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by sgoraya 17y ago
I've been following redfin since their early days and was very excited by their business model. They were featured on 60 minutes about a 1-2 years ago too, which helped them gain some mainstream momentum. The real estate industry, specific
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by sgoraya 17y ago
I agree with most of your comment, though take exception to: " LSD is completely safe physically, it's impossible to overdose or cause brain damage of any sort." During my college years, I met a couple of people that were very much affected
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by sgoraya 17y ago
Likewise - I enjoy reading the comments/threads before the actual link - The comments determine whether I will read the link or not... oftentimes
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by sgoraya 17y ago
The book: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law Helped me tremendously - I was in the same boat as you and gave this book a shot - Easy to read, good as a reference as well;
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by sgoraya 18y ago
Can they build sustainable revenue streams off other products? Do they have to? I think they will feel the pinch and need to create other, sustainable, revenue streams when they begin to observe a loss in search and advertising marketshar
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by sgoraya 18y ago
The Planet, Ringcentral, Google Apps
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by sgoraya 18y ago
SGI clearly had the cutting edge graphics technology and hardware - In my mind, the 3D video cards killed them very quickly and made SGI obsolete. As you may recall, when the 3Dfx Voodoo's were hitting the market, SGI did nothing at all, t
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by sgoraya 18y ago
Great summary- I fondly recall my indigo2 workstation + 19 inch monitor, that weighed like a 100 lbs and was about 2ft. deep :) As time went on, our graveyard of SGI machines in the company attic grew and grew... OpenGL - wondrous technolog
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by sgoraya 18y ago
googles sales are pretty low touch For the most part- Except for enterprise sales that includes their search appliances, apps and gMaps API's. The sales folks were pretty top notch and always got me the info I requested in a timely manne
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by sgoraya 18y ago
I've tried a to implement GTD a few times but am never able to stick with it - Its an interesting system and the only one that I ever tried to implement. I called David Allen's company to see how much the 'coach' would cost so that a couple
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by sgoraya 18y ago
Its evil since they did not give any prior notice AND are witholding monies.
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by sgoraya 18y ago
The Apps/Enterprise divsion has a support staff and they were helpful when I setup our domain email accts. and with our enterprise licensing of gMaps API.
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by sgoraya 18y ago
Interesting article - I was affected by the apps outage which only lasted about 1hour, so it was not that big of an issue. I suppose more than anything, the biggest concern for Google are software bugs as opposed to hardware issues... Puts
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by sgoraya 18y ago
So does Carbonite... Good example - when I read the story I was not surprised. It was bound to happen to at least a company or two. I used carbonite for a bit before I went back to my own server (w/nightly backup). I thought I let my p
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by sgoraya 18y ago
My sentiments exactly, but its shoemoney just doing his thang! I read his site regularly and there is usually good/great info regarding ad networks/SEO in general, but there is the occasional 'trying to get some google love' post.
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by sgoraya 18y ago
GO to bed earlier at night. Thats pretty much it - We've all read the various sleep 'hacks' and blogs out there but the only thing that worked for me was to go to bed earlier. Like an old man, I now go to bed at 10pm and wake up at 6 ;) -
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by sgoraya 18y ago
I've used Lua for video game scripting - it was pretty quick and easy to learn (I had a C/C++ background). There is a relatively large community of help - I got a lot of tips from the list-servs. Not hard at all to find coders with Lua expe
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by sgoraya 18y ago
I'm still a PC user and buyer - ducks ;) Although a lot of my colleagues and friends have moved over to the Mac, I'm still a PC user. I've heard all the great things about the Mac - one of my buddies has been a lifelong die hard Mac user
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by sgoraya 18y ago
I've been using my GC# in a similar manner and its been a great experience. The call log and the ability to filter #'s is a good way to categorize and 'file' my phone calls - And I really like the new UI too! I was skeptical at first when
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by sgoraya 18y ago
Has anyone seen any economic case studies, predictions, or articles, that can shed some light on what is REALLY going on here. I do not think that studies or predictions are what you/we really need. What are the odds that a prediction, ba
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by sgoraya 18y ago
I agree - Although the quality may be slipping, I still find the site useful enough to check it out daily in my news/info gathering routine in the mornings. If something interests me, I'll read the full post (which is becoming rare now day
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by sgoraya 18y ago
?? With real estate and investing, a decade of growth can get wiped out in 1 week. Really? My father has been involved in RE for over 20 yrs, has done great and is doing very well currently. There is much more to RE than just homes: Ra
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by sgoraya 18y ago
To restate the obvious, its definitely a great thing that they got acquired, so congrats to the pownce team. However, my brief experience with the app was to create an account, login 2-3 times afterward and then never touch it again. I w
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What game developers do when their games launch(kotaku.com)
4 points by sgoraya 18y ago|0 comments
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by sgoraya 18y ago
Agreed - I have a small couch in my office that I use for naps; Sometimes in the early afternoon, I lose motivation and hit the proverbial 'wall' - when this happens, I just set my cell phone alarm and nap for an hour. I usually wake up al
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by sgoraya 18y ago
Our services can be considered more consultation and customization around our core product and expertise at this point(integration of data and geospatial technologies). Although I would love to have 500 customers (a milestone I look forwar
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by sgoraya 18y ago
Also, video games != casual games. The point of this article was that casual games might be counter-cyclical due two their revenue model which differs from traditional video games. Agreed to a certain extent, but my opinion also applies t
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by sgoraya 18y ago
I would disagree with the statement ..."to young to jump to the conclusion that it is counter-cyclical." As a quick backgrounder, my former boss who owned and operated a videogame publisher/developer mentioned to me on several occasions tha
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by sgoraya 18y ago
Off-line word of mouth, i.e. magic One paying beta client recommended us to another company who helped us setup another couple of meetings and so on. We now have just under 20 clients and are debating whether we need to hire a sales guy
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by sgoraya 18y ago
I would say there is a higher concentration of tech companies in the orange county area and cities like Irvine as opposed to the immediate LA area. In general, a lot less web startups and more biotech and videogame/entertainment companies.

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