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by portman 16y ago
You mean these terms? http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html Here is "content" being used to mean "everything that's in an app": "The Application Provider of each Third-Party Product is solely responsible for that Third-Party Pro
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by portman 16y ago
What would a "content-free" app look like? Aren't all apps, by definition, based on content? I'm not meaning to be cute or trite -- I'm genuinely confused from the press release which category of apps will fall under these new rules. Which
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by portman 16y ago
"All we require is that, if a publisher is making a subscription offer outside of the app, the same (or better) offer be made inside the app" -- http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/02/15appstore.html By this rule, all apps that offer
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by portman 16y ago
And by the way, the ownership table that is linked to isn't even CORRECT. Not even remotely. Sinofsky isn't listed, and just 2 weeks ago he reported 737,000 shares, which would make him #4 on that list. [1] Ray Ozzie has just under 1 millio
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by portman 16y ago
Blatantly off-topic, but... Matt, you are everywhere . I'm amazed that you have time to actually do work , let alone sleep, considering how prolific you are on blogs and forums. It gives me the Warm Fuzzies™ to know that an actual human b
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Groupon pulls all SuperBowl ads in response to controversy(emoney.allthingsd.com)
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by portman 16y ago
FYI, this is a link to a comment , not to the story. It can sometimes take 20+ seconds to load the comments, so here it is for anyone who is having trouble: "when groupon called me and wanted to run a http://socialprintshop.com deal, th
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by portman 16y ago
+1. At all of the companies I've worked (where I've been privy to compensation numbers), the PMs consistently earn less than the engineers. From my experience - I'm basing this on approximately 80 positions at 4 different companies - PMs ar
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by portman 16y ago
Bar chart of the results: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58785/2175588.PNG
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by portman 16y ago
"all they have to do is show up for three more years" That's a lot harder than you're making it sound. (Or maybe my sample is skewed.) I personally know one person who has walked away from millions and know of another half-dozen. "Phoning
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by portman 16y ago
I can think of no other Internet company that was so far (a decade?) ahead of its time. I loved that damn product so much. This has nothing to do with the thread, but I just want you to know that you had at least one rabid fan from 1994 - 1
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by portman 16y ago
"eventually offering $100 million for the company plus an earnout of $25 million to be paid over four years" Terms, terms, TERMS people. I can't believe that with 40+ comments there isn't more discussion of the terms. It could have been $
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by portman 16y ago
Good for you. I recently removed TechCrunch from my RSS feed, and I haven't missed it for the last two weeks. I was trying to find a feed that let me exclude certain authors, but I ended up ditching everything.
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by portman 16y ago
I believe the minimum spend for this service (Account Executive) is $10,000 per month. Google also assigns account managers at similar spending levels. However, I have to agree the Facebook's account managers are far more helpful than Goo
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by portman 16y ago
This analysis completely ignores the cost of time in switching. For me personally: SendGrid is completely transparent to my application since it's just an SMTP server. SES is a web services API, so I need to either (a) rewrite my app to t
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by portman 16y ago
This is a great example of the rule that "there are no rules". Here is the ordered list of Post-IPO ownership for "Officers & Executives", a category which includes founders as well as execs brought on between founding and IPO. Mi
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Apple's Embarrassing Predicament(blog.yafla.com)
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by portman 16y ago
This is great. I hope that 2-3 years from now we see large numbers of "designers in residence" at VCs and incubators. See also Jason Putorti's gig (now over) at Bessemer: http://www.bvp.com/team/Jason-Putorti.aspx
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by portman 16y ago
"One thing big blogs don’t do is buy traffic." If it's true that there was an unwritten code amongst bloggers not to advertise, then that is a silly and outdated rule.
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by portman 16y ago
The Quantcast metric you're referring to is 80 million unique US people per week. Facebook's number is the number of global active users.
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by portman 16y ago
"Amazon gets to set the price on your app. Developers only get to recommend. Certainly original." This is how the vast majority of retail products work. The manufacturer suggests a retail price, but it is up to the retailer to determine w
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by portman 16y ago
You're right; I thought they had created a new entity when they went public, and retained the partnership as the parent of the C-Corp. But you're correct, there's only one entity, and the 511M shares represent both stockholders and (former)
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by portman 16y ago
I remember when Goldman Sachs went public in 1999, only 12% of their shares went public. The remainder stayed with the partnership. I'm not sure (or able to quickly find) the current ownership, but it's certainly not ALL publicly traded.
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by portman 16y ago
"And don't give me that crap about VCs being "early stage" and wanting to cash out of a "mature" investment. These people are as money hungry as any other institutional investor, and would let it ride unless….they saw something that sugges
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by portman 16y ago
Did you feel like there wasn't enough outdoor space? Comparing this (via aerial imagery) to working on the Microsoft campus in the late 90s, it seems like Sun campus is mostly indoors, as opposed to the "college" feel of Microsoft or Google
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by portman 16y ago
No, you may not. The relevant sections of the tax code are in Pub561 and Pub526. Basically: the IRS would consider your custom website to have a FMV of $0, because it couldn't be sold to anyone else. If you made a genuine software tool that
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by portman 16y ago
Not sure if it's still as good as it was in the early 2000s, but http://www.idealist.org is a wonderful directory of NPO and NGO volunteer opportunities.
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by portman 16y ago
They're attempts to phonetically sound out the acronym. FNMA = Federal National Mortgage Association = "Fannie Mae" SLMA = Student Loan Marketing Association = "Sallie Mae"
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by portman 16y ago
"Other than the ability to make video calls to a computer/laptop" The number of device that you can make video calls to increased from ~10M (iPhone4 and iPod Touch 4) to ~1000M (internet-connected PCs, notebooks, and netbooks). So if the
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by portman 16y ago
Sorry for being so dense, but who is wrong: Daring Fireball or SEOMoz?

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