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by pfitzsimmons 13y ago
For a B2B product - identify five people to whom you can honestly say: "You would be stupid not to buy this product" These should be real people you can name - not hypothetical people. If you cannot identify such people, but think
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by pfitzsimmons 13y ago
Two of the biggest factors in our happiness are a) the quality of your job b) the duration/stress of your commute. America faces a shortage of plots of residential real estate that are within a reasonable commute of quality of jobs. An
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by pfitzsimmons 13y ago
Why don't you use QuickBase or Zoho creator? ( http://quickbase.intuit.com/ or https://www.zoho.com/creator/ )
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by pfitzsimmons 13y ago
Thanks for the reply!
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by pfitzsimmons 13y ago
Out of curiosity, why did you leave Softlayer for EC2? I am looking at hosting for a new venture. Past experience with EC2 pricing and performance has left me feeling a bit burned, so SoftLayer is among the options I am looking at.
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by pfitzsimmons 13y ago
Funny enough a friend of a friend of mine actually wrote a book with a very similar theme - "Three Parts Dead" by Max Gladstone ( http://www.amazon.com/Three-Parts-Dead-Max-Gladstone/dp/B00D... ) The bo
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by pfitzsimmons 13y ago
From skimming the original paper, it seems as if you can bypass authentication if you know certain keys that that particular dropbox client stores locally. Of course, if you were able to access those values on the local hard-drive, you lik
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by pfitzsimmons 13y ago
" I am the lone Windows user in my office. I could use a post on how to go from Mac Development to Windows. Only half kidding. " Here are some tips I wrote up on "How to Turn Your Windows Machine into Unix": http://www.patfitzsimmons.com/2
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by pfitzsimmons 13y ago
Yes, I should have mentioned the copyright issue. The Napster lawsuits were still fresh in people's memory, and I'm sure a lot of entrepreneurs and and VC's were frightened of starting a video sharing site that was so openly being used to
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by pfitzsimmons 13y ago
Well, to be sure the magic ingredient in Youtube's success was not the idea of uploading and watching videos. Many people were working on video sharing at that time (myself included). Youtube's secret was that the founders were already su
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by pfitzsimmons 13y ago
A related trick to avoid procrastination: I have often found myself procrastinating when needing to send an important, but non-urgent, email. Procrastination is often a result of fear. I realized that the procrastination came from a fear