rjurney

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1. 901.▲
   by rjurney 17y ago

   Anyone got a good JS map chart?
2. 902.▲
   by rjurney 17y ago

   Frankly, I'm having trouble taking either of you seriously. The comment was a silly one, but clearly the ego of Paul Graham cannot handle jest that compares YC unfavorably with the invention of the wheel.
3. 903.▲
   by rjurney 17y ago

   You get paid up front, so this was your Phase II award - based on the fruits of your Phase I? I take it this was a lot more money than the Phase I then?
4. 904.▲
   by rjurney 17y ago

   Yeah, why would you need to hire a publicist? Use the tubes.
5. 905.▲
   by rjurney 17y ago

   Thanks, now I at least sort of know what the hell is going on.
6. 906.▲
   by rjurney 17y ago

   Outside of software.
7. 907.▲
   by rjurney 17y ago

   While its true that they only accept proposals that have technical risk, its also true that in SBIR at least, they don't do pie in the sky stuff either. Iterative improvements only. Federal research investment stimulates private research i
8. 908.▲
   by rjurney 17y ago

   Its a silly comparison to make in the first place. The goal of SBIR is to give out a certain portion of the federal budget to small business. Its a great program. As to ROI: federal funding for R&D provided the entire basis for the ea
9. 909.▲
   by rjurney 17y ago

   Wow, this makes SBIR/STTR look damned efficient :)
10. 910.▲
    by rjurney 17y ago

    For most agencies, it has to be something they're interested in, and it has to constitute basic R&D, one step past the state of the art. Check the current solicitations and see if there's a fit.
11. 911.▲
    by rjurney 17y ago

    DARPA birthed the Internet. YC birthed reddit. I guess the jury is still out.
12. 912.▲
    by rjurney 17y ago

    If you're located outside of a startup hub, taking the week or two to apply for a $100,000 Phase I SBIR grant - if there is one relevant to what you are doing, is a smart move. If you know your subject matter, it is not that much work, and
13. 913.▲
    by rjurney 17y ago

    What about the customer development methodology urged you to make poor architectural decisions?
14. 914.▲
    by rjurney 17y ago

    Because short term thinking mode is the mode you SHOULD be in until you have something people want? That cycle is not long - get out there and see if people are interested. Dying for it? Proceed to next step. Not dying for it? Iterate.
15. 915.▲
    by rjurney 17y ago

    Its not unspoken. If you actually read the book, he talks extensively about market types. So do most of the presentations. In fact, these guys are the first people to actually talk extensively about market types and how they effect strat
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    by rjurney 17y ago

    Ok - but they're also the same people that click the little button to plant a tree to offset their carbon footprint for the plane ride :) Products are driven by people's concerns, and so concern about the environment is a good thing - it im
17. 917.▲
    by rjurney 17y ago

    Cool, I'll look again. Thanks.
18. 918.▲
    by rjurney 17y ago

    I needed to do pattern matching to pull data out of many different formats, then clean the data before processing it. We were parsing radio station song feeds, and the data is varied, chaotic and often unavailable. This was also a port of
19. 919.▲
    by rjurney 17y ago

    Then we were crawling for different purposes - imagine that! :)
20. 920.▲
    by rjurney 17y ago

    This is true - looked at making a very concurrent webcrawler in Erlang, and the regex bit was painful.
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    by rjurney 17y ago

    People who concern themselves with turning the water off while they brush their teeth also buy more fuel efficient cars, take public transportation, insulate their homes more efficiently, etc. The market responds to make the expression of
22. 922.▲
    by rjurney 17y ago

    I bought this at Book Buyers in Mountain View a few weeks ago. Its entertaining. They had a few copies, if anyone wants one.
23. 923.▲
    by rjurney 17y ago

    They did. Rock on!
24. 924.▲
    by rjurney 17y ago

    An open Linkedin API.
25. 925.▲
    by rjurney 17y ago

    Y2K in a different number system - at least we're consistent in prophesying apocalypse.
26. 926.▲
    by rjurney 17y ago

    Social map of the #asw3 hashtag: http://seadragon.com/view/fvf
27. 927.▲
    by rjurney 17y ago

    Been playing around with Drew Conway's scripts he demo'd at the bay area R meetup at linkedin last week - saw it here: http://www.meetup.com/R-Users/calendar/11202074/ Files to do this yourself are here: http://www.meetup.com/R-Users/fil
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    Social Map of #asw3 Hashtag - Atlanta Startup Weekend 3(static.camura.com)

    2 points by rjurney 17y ago|1 comments
29. 929.▲
    by rjurney 17y ago

    Some fishes are ok, right?
30. 930.▲
    by rjurney 17y ago

    Probably not a coincidence. There's noticing, and then there's noticing ;)