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691.
by robk 13y ago
Susan introduced Anne to Sergey.
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by robk 13y ago
Susan's quite sharp. She ran the product team for ads (AdWords and AdSense) in the early days and made some pretty big moves, including pre-buying premium ad content on NYTimes and other sites to make the content network attractive to
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by robk 13y ago
These are more plausible explanations than many of the others here.
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by robk 13y ago
The talent is the same caliber across the board with the only exception possibly being new acquisitions.
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by robk 13y ago
> Assume it is collected but probably not read, but not for the reasons you gave above. There's just simply not enough manpower to read everybody's email, and it's a useless thing to try to accomplish. What frightens me is
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by robk 13y ago
>without a mercurial third party deciding what we can and can’t do. Isn't that Apple?
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by robk 13y ago
> 6 This feature is not part of Microsoft's or Facebook's or any hot-new-startup's core feature set, so there's no incentive to fix this. This seems the most relevant. Without a competitive angle, it's hard to se
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by robk 13y ago
For a hundred bucks, I'm quite pleased with the results I get. Of course if I was flagged for something serious I'd go to a doctor immediately to get it checked and verified.
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by robk 13y ago
I wonder how much of the current BTC price spike is due to new Chinese coming into the market?
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by robk 13y ago
Seems a pretty risky bargain for Prem to put $250m at risk with their cash pile dwindling day by day and likely costs of shutting down various parts of the business. If I were a buyer I'd be just sitting and waiting for them to get mor
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by robk 13y ago
was to the enterprise. When Gartner, one of the main influencers of enterprise buyers warns them to look at alternatives, they're not really much to the "enterprise" any more. http://www.crn.com/news/mo
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by robk 13y ago
To be fair, you don't make a $5B bid without having the capital lined up. It felt really scummy to have them bid up like that then include those egregious breakup fees if BB found a higher bidder.
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by robk 13y ago
Paypal gave LOTS and LOTS of people free money! You were just too young or not online in the US during the dot-com boom.
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by robk 13y ago
I agree, Maraschino seems much nicer. Although at the end of the day, I don't really think I need a HTPC manager when each HTPC app I use has a nice web interface that all play well together. For a phone, there's a nice frontend b
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Metasploit website hijacked via fax(grahamcluley.com)
60 points by robk 13y ago|21 comments
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by robk 13y ago
10 year doesn't include the 1999-2000 bubble era, 15 year does. Those couple of years were among the best periods for VC returns ever, hence any period including them will have disproportionately high #s relative to other periods.
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by robk 13y ago
Good luck getting any value from the UK police of your laptop is stolen.
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by robk 13y ago
Or just a long-term bet against individual/personal car ownership.
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by robk 13y ago
Doesn't the weak link seem to be the leadership council? Any form of power being held can lead to abuse and misapplication of funds vs direct funding.
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by robk 13y ago
Traffic growth doesn't seem to be very good: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=app.net#q=app.net&da...
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by robk 13y ago
The buses use public land because they are entitled to - they pay road tax just like every other commercial operator. It makes me chuckle seeing the SF gov't complaining about this when it really makes SF richer through property and i
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New laws muzzle K9 sniffers(bloomberg.com)
3 points by robk 13y ago|0 comments
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Tim Armstrong fires AOL employee during conference call (nypost.com)
3 points by robk 13y ago|0 comments
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by robk 13y ago
How are the bot owners flipping these reservations? I imagine there must be some commercial value via secondary market (or direct to concierges, offline), as bot-writers probably aren't actually using all these reservations themselves
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by robk 13y ago
I can't see how Sieve is significantly better than Gmail rules. Reading the examples, I seem to have the ability to do everything listed, with the exception of actually rejecting messages (versus quietly deleting/archiving).
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by robk 13y ago
It's still way too slow to tap in as people fumble for cards and the general latency between the tap and acceptance.
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by robk 13y ago
While it makes logical sense I can't help but be saddened by the further misuse of hash tagging by the clueless.
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by robk 13y ago
Either way this definitely returned the fund for USV. If this was out of their 2004 fund ($125m) and the follow-ons came from reserves from that fund, getting $281m back on say $30m of paid in capital (upping ispivey's estimate and from hi
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McAfee's Belize home burnt to ground (foxnews.com)
2 points by robk 13y ago|0 comments
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European startups battle labor laws for best talent(slashdot.org)
35 points by robk 13y ago|47 comments

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