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by puzzle-out 18y ago
But more searches requires more servers in the first place.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Are you fearful of crashing and burning financially or just uncomfortable with the uncertainty of the situation? (or both) The startup scene is certainly uncertain at the moment - then again, uncertainty is its defining experience anyhow. L
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
There is a lot more happening on the enterprise/university front. My new startup took pre-commercial funding from a fund set up between a consortium of universities. I think this is a potential solution to the problems the blog author ident
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
I feel for the employees. It's a "company" - a collection of people - and other than pointing out that she hasnt met payroll at the beginning, I don't see any evidence of consideration for her staff.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Your in an interesting, slightly unusual position here. That is, the investors have approached you, rather than vice versea. Business plans are normally written for a more general audience - I would find out more about these guys' other inv
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
If you wanted any indication to show how desperate FB are to monetize, consider their aggressive introduction of invasive (and I suspect redundant) ads over the last two months. There's no master plan there - the redundancy of "users first,
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Couldn't agree more - the problem-fixing approach is fantastic for focus and motivation. My new startup follows this pattern, we're pre-commercial and the funders have got us to do market research in tandem with prototype development. I was
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
"Greenspan and friends were all major libertarians, and even Greenspan said he was full of shit." Oh well, at least that line made it worth reading.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
I get annoyed with the "start quickly, fail early" philosophy. I think it can work in certain contexts - particularly consumer web, where the engineering is often quirky and superficial - but it just does not apply for real innovation based
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
This could be pure speculation, as I don't know the details, but it seems Michael messed up the negotiations with the angel, and is trying to rectify it by negotiating you down. I'm not a hacker, more the business person, and when negotiati
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Having recently moved back to London, and experienced the world of the corporate commuter, I firmly take the line that any entrepreneurial activity that is not illegal or immoral should be celebrated. The real waste in places like the UK re
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Basically it seems the article is saying that starting a company involves risk. I agree.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
A good way to get a highly credible link is to contact your old university, tell them your story and they may decide to feature you on their news section (promoting enterprise is a big thing for most universities now). Worked for me, withi
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
The era of subscription-based consumer internet services will begin.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
I would be interested in hearing how many people are 3rd generation entrepreneurs. A number of entrepreneurial friends of mine are following in the footsteps of their grandparents, whereas the financially tight lifestyle that can come when
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
For journal access, consider some part-time lecturing / mentoring at your nearest university. I mentor a group of business students once a week, and aside from the extra money and overall enjoyment, get a university email and athens account
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
I agree the curiosity of the successful about success is fairly universal, perhaps however there is more of an 'introspection' industry due to the democratisation of success - in other words, more people want to know why/how you were succes
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
In other words, the chase is more fun than the kill. Yep that's me, although I see that kind of activity all around me - I'm not sure if I want to 'understand' something so much as experience it, and to that extent I think my ability to get
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, they don't make writers like that anymore.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Is there a link between high achievers and boredom? I get a rush when something comes together, but afterwards comes the inevitable deflation - what then?
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
I've done a bit of desk research into ecommerce userbility studies, the journal Electronic Consumer Research is the most focussed, although 80% of the articles seem to be refuting the previous one published. The remaining 20% can be insight
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
The question is: would Amazon's turnover had been even higher without the downturn? At the very least, the rebirth of the discriminate, 'rational' buyer is great news for well-run etailers, who can fully leverage the industy's low overhead
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Given how 2008 turned into the year of false predictions, I wonder how this will influence the development of predictive search? "You are looking for a new television" as a question rather than statement?
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
I'm in a similar situation, I looked at stocks, but really to make much money out of the stock market in bearish conditions, you need a hefty amount to invest in the first place, unless you go down the spreadbetting path, but that's dangero
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Lesson to learn: don't 'sell' your own company - always get a professional exit lawyer with a good track record to take care of the negotiations - it also takes off some of the stress, which is pretty substantial.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Gates' never refers to 'them' as Google - which in a funny way dramatises Google as a sinister force - I've noticed Steve Balmer avoids saying Google in interviews too, as if they feel just saying the name is giving Google extra promotion.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
I think a product's sensitivity to serving a number of different locales often has to be sacrificed during the start-up phase, as otherwise the product development could end up, well, unfocussed. I think your service would be most benefici
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Gulliver on the immortal Struldbruggs: "whenever they see a Funeral, they lament and repine that others have gone to a Harbour of Rest, to which they themselves never can hope to arrive."
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Lots of potential for personalisation - doesn't everyone prefer their own?
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Sorry, I was using 'defamiliarisation' in the context of the Russian critical readings of literature - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamiliarization - I can see how it takes on sinister overtones outside of this, and I have no idea how i

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