: Mark Pincus made a 300k salary in 2010, what may be a 100% annual cash bonus, plus quarterly bonuses of "$22,500, $0, $75,000 and $37,500, "
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by ozziegooen 15y ago
If it's estimated to cost $1.61 billion to achieve emulation by 2024, we should spend $160 billion and get it done by 2016. I'm skeptical, but a technological singularity is not to be underestimated.
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4 Problems with Startup Weekend (and how to fix them)(tumblr.com)
1 points by ozziegooen 15y ago|0 comments
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by ozziegooen 15y ago
In the beginning validation is more important than maintenance. A one-week project is kind of the equivalent of a developed Lean landing page; it's just there to see if the idea will begin to stick.
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by ozziegooen 15y ago
If you really have some innovative developers, you could try to do what Odeo did :)
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by ozziegooen 15y ago
True, but I'm even more skeptical about the the Venture Capital firms they assume will appear.
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by ozziegooen 15y ago
It takes a lot more than 10 billion euros of infrastructure to create a Silicon Valley. Else, China would have about ten of them by now.
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by ozziegooen 15y ago
Several remedies have been brought up already. Every day there's a blog post about what America must do to become "more innovative", and none of the recommendations are taken. While the details are important, I believe that the first thing
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by ozziegooen 15y ago
Kind of makes me think that another Silicon Valley outside the U.S. could be great for the U.S.
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The Best Way to Encourage U.S. Innovation(holono.tumblr.com)
7 points by ozziegooen 15y ago|6 comments
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Wikipedia is done. Now What?(holono.tumblr.com)
3 points by ozziegooen 16y ago|0 comments
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by ozziegooen 16y ago
Competition is only real when a significant number of your potential customers know of it. It sounds like a relatively small percentage of people know of mindbodyonline (obviously the groups you have talked to haven't). So the only danger
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by ozziegooen 16y ago
Peter Drucker has claimed the lack of Middle Managers to be responsible for the early declines of Ford and Edison Electric Company. Their presence itself isn't a failure, it's their role and management.
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by ozziegooen 16y ago
"In the 19th, with trains, they reached 60 mph. In the 20th, with jet aircraft, we could travel at 600 mph. Can we expect 6,000 mph in the 21st?" The 21st century still has 90 years left in it. We have no idea what technologies will emerg
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by ozziegooen 16y ago
So, "The idea is to empower people, let them take risks and give them more authority over decisions," and yet, "The reorganization also puts Page firmly in charge of Google and its performance in much the same way Steve Jobs runs Apple.".
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by ozziegooen 16y ago
Not all of Africa is corrupt and politically unstable. It's a pretty big place.
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by ozziegooen 16y ago
I'm frustrated that so many VCs want to make a "Next Silicon Valley" in New York, Chicago, or another part of the U.S. The rest of the world needs one significantly more.
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by ozziegooen 16y ago
I appreciate that comment, but don't like how many up-votes it got. From my experience with Hacker News, the comments with the highest rankings are usually those that point out another post as stupid, instead of those that give valid infor
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by ozziegooen 16y ago
These problems have nothing to do with software. Every major company that makes innovative products have had this issue for the last few hundred years. That also means that ways to fix or prevent it have been researched extensibly. It's d
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by ozziegooen 16y ago
Some good quotes from the comments: "I personally know two women got promoted to be managers, not because of their performance, but because they each is a higher manager's mistress. In short, Microsoft's is a fear-based culture. How could M
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by ozziegooen 16y ago
It seems like most of Microsoft wants Steve Ballmer to make a major change to Microsoft. I'd really like to see him follow the "New Detroit" idea and announce a major re-thinking of the company. But, I'm sure he won't. They'll complain, h
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by ozziegooen 16y ago
I've been working to create a more portfolio approach with Holono (see: http://holono.com/ ). Even if LinkedIn works for resumes, resumes just don't work well for a lot of people. They summarize huge technical projects into a few sentenc
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by ozziegooen 16y ago
Please let us know if you find someone. If this post can't convince a technical cofounder to come on board, then no one else has a chance.
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Applying the Funnel concept to tech development(tumblr.com)
1 points by ozziegooen 16y ago|0 comments
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by ozziegooen 16y ago
That's a good idea. We were trying to decide between importing content from Github, scraping PDFs/word Docs, or importing from another site. Right now we were going to try to figure out who the first users were going to be (and what they w
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by ozziegooen 16y ago
Thanks! I've gotten a fair bit of negative feedback on the homepage and am looking to re-do that completely soon. We'll work to add Twitter auth soon, and maybe Google soon after. I would have changed it before submitting to HackerNews, bu
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Rate my startup: Holono, showcase your projects and build a portfolio
4 points by ozziegooen 16y ago|9 comments
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by ozziegooen 16y ago
"I'm a presenter. During high school and college I've done several presentations on different topics, all of which received good grades." I've done the same, but I'm not sure if I'd consider myself a good presenter. If you've studied the is
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Entrepreneur vs. Feedback(youtube.com)
2 points by ozziegooen 16y ago|1 comments
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by ozziegooen 16y ago
New: Obama says U.S. Senate will Tax Wikileaks and New York. (Will this article also work for Hacker News Points? Also, why is "York" highly likes but "New" isn't?)

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