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With Solve Media you'll never look at a CAPTCHA the same way again(nothingtosay.firstround.com)
20 points by riffer 16y ago|17 comments
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Posterous fires back at TwitPic(thenextweb.com)
1 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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Hunch Exports Taste Graph Via API, Business Model Emerges(techcrunch.com)
2 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
And finally, they didn’t expect a cent back, telling us to give all the money back to our later investors. Not once in my whole time at YC did I believe that they valued their investment more than they valued us, and they were OK with us c
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Why Facebook should work on a social graph based e-bay engine(codingplayground.blogspot.com)
1 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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Xerox-Incubated TrailMeme Launches, Reducing Real-Time Anxiety(siliconangle.com)
1 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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Twitter Insights(bothsidesofthetable.com)
5 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
Would you pay money for this?
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by riffer 16y ago
This is awesome. I love seeing what people can build in a short period of time, and you know that this was just a couple of days. Good job, Tam.
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by riffer 16y ago
Did anybody else's head explode reading this? He used a mixture of buzzwords and big company speak to say ... almost nothing.
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by riffer 16y ago
Try thinking more broadly about applications for the technology. Find a situation where there is a guy who is looking for a solution to his problem at least as hard as you're looking for a customer for the product. Don't try to convince a b
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by riffer 16y ago
You need a differentiator. You've done a lot of work to get to this point, but why would somebody use this when they are used to going to Google News or TMZ or whatever? You have to create something that is extremely compelling in some dime
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4 out of 5 hacker angels invest in Locately(gabrielweinberg.com)
16 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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Code Readability: Quick, Millions or Billions?(blog.nathanhumbert.com)
1 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
The article says peak is 17k req/sec ... (I'm impressed)
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Scaling Disqus (YC S07)(slideshare.net)
140 points by riffer 16y ago|22 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
Thus, with immediate, online transactions, the opportunity for fraudulent activity (i.e. the use of unauthorized credit cards to purchase gift cards) increases. In response to these security concerns, Tsai says Cardpool has devised a syste
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The Good Stuff Machine: My6Sense Comes to Android(readwriteweb.com)
1 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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Are We Going To Make Money In This [VC] Fund? (pehub.com)
2 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
30 years out we'll be hearing more about India than China I have that bet on, and in good size Everything we know about top-down vs. bottom-up design says that China is supposed to appear to be doing better than India, until eventually it
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by riffer 16y ago
The key is to make things that are so indispensable to your customers and/or users that they will speak up to defend you when you are attacked. In that sense, the business principle of it being better to have a few customers who really love
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Facebook testing ‘subscribe to’ user feature(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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Craigslist ‘Adult Services’ Pages Censored(nytimes.com)
1 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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Peter Thiel: There Are No Good Bets Against Globalization(hoover.org)
50 points by riffer 16y ago|48 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
And to clarify, it is evelreads that is asking you to login, rather than scribd
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Zuckerberg: “Guess What? Nobody Wants To Make Lists.”(techcrunch.com)
2 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
Google is pretty good at blocking out upcoming competitors. But do you ever get the feeling that Google knows too much about you? Has a little too much control? I use Google as my primary search, I let them read me email thru Gmail, watch
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All Hail Gmail(gigaom.com)
2 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
Interestingly, VC's still try to cherry pick I wonder why they do that. Naively, it seems like they are in the best position for a carpet-bombing/index-type strategy since they can follow-on beyond Series A with as many as work out.
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by riffer 16y ago
That's an opportunity cost, and it turns out that the main thing to understand about opportunity costs is that nobody thinks about them the right way (including me, of course).

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