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by portman 15y ago
>> "how often do insiders get their stakes cashed out" While this used to be the exception, it is starting to become the norm. The technical term is "secondary". Fred Wilson has been doing a great job chronicling the rise of these
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by portman 15y ago
BTW, I found that interview very enlightening. I hadn't realized how nice you are. Your real-life persona completely contradicts the caricature I had developed in my mind after years of reading your essays. I was expecting Vulcan (hyper-s
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by portman 15y ago
Or Amazon.com Amazon lost $3 billion over 8 years before they started turning a profit. [1] It's HARD to tell the difference between Iridium and Amazon. That's why some investors make money and some lose money. [1] http://www.slideshare.
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by portman 15y ago
Possibly prompted by PG's interview with Charlie Rose last week on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. I was present, and a two things were clear from the interview: 1. Charlie Rose had a few wildly incorrect assumptions about YC. (e.g. "so, to da
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by portman 15y ago
Note that this does not import your friends' EMAIL ADDRESSES. Might be just be, but I find the pitch a little bit deceptive: to me, "Friends to Gmail" implies that you can subsequently email those friends.
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by portman 15y ago
I'll be interested to see a longitudinal study in 6-12 months. FogBugz is a complex B2B product fueled by recurring revenue (either subscriptions or maintenance). It's not diet pills or a self-help book. Most (all?) companies find that the
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by portman 15y ago
>>*"they just raised $660 million dollars out of the gate in this IPO" No, that's not how it works. LinkedIn priced their IPO at $45/share, meaning they raised $352.8 million. The share price right now has no impact on how much mone
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by portman 15y ago
Zing! Fair point. But "video game" != "the web". I tend to view HTML5 applications as closer to a traditional desktop application than a web site. Local storage has some advantages over server-based storage (latency, privacy, etc), while th
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by portman 15y ago
Here's what excites me about Angry Birds in the Chrome app store. None of this exists yet, but it could: - If I install it on one computer, it installs on all my computers - Purchase the Screaming Eagle in-app, using Google Checkout - If I
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by portman 15y ago
100% concur. My kids seem to have developed a sixth sense for when I'm deep in thought on a particularly hard problem, and will usually pick THAT EXACT MOMENT to gang up on my wife. In unison, all 3 will have temper tantrums, causing my wif
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by portman 15y ago
I have several female friends who work from home and watch their children. I'm not sure any of them would recommend their lifestyle, but they make it work. The key seems to be about 3-4 hours of at-home childcare assistance per day . As
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Ask HN: How to author animation like today's Google Doodle?
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by portman 15y ago
The typography is hard on the eyes. - Large blocks of italicized text are hard to read in any font - Low contrast between font color and background color - The single, narrow paragraph (i.e. "Android" section in particular) is hard
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by portman 15y ago
Can anyone shed light on this statistic from the press release: "With 170 million connected users..." Every article on Skype for the last 3 months has mentioned "600 million accounts". ( http://www.google.com/search?q=skype+600+million+ac
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by portman 15y ago
And here's the press release, confirming the $8.5B pricetag. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2011/may11/05-10Cor...
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by portman 15y ago
>> "So now only users with Javascript enabled can use your website. " It's easy to measure what percentage of your users have JavaScript disabled. For a consumer website, it's probably measured in the hundredths of a percent . If
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by portman 15y ago
These were in 8 different computers in 8 different people's houses (friends and colleagues). So something specific to my environment is not a factor.
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by portman 15y ago
A couple of additional points about my abysmal 8/8 failure rate: - These were in 8 different machines in 8 different locations. - 7 were in desktops, 1 was a laptop - All were running Windows - All purchased from NewEgg - Most o
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by portman 15y ago
>> may be swap memory That's very interesting. I've had a swap file on all of my SSD systems. What makes you think that could be a culprit?
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by portman 15y ago
By way of example... A couple of years ago, my buddy and I made a parody site "Woofer" -- like Twitter, but with a 1400 character minimum per 'woof'. We tried to buy the domain name woofer.com. We tried rent to own. The owner wouldn't bud
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by portman 15y ago
You're right. Their Internet subs are seeing 10% Y/Y growth, but their video subs are flat. Looking at the last 3 years, it's unlikely that Comcast will report any major uptick in video subscribers during their next earnings.
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by portman 15y ago
Correction: now larger than any cable company was last year . The latest subscriber numbers from Comcast [1] are from September 2010, for Q3 2010, when they reported 22.937M cable video subscribers. It's conceivable that Comcast has been g
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by portman 15y ago
Meta-question: How do you include two different links (pdf/scribd) in the submission URL?
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by portman 16y ago
Newly created accounts.
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by portman 16y ago
>> and you both need to be contributing equally all the time You lost me there. My wife and I have a 50/50 split on life, but we don't both contribute equally "all the time". Sometimes one of us will go out to dinner with friends
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by portman 16y ago
>> which takes like a day to get approved Which bank did you use? My experience has been that if you're doing ANYTHING other than e-commerce, it's a long uphill struggle. I've tried Chase, B of A, and Wachovia.
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by portman 16y ago
1. Go to lawyers.com 2. Find a handful of (3-4) bankruptcy attorneys near you 3. Schedule a free 30-minute consultation with each of them It sounds like you're insolvent, and that your student debt is causing "undue hardship", which has bee
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by portman 16y ago
Aha, that makes sense. And yes, some quick Googling turns up several papers that talk about the Roche limit for a black hole and a star being well outside the black hole's event horizon. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=
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by portman 16y ago
IANAA (I am not an astrophysicist) but isn't the accompanying image very different from what actually happens when a star crosses the event horizon of a black hole? I thought that when an object crosses the event horizon of a black hole, to
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by portman 16y ago
How much is it growing by per day? That's more important than the total volume of data. The strategies for these situations are very different: - 500TB growing by 1GB per day - 500TB growing by 1TB per day In the first case, it'

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