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by pclark 16y ago
So now whenever someone with a successful past history does something moderately contrarian, people are just going to recite the banking collapse? "Rebecca Black signed onto the same record label as Miley Cyrus, I think the label knows what
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by pclark 16y ago
Why would you see what they need $40m from when you are on the outside looking in on a single product? Seriously.
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by pclark 16y ago
Developers are not cheap.
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by pclark 16y ago
The very fact you wouldn't know what to do with $40M is why you couldn't raise $40M, and they could.
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by pclark 16y ago
Hmph. If nothing else, posts like this are terribly offensive to the entrepreneurs that dedicate their lives to products like Color. Did anyone consider that maybe Sequoia, who have invested in companies that make up over 10% of the NASDAQ
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by pclark 16y ago
A domain is an asset, why would it be worth notably less after a few years if the startup were to fail?
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by pclark 16y ago
because supporting additional browsers usually doesn't require an entirely new code base, compared to mobile platforms.
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Banned article about Jay-Z's great champagne robbery(hyuninc.com)
20 points by pclark 16y ago|5 comments
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by pclark 16y ago
I pay for: Dropbox, Spotify, Last.FM, CloudApp, Certainly Spotify and Dropbox are no brainers "need these to live" expenses.
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by pclark 16y ago
Most techcrunch articles make it to the front page. As does most news about YC startups.
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by pclark 16y ago
To use those interesting statistics and come to the authors ridiculous conclusion further reiterates my personal opinion that if women in tech had an issue with how they were perceived, they'd start companies rather than roll of the eyes
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by pclark 16y ago
Presumably they rule the Internet because you'd be labelled sexist if you claimed men ruled the Internet.
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by pclark 16y ago
Warfighting by the US Marine Corp is actually a very great book for entrepreneurs to read: http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/service_pubs/mcdp1.pdf
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by pclark 16y ago
Does apologising before criticising someone's creation make you feel less guilty about doing it?
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by pclark 16y ago
I read the post as implying that all entrepreneurs are chasing mega hits whereas some may prefer, or be better suited towards, lifestyle businesses. " ... to the advantage of almost every player in our industry that we “believe” in chasing
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by pclark 16y ago
This post saddens me. Startups should aim larger, not smaller. That is, in my opinion. The blog post (which I am interpreting as "every entrepreneur wants to raise VC and swing for fences") is generally wrong, in my experience. For every
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by pclark 16y ago
This reminds me of jedc and his MBA research about startup accelerators and how, and more importantly, when to clone. His #1 point was: > You need to be unique, where unique is not just a seed accelerator in a different city Imagine K
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by pclark 16y ago
It's interesting that in the end Airbnb raised from Sequoia, I wonder if lots of other VCs passed. It possibly shows why Sequoia are the best.
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by pclark 16y ago
"Other people do not think about you nearly as much as you think they do"
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by pclark 16y ago
I meant for me personally
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by pclark 16y ago
Why doesn't the url change as you browse? For one thing, means you can't go back in the browser.
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by pclark 16y ago
post a "review my startup" on hacker news
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by pclark 16y ago
Dropbox and Airbnb are two of the most revolutionary products (alongside the iPhone, 802.11b, etc) I have ever used. These two companies, amongst others, are the answer to when people challenge that no "world altering company" will come fro
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Massive global demand for Springboard slots in Cambridge(businessweekly.co.uk)
2 points by pclark 16y ago|0 comments
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by pclark 16y ago
It seems somewhat strange if a degree is required for the startup visa - is that the case?
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by pclark 16y ago
I would dispute that open source software was easier to use for the majority of products. Agreed about Skype for Linux, mind.
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by pclark 16y ago
neither of those have network effects, they can thrive in oligopoly markets, I think that communication is a winner takes all (ironically why you want it to be an open standard, but such is innovation from startups)
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by pclark 16y ago
Guh. I go to download Ekiga to see how it compared to Skype, and on Mac they want me to download source and compile it? Seriously?
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by pclark 16y ago
The sad fact of the matter is most people do not give a hoot about software being open. I honestly do not think you stand a chance competing against Skype, it is so insanely great and wide spread. I'd be impressed if they can actually mak
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John Doerr, Twitter, And The Rise Of Secondary Private Markets(businessinsider.com)
6 points by pclark 16y ago|0 comments

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