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Yahoo May Sell Small Business Unit (including Yahoo Stores f/k/a Viaweb)(practicalecommerce.com)
1 points by sachinag 17y ago|0 comments
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by sachinag 17y ago
I don't think anyone disagrees with that. The point of the analysis is to answer the question "if you're a team that has identified a promising market and looking to build a product, where should you be?"
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by sachinag 17y ago
Don't forget that this data excludes angels. My feeling is that CA companies tend to get way more seed/startup money from angels than do MA companies, where firms like Flybridge, Atlas, etc. do early stage investing.
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by sachinag 17y ago
I've told the story before: when I was a VC, a deal almost fell apart because the California Secretary of State rejected the new articles of incorporation after the funding. They didn't like the voting structure for some bizarre reason. In
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Which States Have the Best Startup Environments?(sachinagarwal.com)
38 points by sachinag 17y ago|20 comments
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by sachinag 17y ago
If you don't understand that it's an epic troll, right down to the race/gender roles, you probably need a business co-founder/are a redneck/think FoxTrot is the best thing evar/etc. etc. EDIT: It would only have been more epic if they follo
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by sachinag 17y ago
We're trying to build that perfect market for used games at http://www.dawdle.com . No, seriously, we have market orders and limit orders (we call them StandingOffers). The best cite was an OMX report that $1 billion in U.S. new game purc
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by sachinag 17y ago
You know, if Yahoo actually took advantage of the fact that people have multiple accounts on its service, some active (Flickr, Mail), some dormant (delicious, upcoming), and really fucking figured out a coherent user profile strategy, they'
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by sachinag 17y ago
If you can legally work in Canada, you're insane if you don't try to get into this program. $150K - 10x what YC does, but still with buy-in from top-tier US VCs? Eight months to just get to ramen profitable (not paying back the $150K)?
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Bootup Labs(bootuplabs.com)
10 points by sachinag 17y ago|5 comments
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by sachinag 17y ago
Here, actual proof - from an MIT economist - that health care is hurting entrepreneurship. Money quote: "Americans who have an alternative source of health insurance, such as a spouse’s coverage, are much more likely to be self-employed th
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A Shot in the Arm: How Job Lock Hurts Entrepreneurs(washingtonmonthly.com)
24 points by sachinag 17y ago|34 comments
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by sachinag 17y ago
You know, I'd try this, but the hard part is that the processing is still on me (and I can't code, so I'm SOL). That, frankly, is the hard part, is it not?
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by sachinag 17y ago
Um, the fact that there is a HOWTO tell the difference tells me that there isn't really much of a difference in real-world visual impact. Sure, Helvetica kerns a lot better than Arial, but the vast majority of people don't see the differe
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by sachinag 17y ago
Depends, actually. If you're familiar with Dave's AARRR, referencing "pirate metrics" is enough to have a conversation with many, many people. It doesn't describe the content in a literal fashion, but as a name for something to be discuss
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by sachinag 17y ago
It makes me physically sick that they have to rebut the accusation that archiving blog comments and other UGC is "a secret, sinister plan to catalog the activity of individuals on all social networks and capture personal or private informat
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by sachinag 17y ago
Found via PEHub: http://www.pehub.com/50745/atlanta-georgia-startup-killer/ The paper itself isn't quite as strong as the PEHub headline, but I'm pretty sure that's how the authors are selling it to the press.
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Why 40% of Tech Startups leave Atlanta in Three Years(pehub.com)
4 points by sachinag 17y ago|2 comments
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Equinox (Magnolia's Back)(ma.gnolia.com)
1 points by sachinag 17y ago|0 comments
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by sachinag 17y ago
Dude, you've been taken advantage of. You did all the hard work; while your friends may have brought the idea to the table, they're not invested the way you are. Your friends are the assholes who give "business guys" (like me) a bad name.
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by sachinag 17y ago
My sister is getting her PhD in learning and memory research, and specializes in how kids learn (and she has her teaching cert), and her experience matches mine: teachers hate being told there's something new, young, and better. If they
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by sachinag 17y ago
Honestly, I don't get the whole "Yahoo has neglected products" meme at all. The new homepage is an improvement; the new SERPs are a huge improvement; the new Yahoo Mail is pretty good (although I still prefer Gmail); Yahoo Sports is awesom
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by sachinag 17y ago
Seriously - this is rather interesting. Looks like proof of the whole "there are no new ideas, only execution" maxim.
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by sachinag 17y ago
While I applaud your initiative, I cannot believe that teachers would feel comfortable using something made by a single person who just graduated/will graduate? high school this year. You can keep your name, but I'd recommend taking out yo
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by sachinag 17y ago
Actually, that's what makes it better. The argument against Tom Brokaw's Greatest Generation isn't that those WWII heroes were so special; it's that no one generation could be. I could have been more precise with a modifying phrase such as
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by sachinag 17y ago
I'm skeptical that some groups of people are inherently braver, smarter, or harder working than others.
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by sachinag 17y ago
You're available for freelance work and there isn't a link to a page where you talk about your experience, your capabilities, and your rates in your profile? This is a huge, huge pet peeve of mine: if you are a freelancer, you must have a
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by sachinag 17y ago
I think the sign that I've earned some technical person's respect is when they ask me "why don't you just learn how to code?" Look, you have to be wired a certain way to be good at code. I'm pretty smart, but I could study and take classes
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by sachinag 17y ago
He wants to see other VCs wind down their living dead companies because it's bad for the asset class? Sell your stake to the founders for a dollar. You still write off the whole damn thing, and the founders get to continue on if they want
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by sachinag 17y ago
For a simple premium model with a 30-day free trial, you've got two reasons not to ask for the CC info until you're going to cut off someone's access to the premium product (you want to maximize the number of prospects, especially as a new

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