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by semerda 12y ago
Cheers for sharing. Why didn't you guys focus on a mobile product vs rehashing stuff from a decade ago? Imagine a version of Facebook's AppLinks cross linked with your Call to Action. That would have been a big problem to solve. T
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The listed shortcomings all sound like features that over time should be developed by Twitter. Assuming those features are value adding. This reminds me when Google Analytics stormed onto the market. Many analytic companies expired. Those t
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Voted. I don't agree with the definition since most businesses are working to solve a problem where solution is not obvious esp guarantee. Also if the revenue is anywhere in few mil then I wouldn't call that a startup. A startup i
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Ditto. A lot of the stuff that happened back then cannot be repeated again. That secret sauce is no longer available and/or was a 1 time advantage. However the positive psychology, attitude to getting stuff done & domain experience
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Positive psychology advise like "always be looking forward" and "embraced change or become stagnant" is great for newbies but those that already get it are looking for business advise like "execution strategies&quot
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Ditto re app telling me of surge pricing. Maybe the app has a corner case bug or even A/B testing (weird version of it) is being executed. Either way Uber should look into it and sort it out.
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Yes an MBA is worth it. Especially one through a good school. Education teaches you discipline and foundation skills. I cannot begin to describe the importance of both. The former is super important in productive people and the latter will
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I would say a "startup" is a a company trying to find a business model that is scalable & repeatable. I would go as far as argue that a startup is any company pre Series funding i.e. seed. Series A funding investor expectation
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by semerda 13y ago
Looking at some of the links on this site to supposed "stock photos that don't suck".. they are just awful in quality. Many are underexposed, poorly composed & out of focus. Also some of those sites ask for an email addre
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Mary Russell & Chris Zaharias are trying to do that here http://stockoptioncounsel.com/ with a bill of rights endorsement by educating folks on stock options and their rights. There are all sort of clauses and tax impli
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Oh come on. This is stupid. Drain the whole reservoir! The city of Portland should also consider animal & ground waste run off. Geez. Those folks should come down to lovely Pacifica in SF where about 4 major drain pipes sit facing the b
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by semerda 13y ago
Cheers. Looks like no word or acronym is safe. ... waits for someone to trademark the word "list" or "todo" lol.. I will be tearing that acronym down too. I'm surprised how many apps there are out there that use bot
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Something becomes a task when there is an action associated with it. Let's call everything that comes into your mind as "stuff". Some of that stuff becomes actionable i.e. task, and some of it stored for later in a project bu
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This looks more like a feature than a business. Why wouldn't bitly add this into their product as a feature? I tried your demo url snip.ly/dBy and it took me few seconds to realize the iframed content in the bottom. Wasn't su
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Ask HN: Patent infringement re "Pomodoro" aka Tomato
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Keeping stuff to do in your head is a terrible idea. Writing stuff down is hard. This is common. The process of solidifying ones garbled thoughts that sound ok in their head onto paper/app into meaningful notes is hard and thus people
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If you are running on autopilot doing the same stuff each day (daily routine) then yeah no need to write your to-dos. But if ideas & tasks pop into your head daily then writing it down is a must. You are fooling yourself thinking your s
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Call an early board meeting and aim for disciplinary action against the CTO. Founders don't get kicked out by employees. You also need to establish leadership power within the company as a founder vs being pushed around or treated like
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Ditto. At the AWS keynote today Andy Jassy, Senior Vice President, spoke of cost saving initiatives AWS has going with $200m already saved via automated notifications to customers to power down their inactive EC2 instances. Andy emphasized
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by semerda 13y ago
Ditto. Had the exact same experience. Half my team were a lot older (50s and 2 x 40s) than me and the other half younger. We ran leaner and meaner then the other engineering teams in the company. Also learnt a lot from them myself and age n
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by semerda 13y ago
#2 - Yes. Jumping into an Isolation Tank (sensory deprivation) is a great hack to kickstart an immersive off-line mode.. You need to truly go offline for this work. A walk might not always yield this. Hence I recommend the use of hacks like
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That's why you need an entrepreneur that has both skills (biz & tech). Engineering chops to execute (code) their dreams and business sense to make sure that they are building something that creates value for customers and not a hob
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by semerda 13y ago
You should not compare Coupons.com to Groupon. Different businesses. Groupon sells deals - you have to put money upfront i.e. commit to a discount. Coupons.com prints money in the form of %/$ off discounts. No need to commit any money
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Yap you got it close. RetailMeNot serves digital coupon codes and focuses on SEO to get traffic to their site. Coupons.com serves manufacturer grocery coupons distributed via printable means (browser plugin) and digital via retailer loyalty
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I feel like this might be a step towards Tesla working with Apple to make their (Tesla's) batteries consumer ready/enabled. Apple obviously has good experience and knowledge on that front that could create an interesting partnersh
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Sorry to hear. Out of curiosity, did you do anything else to open up sales channels or distribution or remove liabilities? I assume your tech guy was the only one coding. A company is an entity. And as such should run without it's foun
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Ditto. Some great speakers and great nuggets of education! Watching it now :-)
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Automation is a by product of Process. Automation hides (and outsources to a machine) the complexities of certain Process(es). When one decides to automate the Process is a question of debate and usually revolves around some sort of Opportu
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A sign that some retailers have no clue how to generate revenue in changing times. Technology has provided more transparency and this has had a change in consumer behavior & spending. Brand loyal customers are what keeps some of these u
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True, although that was after four failed attempts to move away from PHP and realizing due to incumbent inertia they had to find an alternative solution. Enter HipHop. I am sure that today if they had to start over, PHP would not even be co

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