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by panabee 10y ago
you could be right. i only started thinking about OD with this thread and have no inside information. that said, a marketplace seems like the ultimate ambition for two reasons. 1. one co-founder is a VC who previously led a marketplace busi
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by panabee 10y ago
what's the dream business model of every VC? a marketplace. the ideal outcome, though perhaps improbable, is likely to become the ebay of real estate. what they lack is critical mass. today, they're focused on seeding the marketpl
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by panabee 10y ago
Entrepreneurs often share startup ideas and hear, “Isn’t X doing the same thing?” This is actually the common case as only one company can claim the first-to-market mantle. It’s natural to feel discouraged or wonder if the window of opportu
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by panabee 10y ago
how about watching people talk? talk shows are some of the more profitable programs in television, but all you're doing is watching people talk. oprah built a whole media empire on talk shows. entertainment is in the eye of the beholde
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A Scenario Where Brexit Does Not Actually Happen(qz.com)
100 points by panabee 10y ago|105 comments
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by panabee 11y ago
many websites, apps, bots conceptually share the same goal: to let users interact with a database. they represent different ways to read and write company data, and as such have different strengths and weaknesses. websites, for instance, ar
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by panabee 11y ago
your conviction is awesome. good luck! mind sharing some of the decentralized apps you're building or believe are better with ethereum?
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by panabee 11y ago
in the USA there are about 160M people with credit cards. for a preliminary model, let's assume 10% value privacy or have enough transactions where privacy trumps rewards/protections. assuming the startup captures 50% of this mark
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by panabee 11y ago
can you please elaborate on why they don't have to pay ACH fees?
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AWS Lambda Makes Serverless Applications a Reality(techcrunch.com)
55 points by panabee 11y ago|52 comments
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by panabee 11y ago
Not to mention killing ads kills the primary revenue source for its primary competitor. (90% of Google's revenue in 2014 came from ads.) Though to be clear, Apple isn't trying to nuke all ads. It's just trying to steer people
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by panabee 11y ago
Precisely. One strategy for addressing this in the near term is to create more tools and products for partners/distributors like Yahoo and HuffPo to find and present interesting tweets for their audiences. Twitter can't curate eve
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by panabee 11y ago
Twitter owns unique and compelling content. Lots. Yes, there is lots of junk, but there is also lots of junk on the web. The challenge is surfacing and distributing great content, and this is where Twitter should focus: maximizing reach and
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by panabee 11y ago
If their goal is to maximize the odds of innovation, not minimize the odds of failure, which path would you advise? And please share more Sun stories. These were entertaining and informative. It should have been Sun leading the cloud revolu
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by panabee 11y ago
Awesome insight and backstory about one of SV's iconic companies, so thanks for sharing. Maybe the new Alphabet structure, despite similar failures at Sun and other tech companies, is the best option for maximizing innovation even thou
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by panabee 12y ago
why linode & aws?
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Ask HN: What services and software do you pay for?
10 points by panabee 12y ago|13 comments
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by panabee 12y ago
google has been apple's greatest competitor for a while. apple has > $160B in cash. mobile bing is comparable to mobile google. the strategic value of weakening google seems to far outweigh the financial value of defaulting to googl
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History of Silicon Valley: Profiles of Apple, Oracle, and Other SV Giants(scaruffi.com)
1 points by panabee 12y ago|0 comments
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iPad: The Microwave Oven of Computing. Truly New Devices Create New Use Cases(techinch.com)
2 points by panabee 12y ago|0 comments
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The Fragile Dominance of the NFL on the TV Industry(theatlantic.com)
1 points by panabee 12y ago|0 comments
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The Truth About Convertible Debt at Startups and the Hidden Terms(bothsidesofthetable.com)
7 points by panabee 12y ago|0 comments
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by panabee 12y ago
It would be pretty wrong. Which is why that wasn't the statement. :) Especially for services like transportation, which are commoditizing faster than they're not, removing the need to create accounts and enter credit cards increas
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by panabee 12y ago
Apple Pay is focused on easing consumer pain and friction, leading to more competition among service providers and retailers since trying new services will become easier for users.
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by panabee 12y ago
Yes, though unlike the App Store, this will take much longer to unfold since there is so much infrastructure out of Apple's control. But Apple Pay should galvanize the payments and commerce industries, eventually leading to much greate
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by panabee 12y ago
One reason Apple Pay matters for developers and startups is it erodes a key advantage of leaders and incumbents. By dramatically reducing the friction around account creation and payments, Apple Pay makes it much, much easier for consumers
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by panabee 12y ago
One implication of Apple Pay is it erodes advantages of leaders like Uber. Minimizing payment and account friction means trying a new service becomes much easier.
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by panabee 12y ago
how many over-bidders does it take to start distorting home prices? obviously this varies by region, but curious if there are any general ratios, i.e., 1 over-bidder per 20 home listings, that help gauge the effect on home prices when new m
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by panabee 12y ago
he lists four: teespring, zenefits, stripe, and optimizely. anyone know the fifth?
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Ask HN: Where are you hosting images and what are you paying monthly?
9 points by panabee 12y ago|6 comments

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