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by puzzle-out 18y ago
I think Americans put too much emphasis on the link between freedom of speech and information and creativity/innovation. Sometimes the most explosive innovations are made during the transition from censorship to an open public sphere - such
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
I've just finished up a Phd, so missed the consumption party anyhow, but still using a two year old hp desktop and four year old mac laptop - I would repair rather than upgrade unless a new model would actually cost less than the repairs (w
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Socialise with like-minded people - I play darts a lot with friends, its a mildly obsessive game, but also a social one.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
40 minutes' time per week of an insightful active investor is perhaps on the low side, but then again, a lot can be learned in 40 minutes.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Good call. I've found that I'm using Hacker News a lot more since the downturn - perhaps a link between uncertainty and a desire for information. I'm wondering if this could be a factor in Hacker New's recent growth spurt (no puns intended)
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Your right - there were a number of people predicting this, but when you had year on year growth, their voices seemed less relevant. I was guilty of this - I went to an Entrepreneurs dinner two years back where Jim Mellon, the guest speaker
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Free-mium is a very precocious model. It is very difficult to get the balance right in service terms, namely how do you decide what to put in the premium service and not in the free one. The free-mium model has never taken traction in other
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Good writers develop through practice. If crowdsourced films gives aspiring writers the opportunity to practice their craft, then there is some justification alone in that.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Young people in the UK seem less bothered about passing their driving test at 17 - university is ahead of them, so there is no point putting money into a car - I went down this route, and am now 27 and still don't drive, and cannot see this
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
This is one of Malone's more polemical pieces, and I imagine here he is willing to sacrifice some local nuances to appeal to a wider, non-SV audience. I think his overall argument is correct - we would see more IPOs if SOX were abolished, o
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
I'm so glad the article didn't end up taking a 'social enterprise' angle. Silver was doing his stuff a long time before the concept was given a title, and hence got diluted with PR nonsense and consultancy management speak.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Microsoft has put a lot of effort into student recruitment this year. It will be interesting to see whether it continues this drive into the new year.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
I'm not sure whether the limited gov support for entrepreneurs / making computer languages for education harder analogy quite works. Namely, the latter is a taught course, therefore it needs outside quality control, whereas enterprise is mo
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
"Years ago, I went to the AOL partner's conference. I'm no runner (unless someone is chasing me) yet I signed up for the early morning run because I knew Steve Case, CEO of AOL, would be running. I ran with him for twenty minutes, almost ki
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Doesn't the objection of the b2b market to a one-man (or woman) band implicitly register a practical problem with such a set-up - namely that if the operator falls ill, the service will come to a halt. This is also a pretty big pitfall for
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
I downloaded a relatively successful IT company's accounts today. Been going for 12 years, profitable for 11, innovated product (now ecommerce platform developer) and brand, creating stable employment - 68 staff, doing 12million sterling tu
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Yep, good programmers might be expensive, but in the long-term so is the energy needed to power overworked hardware from sloppy coding.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Your typical non-IT SME tends to invest in IT after a big sale / raising new investment - as this does not happen every month, I'm inclined to agree with you Sir.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Such as contacts - introduction to social enterprise heavyweights as part of the award would build credibility and improve the success rate. The Y-C network is far more important than the start up money in the long run.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
We're a pre-commercial enterprise startup, with very limited marketing cash - so favoring open source - it could be the way to go given the b2b market's response to the downturn, with IT budgets focussed on cost-cutting rather than revenue
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
This sounds a little like being dumped along the lines of "its not you, its me."
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
My handwriting: lower case - bad and getting worse; upper case - rock steady. Thankfully most written applications ask for upper case anyhow.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
The Brits skip the lunch, gets in the way of drinking.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
This may be considered off topic, but I visited the major London datacentre last month and perhaps there is also an argument that the growth in the internet is becoming a major hardware (and resultant energy) problem. http://www.channelweb
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Not only can this guy write code, but his prose is fluent and insightful. A pleasure to read such a well written post.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
I couldn't agree more - you only realise how special the social/networking side of the uni environment is after you have left. Join clubs and meet like-minded and interesting people.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
There is a pressing need for entrepreneurial thinking into social and environmental problems - social entrepreneurs like Tim Smit of the Eden Project think the financial crisis could be a huge opportunity for social enterprise. In terms of
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
My co-founder and I have cut taking a salary from our start-up, which is angel funded. We've both taken (surprisingly well paid) part-time jobs at a local university as mentors to a group of 60 business students on an enterprise module. It'
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
The main costs of say a YC startup are living costs - in a downturn, these should drop. Raising second round funding will be more difficult, sure. But in times of trouble, people cut back on bars and stay in, and will spend even more leisur
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
If your too sensitive to criticism then a startup will be hell. Hard to generalise about entrepreneurs, but confidence and resultant tough skins are integral. If your more a creative type, then get a pitbull co-founder to take off the heat.

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