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by pkaler 17y ago
Odeo had enough cash flow to work on their second idea: Twitter. According to Cruchbase, Twitter has 83 employees. That is pretty tiny with respect to the number users that they have. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twitter
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The Gowalla case is a little more complex than that. The parent company is Alamofire and their Facebook App PackRat has about 50K users, too. http://alamofire.com/
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That's not completely true. Atwood misrepresented Gruber. Read this part of the email thread: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2008-Marc... Gruber states that he doesn't have time update Markdown and forks should be cl
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The way that Atwood quotes the mailing list is irresponsible. Please read this message: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2008-Marc... 1) Gruber states that he doesn't have time to update Markdown. 2) Gruber states that a
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You don't have 6 months of work that you wish you could do on your idea? Take FogBugz, Trac, Basecamp or whatever project management software that you use and spend about 30 minutes to add absolutely every task you can think of to execute o
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I work out twice a day. It's the best way I've found to keep myself sane and productive. I've never taken any drugs but I'll sleep 10+ hours a day or get ridiculously jittery if I don't. And I've also found that I am most productive if I
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Square footage of office space is a step function. You have to move office space whenever you outgrow your current office space. It's the move out and move in process that is expensive. That's usually why companies jam employees together.
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The Apple ][ fundamentally changed the personal computer. The Macintosh fundamentally changed operating systems. Pixar fundamentally changed the film industry. The iTunes music store fundamentally changed the way music is distributed. The i
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It was the This Week In Startups podcast with Matt Mullenweg as a guest.
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Scribd was seed funded by Y Combinator. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/scribd
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Google AdWords has a policy against "Negative option or unclear billing practices". There is also a section on "Support advertised prices, discounts, and free offers." http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/static.py?page=guid... I'm g
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A rising tide raises all ships. I think this announcement is great for Carbonmade. For example, I heard of online invoicing when I came across Freshbooks. However, I did some research and went with Harvest. I think people will see Haystack
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Check the buyer's guide. Probably an update to the Mac lineup. http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
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The product manager should also be doing some Kano Modeling and figuring out the ROI on features. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_model They should also own the metrics dashboard. They should now exactly which features are driving whic
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It's most likely Mercurial based on this job posting here: http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?5419 And this comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=374429
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If you really want to FIX this, offer up a viable structured alternative to aggressively pursue their business. I believe it's called TechCrunch50.
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I like that article. But I actually get designers to construct UITableViewCell in Interface Builder. It works out better than creating cells programatically and leaves the design work to actual designers.
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Apple Acquires Placebase: The Big Picture(parveenkaler.com)
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That's hosted as a Posterous private post. One of the founders in the video should probably claim that account now that the post isn't really private anymore.
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There is a very vibrant startup community here in Vancouver. Check out: http://launchpartyhq.com/ http://bootup.ca/ http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver http://www.newmediabc.com/ http://www.techvibes.com/index/vancouver
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Maybe it's because: 1) His blog posts and presentations make people happy 2) His blog posts and presentations focus on aesthetics 3) His blog posts and presentations observe the culture code Wait? Where have I heard this before?
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C++/CLI was originally developed by Microsoft and then standardized by ECMA. OpenCL was originally developed by Apple and then formalized by the Khronos Working Group. So, it kind of depends on your definition of proprietary.
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Show of hands. Who is using Scrum at their startups?
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As for taxes, I was paying taxes in California, so the difference in total taxes is really not that much. Plus you get free healthcare. The healthcare benefits I get from my employer on top of government healthcare really goes above and be
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You want to build an advisory board. A lot of startups build a board of advisors even if they take money or not.
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I worked with Nick on that project. And the pictures were more than just about framerate. It was a reminder that we were all a team and that we were all working very hard. It humanized the problem and really made everyone aware that we had
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30 lbs in 45 days. Impressive. I've dropped about 30 lbs in the last year and need to drop the last 10 lbs or so. I would love to know how your exercise and diet look like today.
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Smart companies commoditize their complements. Google commoditizes software and builds moats around search and advertising. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html This isn't about altruism. This is smart business.
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I don't want to be protected. I want to be informed.
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Yes, exactly. Swearing is negative because of my perception. That doesn't make it correct or incorrect. And Apple is doing me a service when they rate those type of Apps as 17+. It's not censorship. It's about letting the consumer know

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