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by rizzn 17y ago
Some of my favorite startups these days are LaaS (L for Labor) companies like Crowdflower.
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by rizzn 17y ago
They were one of several ents from TC50 that said they financed it (bootstrapped) with their credit cards, Kevin Smith style.
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by rizzn 17y ago
Video post by Robert Scoble. Guys from Redbeacon talk about their long term forecasts and marketing efforts (after the TC bump).
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Techcrunch50 Winner Redbeacon Tells Their Story(siliconangle.net)
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The Effect of Twitter's SUL on Techcrunch(newcommbiz.com)
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by rizzn 17y ago
Kevin: "I have no specific credentials to write about social media, but I did some Google searches 30 minutes ago and now I’m calling myself an expert. Since social media is new, you’ll have a hard time refuting that claim."
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by rizzn 17y ago
Problem is, it doesn't discuss much on what those savings might be, only that they exist.
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by rizzn 17y ago
My friend James Watters talks about the new markets created by something viewed as a "replacement" trend.
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The Curious Case for Impulse Computing(siliconangle.net)
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Watching the Transition of Twitter to a Datapipe(siliconangle.net)
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Larry Ellison Is Wrong on the Cloud(siliconangle.net)
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by rizzn 17y ago
Yeah, I think there's a narrower focus than what might have been originally implied. I'll let John come in tomorrow and clarify, but most of what John and I deal with are either Web startups or tech sector directly related to web (cloud, h
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by rizzn 17y ago
I can't speak directly for John - I'll let him do that when he gets up in the morning and reads this thread.... .... but if I were to interpret that sentence and edit it to better clarify meaning (which in retrospect, I probably should have
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by rizzn 17y ago
Beyond the product side of the economy, which is fascinating to me in it's own right (for some of the reasons you mentioned), the service economy around room rental, sales positions for goods and modeling services are just as interesting as
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by rizzn 17y ago
I can second that, particularly for IMVU. The economics in play there are deep and complicated on many levels.
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by rizzn 17y ago
That's a truly fascinating take - making investment look more like home banking.
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by rizzn 17y ago
This is the final draft based on the original Hacker News thread and conversation about a month ago.
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An Entrepreneurial Counter Culture is Looming – The Startup Market is Not OK(siliconangle.net)
38 points by rizzn 17y ago|34 comments
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Techcrunch50 Team Liveblog - SiliconANGLE(siliconangle.net)
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Don't Make Your Startup Look Stupid [Booth Babes and Chotchkies](siliconangle.net)
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by rizzn 17y ago
I'm looking for legitimate gripes with behavioral ad networks. I know most of the arguments from both sides about why they are necessary and why they might be evil. I'm looking for concrete examples of behavioral ad network privacy violati
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Ask HN: Have you been harmed by a behavioral ad network?(siliconangle.net)
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Three More Reasons as to Why Google Should Defend the Anonymous Cowards(siliconangle.net)
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Will Google Establish a Pattern of Cowardice?(siliconangle.com)
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IBM Predicts the Future of Physical Infrastructure(siliconangle.com)
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by rizzn 17y ago
This is where it gets above my head and into John's wheelhouse, but for the sake of humoring a VC newb like me ... ... why couldn't these lower cost deals scale out? Couldn't they make more investments at lower initial valuations rather th
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by rizzn 17y ago
Good point. There is a fat middle where value can be created in between bootstrapped and behemoth. I think he only brought it up as a sort of "this is an example of widely accepted success that could be getting lost because of this system."
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by rizzn 17y ago
Depending on your location, it sounds like the closest thing to what you want is to find a patron or an incubator/accelerator. They aren't that common everywhere, so it's probably just as effective as playing the lottery if you aren't in
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by rizzn 17y ago
Honestly, that was my problem the during two or so go-rounds ago. I had the first free podcast hosting company some six years ago, and it quickly grew to thousands of podcasters in a matter of months, seizing close to half the world's podc
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by rizzn 17y ago
Citations (podcasts and posts from '08 where I talked about it / talked with devs from Hi5 on their translation efforts): http://mashable.com/2008/04/24/hi5-podcast/ http://mashable.com/2008/05/21/hi5-crowdsourced-translation/ http://m

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