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by replicatorblog 8y ago
It might soon be time for The Oatmeal to add a new panel to his famous "Digg vs. Reddit" cartoon: https://theoatmeal.com/pl/state_web_winter_2012/reddit_digg I love Reddit and have no problem with this m
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Don't Quote Me(hackernoon.com)
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It's a great point! I'm always skeptical of the "move to experiences" narrative, but it sounds like you're having success there! I think that's definitely one route to go. I'm mostly curious about how Simo
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by replicatorblog 8y ago
Apple never co-locates with a Dollar Tree store. There's a point at which Apple and other high-end retailers will decide that their brands are being diminished by being located next to an Alpaca-based clothing store. This may create a
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by replicatorblog 8y ago
I was at the Pheasant Lane Mall the weekend it opened! You are 100% right, it's decidedly middle-brow, compared to something like the Copley Mall in Boston.
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by replicatorblog 8y ago
Author here. My point is that if a mall that is by all accounts one of the success stories can only fill space with low-quality retailers, maybe the situation is more dire than we're being led to believe. I live in that area and was sh
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by replicatorblog 8y ago
Hey, author here. If you look at my submission history, you'll note vote manipulation is not my foray :) If you want a clear point, how about "At what percent of mom and pop retail occupancy do malls, even successful ones, become
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The Mall of Shame(medium.com)
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The Mythical Million Dollar Run Rate(hackernoon.com)
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Ten Years and $10,000(medium.com)
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Ten pieces of friendly VC advice for when someone wants to buy your company(techcrunch.com)
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50 Big Companies That Started with Little or No Money(hackernoon.com)
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Who wants a highly-engaged VC?(medium.com)
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Five Types of Distributed Teams(medium.com)
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by replicatorblog 8y ago
+1. My daughter was being treated for Leukemia when she developed Sepsis and hovered near death for a week in the ICU of Boston Children's Hospital, generally considered the best pediatric unit in the world. It was touch and go the who
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The Three Stages of Startup Risk(medium.com)
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Chasing Markups(medium.com)
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Disney Is Spending More on Theme Parks Than Pixar/Marvel/Lucasfilm Combined(nytimes.com)
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America, Get Your $hit Together – How I Didn’t Pull Out My Wallet Once in Europe(medium.com)
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Not every startup needs to be a “Startup”(medium.com)
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Dispatches from the Messy Middle(medium.com)
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by replicatorblog 8y ago
That's fair, but how many 45+ founders can you rattle off, who have founded companies with $10M+ in revenue?
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The “Get Rich Slow” Exit Strategy(hackernoon.com)
4 points by replicatorblog 8y ago|0 comments
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This is important. There's a big difference between getting started at 45 and founding your third company at 45. I don't think there is something biological, or even social that makes it hard to be a late-bloomer in tech entrepren
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by replicatorblog 8y ago
I've seen a lot of studies that make this assertation, but the fact that it's hard to think of many examples in the world of tech startups makes me skeptical.
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by replicatorblog 8y ago
Not the 20 best known, the 150 best known. I'd wager if you went 500 deep, you'd see the age being much closer to 30 than 45. The criteria of this study isn't bad, but I'd much rather just see a list of companies they&#x
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by replicatorblog 8y ago
Who is the most famous tech founder who was 45 or older when they founded their first company? There were more in the 70s, 80s, or 90s (E.g. Jim Clark) because the industry was still forming, but even then the wunderkind college dropout dro
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The “Get Rich Slow” Exit Strategy(medium.com)
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by replicatorblog 8y ago
If you're at all interested in a new industry, there is usually a podcast focused on that vertical where notable luminaries get interviewed. Listening to a few hours of shows, while doing chores or commuting, can get you up the learnin
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by replicatorblog 8y ago
There are a bunch of niche media sites that are seeing huge chunks of revenue coming from podcasts. E.g. the Ringer and Vox are both ramping up production significantly, doubling in the case of Vox, because the CPMs are so high. We'll

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