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by parker 19y ago
I was just reading the wikipedia entry on card counting the other day -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_counting -- if anybody has a passing interest in probability theory, this stuff is fascinating.
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by parker 19y ago
I've seen people get culled with a tap on the shoulder and a littany of basic platitudes. Seeing something like this really makes me believe in the decency of people.
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by parker 19y ago
I've thought a lot about this as well. From the outside looking in, it feels like investors would much rather fund entrepreneurs with previous successes or an existing hot product. I can't really blame them, but it makes the job of the fi
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Anatomy of an Icon: Inside the Apple IIc(pcworld.com)
1 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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by parker 19y ago
Ok, I obviously know that there's a place for niched startups in the ecosystem. But think about this guy's potential Total Addressable Market. How many videos on YouTube are personal confessionals? Let's estimate one in every two thousand,
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Brawn meets brains: Supercomputing for the masses(cbc.ca)
1 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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Emerging economies are better at adopting new technologies than at putting them into widespread use(economist.com)
1 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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Legal battle over Warcraft 'bot'(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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by parker 19y ago
Here's an entry from my comedy blog's archives that I thought some people here might enjoy... loosely based on a founder I used to work for :)...
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Crackr.com - A little Web 2.0 satire(humblenarrator.com)
1 points by parker 19y ago|1 comments
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by parker 19y ago
This reminds of me the archetype of the 'hero's journey', best described by Joseph Campbell. Which basically perfectly underlines why successful enrepreneurs are considered our contemporary heroes. Fighting against impressive odds with li
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by parker 19y ago
I once had a municipal tech incubator rep tell me that any internet business requiring more feet on the pavement to sell the product was doomed to fail. And that pretty much exactly describes why a lot of web 2.0 companies will fail, becau
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Ad Networks Are For Losers(alleyinsider.com)
11 points by parker 19y ago|3 comments
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by parker 19y ago
"TV-telephone shopping is common. To shop, you simply press the numbered code of a giant shopping center. You press another combination to zero in on the department and the merchandise in which you are interested." --> I find it fascina
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Out of Print: The death and life of the American newspaper.(newyorker.com)
7 points by parker 19y ago|2 comments
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The economics of attention (blog.oddhead.com)
3 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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Mozilla says Firefox 3 ready for prime-time(reuters.com)
24 points by parker 19y ago|19 comments
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Lost in MySpace: How a generation of children are being raised online(dailymail.co.uk)
2 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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Google's Design Guidelines(googlesystem.blogspot.com)
2 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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by parker 19y ago
This proves without a doubt that selling online solves np-hard complexity. And you don't even need a Turing Machine.
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by parker 19y ago
Dude, servers aren't a one-time expense... in accounting it's called a capital expense, and it's depreciated. Most computer technology is depreciated over a course of two years, simply because of the assumption that that expense will re-oc
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by parker 19y ago
Well, one thing a recession and resulting drop in ad revenue will do is slow down acquisitions by large public companies of small private companies that are still experiencing 'notional' revenue (ie with no business model). Startups that ar
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The Experts vs. the Amateurs: A Tug of War over the Future of Media(knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu)
1 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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Smelling Trouble Behind AOL’s $850 Million Bebo Deal(techcrunch.com)
5 points by parker 19y ago|0 comments
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by parker 19y ago
I wonder if this 'consensus' is a side-product of the knowledge that social networks have low technical barriers to entry and their current horses could be toppled in a relatively short period of time with the right market sentiment. I've s
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by parker 19y ago
I think this article's sentiments is just to point out how tech business that are given highly speculative valuations rarely pan out. Think about Facebook's implied value of $15 Billion. A traditional company is valued at about 2 or 3 time
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by parker 19y ago
My favourite part is that they're railing against Web 2.0, yet every single one of them is deep into Web 2.0 investments.
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VC confab: Please, no more social networks(news.com)
11 points by parker 19y ago|5 comments
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by parker 19y ago
A rare article on the business of the Internet from the best news magazine on the planet...
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Social networking will become ubiquitous, but that doesn't mean it's a business.(economist.com)
22 points by parker 19y ago|14 comments

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