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Analysis: Plaxo and Friendfeed, pushing the feed(venturebeat.com)
13 points by paul 19y ago|1 comments
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by paul 19y ago
Or maybe they would have distracted startup B and they would've both failed. Doing everything really isn't an option, so you had better pick the one thing that really matters.
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by paul 19y ago
Sorry, I wish I had the answer. Even with our resources, it's still difficult. The sad thing is that there are a lot of great people out there working away at bad jobs. One of the things I try to accomplish with my my blog is to convince th
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Paul Buchheit: Building a great team(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
12 points by paul 19y ago|6 comments
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by paul 19y ago
If there's this huge pool of untapped talent out there, then there must be a huge opportunity for a new company to come in and hire them. The fact that so many startups are struggling to find good people suggests that this isn't the case.
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by paul 19y ago
The question should probably say, "are you happy with Xobni?" That said, the feedback from this kind of thing can be surprisingly useful. You get a feel for the general mood of your users, and learn what the common pain points are (unhappy
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by paul 19y ago
I get a login box in an iframe. Google's SSO is badly broken these days. I have to login to view "public" albums on picasa, even though they are public and I'm already logged into Gmail.
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by paul 19y ago
There seems to be a common assumption that building things for people in SF is a mistake. Targeting early adopters is not bad -- almost by definition, your first users will be early adopters. The important question is: Is this something tha
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by paul 19y ago
Festivus is for the rest of us.
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by paul 19y ago
What Xoogler? http://www.mobissimo.com/company/founders.html
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by paul 19y ago
_Works_ is better. "Functional now" beats "theoretically great but not quite usable yet".
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by paul 19y ago
Nuclear fusion does work. This is just about capturing the energy :)
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by paul 19y ago
The shoreline area of Mountain View (where Google is located) is largely old landfill. There are still some flaming methane vents around (or there were a few years ago).
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by paul 19y ago
Some analogies are like bananas.
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by paul 19y ago
So what would you do if you had your $2E6?
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by paul 19y ago
How much money do you need before you can be happy? (or find out how to be happy)
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by paul 19y ago
Those "standard of living" comparisons are silly and misleading. It's better to just calculate your actual expenses (as others here have done). I'd much rather live off of $60k in SF than $28k in St Louis.
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by paul 19y ago
Money is nice to have -- did I say otherwise? Or are you arguing that there ISN'T more to life than money?
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by paul 19y ago
Money is nice, that is true, but freedom comes from the inside. Many rich people are still slaves. Also, more money doesn't always mean more freedom. Most people simply dig in deeper when they get a little more money. They buy a bigger hous
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by paul 19y ago
The offer sounds fair. If you're excited about the people and the company, then you should take the job.
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by paul 19y ago
Income is not the important factor. The problem is scaling up before they have traction. Read pmarca's blog posts on "product/market fit" to understand.
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Product Management and that Pesky Computer Science Degree(nelsoncheng.typepad.com)
2 points by paul 19y ago|0 comments
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by paul 19y ago
I guess we should have warned everyone :) There's quite a bit of good advice in the presentation. One thing that I didn't see mentioned though is the difference between load-once and reload-on-every-page. Many of the worst JS abuses are fro
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by paul 19y ago
Anything that can be free, will be free.
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by paul 19y ago
"Maybe it's time Steve Jobs stopped thinking quite so differently."
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by paul 19y ago
$ crontab -e */3 * * * * curl -m 5 http://myserver.com/ping.txt > /dev/null 2>&1 Maybe I'll get their IP address at least.
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by paul 19y ago
"As a side note, a little known fact is that when I was at Friendster, I found a small company out of Harvard that we came very close to acquiring, a startup no one had heard of that time, a company named The Facebook."
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by paul 19y ago
Ad targeting.
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by paul 19y ago
It would be interesting to see the results using Google's TCMalloc. http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html
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by paul 19y ago
I'm curious what you would consider a "good" argument (not isomorphic with trolls) argument against your statements in this thread? Perhaps I'm misreading, but many of your comments come off as essentially dismissing the Ron Paul phenomenon

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