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by parker 18y ago
Sure, you can subscribe @ http://feeds.feedburner.com/ChompChompDead Feedburner may have its faults, but I still find it very useful.
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by parker 18y ago
Thanks for the feedback -- it's funny, I showed my design mockup to a bunch of designer friends, and they all said take the borders/boxes off of things, and leave as much white space as possible :). As for colour on the site, I deliberately
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My side project: an open-sourced comedy community
27 points by parker 18y ago|33 comments
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by parker 19y ago
>> hearing day after day after day about quick "exit strategies" on news.yc has been very depressing I'm not a huge fan of hyperbole. Care to back this up? I don't think news.yc is obsessed with ripping people off... what part of
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by parker 19y ago
Just curious - did you guys put a reserve on that auction?
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by parker 19y ago
I think it's all about understanding a) what creates human pain, b) how much pain it creates, and c) how difficult it is to ease that pain. A lot of people have problems understanding what humans would actually find useful. If they've iden
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by parker 19y ago
In Canada right now I'd have to say the hottest area is Montreal, with Vancouver and Toronto on a second tier. There's more momentum and innovation going on in Montreal, and some interesting early-stage funds have opened up there. Toronto
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The charmed life of Amazon's Jeff Bezos(money.cnn.com)
3 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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by parker 19y ago
Skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, feedback -- these job characteristics sound a lot like what an entrepreneur craves. What if they key to enriching a normal job is to make it more entrepreneurial?
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Job Enrichment: how to make a job un-boring(edweb.sdsu.edu)
5 points by parker 19y ago|1 comments
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Wikipedia takes business approach(news.bbc.co.uk)
3 points by parker 19y ago|1 comments
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Bridging the Gap, the Sequel(nytimes.com)
2 points by parker 19y ago|1 comments
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by parker 19y ago
You bet Paul, check out #3 on the following link: http://www.fitzblog.com/bid/2082/Seven-Startup-Lessons-from-... I generally shy away from the numbered list blog format, but this is a classic read IMO.
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by parker 19y ago
I agree with your point here. Some ideas seem so radically out of touch, that they actually are out of touch. The founder of Intuit once said that 'your competition isn't other companies, but the way things are done now'. Some companies
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by parker 19y ago
When building the userbase of a site I managed, I found that the largest growth periods were caused by events largely out of my control: the attraction of social super-nodes. First, someone started participating who had a massive following
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The press becomes the press-sphere(buzzmachine.com)
1 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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by parker 19y ago
I'm not adding value to NBC's bottom line by watching their television program?? It's called ratings. On the internet, we call them page views. Either way, I think the equation is changed fundamentally when labour does not need to be ince
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Research Reveals Internet "Black Holes"(dailytech.com)
7 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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by parker 19y ago
dude, you're confusing the concept of 'effort' with the concept of 'labour'. The fact remains that I go to Flickr for purposes of entertaining myself, not for purposes of performing work.
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by parker 19y ago
I'm sorry, but saying that when I use sites like Flickr for free I'm lending them free labour is like saying I'm an employee of NBC for watching TV.
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by parker 19y ago
I would postulate that a funding or acquisition event depends on meeting a key person or having a key external event happen. Making something people want, however, is not dependant on any external event. It's really not just luck. If you
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Economy Has Become a Drag on Silicon Valley(nytimes.com)
1 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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Yahoo seems headed the way of PeopleSoft(marketwatch.com)
3 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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The Frustratingly Unfulfilled Promise of Google Gears(blogs.pcworld.com)
13 points by parker 19y ago|8 comments
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by parker 19y ago
John Lennon - turned songcraft into the most powerful political tool possible William Shakespeare - will anybody ever reach greater heights of understanding about the human character? Terry Fox - when was the last time you ran across Canada
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How William Morris and other Hollywood agencies are getting into tech startups and investing(venturebeat.com)
6 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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A SaaSy SAP vs. Salesforce debate: Is Benioff overestimating his platform?(blogs.zdnet.com)
2 points by parker 19y ago|1 comments
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by parker 19y ago
I like the service, but I think the name needs a non-generic angle. Not some crap like swifflr.com, but something that lets me know that it's a sports site without even going to it. Other than that, it's clean and focused.
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by parker 19y ago
>> I suspect that if a VC tried a new model (focusing on sustainable growth and revenue/profit), they'd find that they'd have a healthier portfolio that was largely illiquid. Well, if VCs were to concentrate on sustainable growth an
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by parker 19y ago
I've actually made this observation myself. Some products will be consumed by a wide audience, making them more like media. Some products will provide a targeted service, making them more like traditional software. It's crazy to think eit

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