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by sachinag 17y ago
Andrew, I'd really like raw transcripts for all interviews. It was really nice to have.
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by sachinag 17y ago
If Brad Feld wanted to encourage entrepreneurship, he'd be bothering his Congresscritters about healthcare reform for 47 million uninsured, not making a special path to citizenship for a handful of people. Yes, we lose some startups because
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by sachinag 17y ago
Back in the day, they assumed that [x] number of workers would die and worked that number into the calculations. The St. Louis Arch, for example, assumed 13 people would die. Thankfully, we don't put such a small price on human life any m
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by sachinag 17y ago
I think that's only sometimes true. There are a number of well-written proscriptive essays where the author chooses to ignore paths that proved fruitless during her time drafting the essay. Furthermore, even personal essays can leave out
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by sachinag 17y ago
Essays are planned; papers are stream-of-consciousness. Readers can't follow the internal machinations of a particular writer's psyche; while you can have a revelatory essay, you still need to plan it. My best example: Woolf reads like str
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by sachinag 17y ago
Work, life, sleep: choose two. This is different from college how?
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by sachinag 17y ago
But can't you do the mapping for every service? Even Posterous lets you do that - for free.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Cute design ideas still require some semblence of competent execution. The "lines" are completely random. Of course they're going to be arbitrary, but at least try to be thematic about it. It's missing the AbeBooks acquisition, which is a
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by sachinag 17y ago
This is the difference between skeptical adults and students who've read Ayn Rand and think they've figured it all out. Well done.
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by sachinag 17y ago
I'm a bit surprised that they only have 40K users since SXSW. I mean, it's 1) a really great app and 2) "won" SXSW. There are certainly things I'd change about it if I were the PM, but only 40K users is a bit scary given how good the data
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by sachinag 17y ago
I scorn the Snuggie because those who own one are poor consumers. The Slanket is the better buy. "Get the Slanket if you're serious about staying warm while lying on your couch... Nobody anywhere should buy the Snuggie." (From Gizmodo: h
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by sachinag 17y ago
Yeah, I wish someone had told me this before. I just didn't know. However, one of the great benefits of Valley representation is the intros you can get to investors. Those investors tend to be local. Thus, the best situation is to be whe
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by sachinag 17y ago
EveryBlock already sold to MSNBC. Based on Adrian's note about trying to keep the site alive ( http://blog.everyblock.com/2009/aug/17/acquisition/ ), I have to assume it was a buy/hire.
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by sachinag 17y ago
This made me happy.
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by sachinag 17y ago
At this point, my costs are sunk. There's no real benefit to moving pre-emptively - unless I can find a full-time developer who wants to jump into Dawdle. Then I'd move anywhere in the lower 49. (Sorry, Alaskans.) Yeah, I've been saying
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by sachinag 17y ago
Not being web-based is most definitely in favor of Chicago. Here's a story that I think illustrates everything about Chicago: so a group of people decided to form a new angel group ( http://www.hydeparkangels.com ). Got a lot of people tog
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by sachinag 17y ago
I think it's different for an established company like Matasano where 1) there isn't the financial risk to the paycheck that characterizes a new startup (pre-funding) and 2) everyone around someone is working 60+ hours. The culture's alrea
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by sachinag 17y ago
Yeah, but Brad Feld led Feedburner's B round. Matt McCall had to go to New World Ventures because he couldn't raise a fund at Portage. You can do anything anywhere, but your odds of success are much, much better on the coasts. The lawye
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by sachinag 17y ago
But you explicitly have a commercial activity you can do with that CD: you can resell it. You can resell it so much that there's even a special term for it: "first sale doctrine". No one has a problem with me re-selling my car or a treadm
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by sachinag 17y ago
Summary: "Should you buy Mac OS X Snow Leopard? If you're already running Leopard, then the answer is a resounding 'yes.' If you're still running Tiger, well, then it's probably time for a new Mac anyway. When you buy one, it'll come with S
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by sachinag 17y ago
I'm not sure why this was downvoted. Kingdom Hearts is the only easy place that Disney can exploit Marvel characters before 2017, given their outstanding deals with Activision and other publishers.
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by sachinag 17y ago
You can have leverage without debt through the use of options and other derivatives. The leverage is the systemic structural issue, not the notional amount of debt.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Well, we have some decent regulators. The issue was one of regulator-shopping. You've got AIG, the world's largest insurer, under the Office of Thrift Supervision exactly because AIG bent the rules to qualify for OTS oversight. Reading
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by sachinag 17y ago
Figure out and adapt a fundamentally different legal structure and this issue goes away. The cost of writing a law full of loopholes that allows hedge and PE funds to "look" like VC funds is higher than the added costs to firms like Atlas.
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by sachinag 17y ago
But they also declined to distribute Kids. Disney has a line, and it's likely before some stuff that Marvel does do.
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by sachinag 17y ago
This is bullshit. Here's actual data: http://www.businessweek.com/table/08/0305_h1b.htm More (I don't know the source, but seems correct): http://www.myvisajobs.com/Top_Visa_Sponsors.aspx Lookit, a lot of the H1-B slots are being take
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by sachinag 17y ago
This is a consultative sale. Also, in academia, you're going to have very long sales cycles. If I were you, I'd try to find a half-time independent sales rep and I'd have one hell of a website. There's absolutely no way that cold-calling
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by sachinag 17y ago
I thought Clamato was primarily a Mexican thing for Chelada (you can get pre-mixed Clamato and Budweiser in Mexico and Mexican areas in Chicago and other cities). I thought you Canadians were better than that. shakes head
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by sachinag 17y ago
What's crap is that AdSense's TOS say that you can't run someone else's context- or content-sensitive ads. So you can't run both AdSense and whatever Yahoo/Bing/whoever has. If you could, stuff like this would be a great boon, not an auto
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by sachinag 17y ago
The issue is that respondents may start addressing their comments to nerf such a change. Instead of: "You're forgetting something", you may get: "tdavis, you're forgetting something."

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