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by sbraford 19y ago
Are you not moving because of school, financial reasons or other? There's often an unspoken fear about becoming a smaller fish in a bigger pond around this issue. Ever met an aspiring (like, they want to be Brad Pitt or Julia Roberts, not j
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by sbraford 19y ago
Is it stress or boredom? Finding a less stressful job doesn't seem like it should be that hard, but maybe I've just been lucky. What I've found helps is getting some (and setting some) explicit expectations up front. If your company repeat
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by sbraford 19y ago
Yeah in my experience it's been at least $350+ for the year, once you factor in all the various fees. If you want to do it all yourself you can probably shave half off of that.
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by sbraford 19y ago
The common refrain from VCs, book publishers -- anyone who gets large volumes of submissions and can only select a tiny minority is: * even attempting to respond (however briefly) to the deluge of requests would overwhelm us to the point th
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by sbraford 19y ago
Based upon empirical evidence, that would seem to be most true. Though I'm sure it depends heavily on what else is going on in the person's life at that time.
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by sbraford 19y ago
The world needs random pie throwers, even online.
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by sbraford 19y ago
This is why for a new project I just launched I'm using pageviews as the metric (it's a pic sharing site) instead of voting up/down. Each IP address can only register one unique "vote" per 24 hour period. This makes the system still vulner
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by sbraford 19y ago
Not to nit, but communities like reddit aren't really following "wisdom of crowds" model anymore, as outlined in the book. To truly obtain wisdom from the crowd, it has to be collected: a) non-sequentially (i.e. all votes are cast independe
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by sbraford 19y ago
That's all fine and dandy on the supply side of H1-Bs wanting to come over here & companies who want to hire them... But where exactly would the financing capital come from to allow all these would-be entrepreneurs to quit their jobs? I
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by sbraford 19y ago
To what, launching a startup? Anything that takes away 40 to 60+ of your most productive hours each week should be considered in the running.
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A Small Talk on Getting Big (how Twitter dealt with its scaling woes)(slideshare.net)
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America: Where Cutting the iPhone Price by $200 Results in a $1 million Lawsuit(mashable.com)
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Facebook App 'Super Wall' Worth $10 Million?(mashable.com)
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O'Reilly Report on the Facebook Platform(radar.oreilly.com)
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What does YC think of "JihadOnYou.com" ?(mashable.com)
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by sbraford 19y ago
Ok. I'll pledge mine. It would be nice to have some kind of buddy system to help encourage one another and share strategies / techniques. Current profit: ~ $3k between my various businesses.
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Social Media's Facebook App Revenue Reaches $5,000 / day(onwebapps.com)
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by sbraford 19y ago
Does the money have to be freshly generated revenue (on top of either a $0 starting amount or $X existing revenue). i.e. I have a business that generates $5k per month, saying you can use that towards your goal "in spirit" is pretty silly,
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How well do you know Prototype? (Part deux)(thinkweb2.com)
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by sbraford 19y ago
27 + BS in CS
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by sbraford 19y ago
Sorry, I think you're right. There are cases when it can slow you down overall. Adding tests up front, from my experience, adds about 40% overhead to a project. (time spent actually writing the tests) You may get some of this time back la
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by sbraford 19y ago
How many teams fail to execute and lose precious time to market debugging things that they could've caught earlier? I am not a 100% TDD fanboy either, but it's not something to dismiss wholeheartedly.
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by sbraford 19y ago
Calacanis may be a dick but he has proven himself (to the tune of $30M or whatever). I don't use Mahalo but I have no doubt he'll be able to monetize that kind of business and eventually sell out for a decent payday.
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by sbraford 19y ago
Even if you built the most perfect possible recommendation engine, it still wouldn't matter unless you were able to build a large enough user base who was actually using it. Re: ability to get recommendation engines working better, see the
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by sbraford 19y ago
Good point. It's also not the end of the world in many cases to use 2 queries (or even more if each one is blazing fast). Just check your data first to make sure you don't have O(n) where n can actually be 5,10,20+.
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by sbraford 19y ago
Imho, too many americans have had sour experiences with offshored workers or H1-Bs working here, etc. It's the language thing. Oh but they have an IQ of 160? Well that doesn't matter much when communication is hugely important in conveyin
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by sbraford 19y ago
Excellent points. Especially on #3 -- so few people I've talked to are open to working on ideas other than their own flushed out ones. "Co-founding" is more than just splitting the stock pie. It's about coming up with the vision & dire
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by sbraford 19y ago
I work with a Harvard guy who has ID in the low 300s on Facebook and also had an account on the early ConnectU. His exact quote: "ConnectU was nothing like Facebook. It was a total joke." "Spamming" or not, Facebook executed better. Also e
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by sbraford 19y ago
PG should skip the co-founder requirement on you if you can pull off the DEMO on that one.
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This machine kills fascists (pic)(woodyguthrie.org)
1 points by sbraford 19y ago|1 comments

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