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by padobson 15y ago
From the Times article: this one has the distinct advantage in that it has technical savvy and adequate capitalization to get started. Gotta feel bad for the guys who provided the "inadequate capital" to the earlier companies that never h
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by padobson 15y ago
I don't want to rain on anyone's math geek parade, but is there a practical use for discovering primes? Is there any use beyond crunching giant numbers for theoretical physics and knowing a certain number can't be divided - or is this just
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by padobson 15y ago
Venture Capital is a game shooting for the 10x. To get the 500mm valuation, Instagram had to convince its investors that a $5B exit was a possibility. So a lot of smart people were able to justify a higher valuation than what they just got.
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by padobson 15y ago
Zynga, Groupon, LinkedIn, and Pandora all come to mind off the top of my head. I'm using your definition of app in that the app can be hooked up to a very large social network and thus employ network effects.
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by padobson 15y ago
I don't know, probably a bad habit extending from the mm. Don't have a good reason. Edit: Changed it to single, capital B's now.
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by padobson 15y ago
You can definitely see why this deal got done. Instagram was maybe 3 or 4 years away from any chance of their own IPO, and probably a year away from a serious $2B aquisition. Even if the sale price of the company was really $2B, they were a
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by padobson 15y ago
I'm not a huge photo-sharer, and I certainly don't claim to be an expert on the space, so forgive my ignorance when I ask if photos is really a billion dollar beach head - a 1% of Facebook billion dollar beach head. Did Facebook simply look
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by padobson 15y ago
It may take you or me only 10 seconds to install python on Windows, but my students need my help for every step. Even if I tell them to get up and I do it myself, it's still 10s X N students to get everyone up to speed. Compare that with ze
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by padobson 15y ago
Seems like a pointless list to me. They're just listing the CEOs at the hottest companies. Anybody that could have a chance of working with them directly is being pursued by the companies recruiters already. An entry level guy at Amazon or
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by padobson 15y ago
Big +1 from me. Entrepreneurship is not complicated nor is it necessarily difficult to execute. This article is way too specific on what it is (a technology startup game that requires outside investment for success). The alternative to entr
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by padobson 15y ago
I show them SSH and they need another app for that. Same for Ruby, most local dev servers, etc. and then every mundane command for me turns into twice the work for them because they have to do what I'm doing plus whatever extra steps plus
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by padobson 15y ago
Small investors are fucked from the start This has always been the case. The stock market, corporate bonds, land trusts, and any other investment made by a person who isn't an expert in the field is just putting their money into a big bla
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by padobson 15y ago
This could be incredibly useful for full stack developers that need to do mockups quickly, or have clients that are constantly calling them and asking questions like, "Can you build me something like $data_driven_webapp_dujour". If your cli
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by padobson 15y ago
ABC - Always Be Curating. A successful social network is always going to have a lot of content you don't want. That's why you need to be filtering the sources of that content constantly. Quora is an interesting case because it plays nicely
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by padobson 15y ago
The presentation skills that you can learn in a few college-level communications classes are invaluable for getting noticed and being taken seriously. Your comment highlights this.
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by padobson 15y ago
But the vast majority of us simply don’t work as well if we drive ourselves too hard. And the vast majority of startups fail. I agree with the premise that you can never be too old. Even if you have a family and a mortgage, you're really
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by padobson 15y ago
I think its in the sense of one, individual need. An oil change with one guy working on your car for 20 mins costs 1/4 as much as 4 guys working on your car for 20 mins (minus supplies).
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by padobson 15y ago
It seems to me there's still a problem at the point of data collection. Not all +1's are equal. This algorithm needs to be paired with another algorithm that weights each plus one according to each user's ability to plus one something that
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by padobson 15y ago
Yeah, it kinda does, because, you know, its my scheme.
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by padobson 15y ago
It's not about censorship, it's about targeted advertising. Google doesn't offer up adsense ads for maxi pads because it knows I'm a man.
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by padobson 15y ago
You're absolutely right that the passive TV peg shouldn't be forced into the active entertainment hole. However, when I'm watching a sporting event, I find myself looking down at my phone or tablet and looking for reactions from my favorite
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by padobson 15y ago
The best way I’ve come up with is to think of a startup as an experiment, not as a business. This is the key take away. If you're doing an experiment, you're doing it to learn something and prove some hypothesis. The only thing that shoul
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by padobson 15y ago
The future of the living room is absolutely rooted in some form of forthcoming disruption. However, no one has meaningfully disrupted TV since the 80s when cable, video tapes and game consoles all hit mass market appeal at the same time. If
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by padobson 15y ago
Sneider later tweeted that he’s been hearing the film will follow Jobs’ story up until his return to Apple in the ’90s, but won’t focus on his later years. Production is scheduled to begin in May. What a waste. This story has been chronic
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by padobson 15y ago
I found him too. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20560722/seunicorn.png
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by padobson 15y ago
This is exactly why the 6th Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees the right to face your accuser. "in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right…to be confronted with the witnesses against him" It's harder to accuse
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by padobson 15y ago
+1 - Nothing like being able to show a client who's got a billion dollar idea that his site can handle 10M users for $15/mo. Just remember to explain all the caveats that are being discussed here. We're nothing without out integrity. Your c
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by padobson 15y ago
I do not. I believe wholeheartedly in Mark Cuban's advice here: "The first step to getting rich is having cash available. You arent saving for retirement. You are saving for the moment you need cash. Buy and hold is a sucker’s game for you
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by padobson 15y ago
I use sudo su - <username> pretty regularly when I'm working on servers. I have a dev box where I do initial deploys of all of my apps, and each app has a different username with different configurations to run/debug the app. sud
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by padobson 15y ago
I don't think I could disagree with this more. You absolutely can't listen to what your mom says . But you can absolutely validate your product with what your mom does . Does she use it everyday? Does she complain about this feature or th

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