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by ryanlchan 15y ago
Or, start investing while people are getting nervous. Honestly, while the tea party is strong, my feeling is that the majority of the Republican party are somewhat reasonable conservatives who actually like having an economy. They'll use th
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by ryanlchan 15y ago
Management consulting will give you a great view of the problems a company has in the industry. It probably won't give you a great lens on problems the industry as a whole are having trouble dealing with. As you can imagine, consulting fi
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by ryanlchan 15y ago
I've actually started regressing away from PowerPoint back into the 'chalk talk'. There's something incredibly powerful about being able to draw the idea in front of an audience which makes your presentation just that much more sticky, espe
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by ryanlchan 15y ago
Google's been starting to eat a lot of smaller start-ups' lunches recently. Google Music encroaches on Pandora's turf, and Search by Image can only be bad news for Tin Eye. I'd be curious to see how they respond. Edit: Actually found Tin Ey
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by ryanlchan 15y ago
Smart play: Pandora's launching their IPO before the other big players start moving. With Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player coming into the market, Pandora's trying to get their offering done before competition gets fierce. Feels like Gr
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by ryanlchan 15y ago
My outlook on this comes from a quote attributed to Steve Jobs: "When you're the janitor, the reasons matter. But somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, the reasons stop mattering." Your job as the CEO is to make sure work gets done, re
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by ryanlchan 15y ago
>I'm never starting another business where everything isn't self serve, automated and done at the beginning. Isn't this the exact point which the article argues against? Perhaps the problem was really that you couldn't work out a good m
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by ryanlchan 15y ago
I believe that Google uses a similar development methodology with Chrome to separate the channels out. Everyone works on the Chromium trunk, and features are enabled/disabled depending on which channel they are appropriate for. Single trunk
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by ryanlchan 15y ago
This, combined with a polite [EOM] tag, makes subject-messages much more rapid than writing a full email. I have much more rage at people who type e-mails with nonsensical subject lines that are just as long than their body content. Would y
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by ryanlchan 15y ago
Is this the beginning of companies using web 2.0 tech to solve 'big problems'? Watson might be the first step towards using the social graph and big data for things other than selling more widgets. I'm keen to see how medical professionals
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by ryanlchan 15y ago
Buy a stiff spring mattress then put a thick memory foam topper on it. You won't notice the difference between it and the $3k+ Tempurpedic mattresses and you'll spend a lot less.
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by ryanlchan 15y ago
Interviewing works. But not for every situation. Do we really believe that the big consulting companies or banks don't know how to filter for the better candidates given how much their business depends purely on having the smartest people?
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by ryanlchan 15y ago
I think Microsoft has a master plan. Skype and VoIP in general have all kinds of potential synergies with current MSFT products, difficult to materialize as they may be. Remember that they just put out an incredibly powerful 3D camera calle
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by ryanlchan 15y ago
I honestly expected to pay for this until I hit 'Get the code' and saw a github page. Simply making the website aesthetically pleasing increased my willingness to download and pay by an order of magnitude. Even now I'm looking for a donate
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by ryanlchan 15y ago
NASA's budget was cut by $241M in 2011. Makes you wonder sometimes.
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by ryanlchan 15y ago
tl;dr: It lists conference speakers and their decks, organized around Twitter handles.
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by ryanlchan 15y ago
Imposing timing on meetings is irrelevant at best and destructive at worst. The real reason these Agile, Googlesque meeting techniques dictate a time is to force attendees to prioritize. You can't dick around in a 15 minute meeting. However
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by ryanlchan 15y ago
I'd take that even a step further: Google's been trying to unify Android across its mobile platforms, but why stop there? Why not bring this to desktop? And what better way to unite the desktop and mobile than through the browser and the cl
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
I'm going to echo the 'real lawyer' advice. It's really not that expensive - your first consultation is likely free, giving you the ability to shop around to find a firm that you trust. With the right lawyer and a boilerplace incorporation,
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
Absolutely yes. Much like doing a startup in the valley brings a hoard of intangible benefits, so does attending a great university. Being surrounded by peers who are dedicated to learning and having a supportive environment which encourage
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
This is incorrect. The 5% fee is actually charged in addition to Amazon's fees. (see https://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq#WhatFeesDoesKickChar ). This doesn't make much of a difference in profitability (20k vs 50k still isn't a whole lot),
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
Paywall bypass: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/0...
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
I've always wondered why gamification wasn't integrated into things beyond web apps. Gamification is a concept, a lens through which we can enact persuasive design - there's nothing in there that says its web specific. Lots of Web 2.0 conce
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
Simple, cleanly designed, and cuts through all kinds of annoying paywalls. And it works from anything with a browser; not just iDevices. Couldn't get any better.
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
This is a great strategy, well argued, well reasoned, but it's, to quote the article, 'so 2007'. Single function is great if you're trying to appeal to business people who have no other need than email, but that's becoming increasingly rare
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
I agree, but for entirely different reasons. Android will win for one reason alone: China. There are 900 million people with cell phones in China. It is currently and will continue to be the biggest cell phone market on the planet. However,
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
Don't forget about your future customers (You do plan on having customers, right?). They are often the people who want you to succeed most while demanding nothing but product in return.
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Your customer segments aren't needy enough(prefunder.posterous.com)
2 points by ryanlchan 16y ago|0 comments
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by ryanlchan 16y ago
Wow, go to bed for a bit and suddenly HN has a riot. I wrote this post. It is, hopefully, clearly satire. Furthermore ironic due to the fact that I have been, in fact, a technical cofounder. I'm just tired of the overwhelming sentiment on H
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Stop looking for nontechnical founders, go get an MBA. It's easy(prefunder.posterous.com)
43 points by ryanlchan 16y ago|39 comments

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