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by sah2ed 8y ago
Elon has said that his tweet frequency should not be construed as time spent on the platform.
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I agree with his take as well. The nature of consulting in my experience is such that a consultant will generally not have enough skin in the game, to use NNT's well-known phrase, to be able to deliver an out-sized outcome for the clie
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Nitpick. The article wrote: > Bain & Company had always preferred intimate client relationships where it could drive greater value over [more] numerous but [less] valuable relationships. I think the prepositions were swapped. Judgi
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The article provides a great illustration of how some large businesses derive value from hiring management consultants: to give legitimacy to an unpopular decision. In some cases, of course, management consultants are hired to give cover t
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Agreed. It's easy for engineers to assume because they have a deep understanding of a complex topic, that it is a good proxy for assessing general intelligence. Such assessment is a good proxy for a certain kind of intelligence only, b
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Plus the fact that they can also average your interests from information volunteered by your friends and family because "birds of a feather, flock together". IOW, Twitter followers may be total strangers to many IRL, unlike Facebo
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Shhh. Don't give their development team ideas ;)
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You are correct if you believe the term "adjacent market" represents an actual thing. If you do not believe it is an actual thing, then an adjacent market is no more real than a map is real. An adjacent market is merely just a men
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> A desert kills profit centers that could be used to attack your own profit center. Competitors can't leverage neighbor markets as an entry point, they can only attack your core business directly. Great! You are essentially proving
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The gp talked about a threat of a smartphone monopoly from Apple, a threat that never existed to begin with. The argument is revisionist at best. 1. Before the iPhone, Nokia enjoyed a large market share on mobile phones based on Series 40
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You are correct, if you believe competition in the marketplace (or the battlefield) is linear -- where enemies/competitors lunge at you in turns, one at a time. If you do not believe that competition is linear, then it cannot be true
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Agreed, the book does a solid review of the underlying principles. They gave an example of how Intel used their AGP standard as part of their commoditize your complement tactic except they characterized it as maximizing the value of your
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> One example is using Android to prevent a monopoly on the smartphone side. If Apple had a monopoly or near monopoly, it would be able to extract larger economic profits from the other links on the value chain, including Google Your exa
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The problem with this argument is that it is a gross simplification of reality. Terms like "market", "nearby market", "niche" etc are all abstractions the same way a map is an abstraction of an actual territo
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Several things can be complements, it just depends on how you perceive them. In Netscape's case, their strategy shifted from selling web browsers to consumers in the hope of commoditizing the OS [0] to selling more web servers to busin
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This article illustrates why I agree with criticisms [0] of Michael Porter's five forces framework as being incomplete without the sixth force -- threat of complementors seeking to commoditize an industry. [0] https://en.wik
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by sah2ed 8y ago
FWIW, the expression "create a desert of profitability around you" is more popularly expressed as "create an economic moat".
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The effect works by showing a NSFW image if the referer is detected to be HN. To avoid the effect, you need to open links to jwz.org in a private window.
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That's an especially apt quote from 1911 by Alfred North Whitehead. https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead
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I think you meant to write "town crier" instead of herald [0], though its wikipedia page does mention herald in the "See also" section. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_crier
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That's because the late fee wasn't set high enough. Set it to something really high like $600 [0] and parents' behavior will change, problem solved :) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15753206
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> There’s no government at all without politics. That's a pretty loaded statement that I disagree with because it presupposes that man has only being organizing his affairs for centuries when we both know that mankind has existed fo
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So, step 0 would be having real-world experience building a viable business, which Musk gained from Zip2 and PayPal.
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Not necessarily. Tesla was originally founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003 before Musk joined as chairman and major shareholder in 2004. Musk became CEO out of necessity since he was already CEO of SpaceX. Being like Musk
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Optimism is a good outlook to maintain in life, but lets not kid ourselves as to the real purpose served by politicking. "Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for priva
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Your observation sounds like what Daniel Kahneman described in his book: Thinking, Fast and Slow as the peak-end rule [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%E2%80%93end_rule
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Desirable domains are by definition scarce -- there is not enough of them to go round to those who desire them. The current approach is essentially saying "if you really desire domain X badly, put your money where your mouth is".
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I remember reading somewhere that they were trialing payments in a bid to monetize small businesses that have come to depend on their platform to reach customers. I believe this was in India or so. Anyway, they clearly are taking payments a
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The Implicit Association Test (IAT)(implicit.harvard.edu)
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by sah2ed 8y ago
You can do better than this. The OP mentioned 7 hours ago that they had already watched this video, last week. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16949765

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