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by smartbear 16y ago
I would take a proven entrepreneur over an MBA and a proven uber-coder-geek over an MBA any day of the week, and most VCs would too.
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by smartbear 16y ago
I don't completely disagree, but wouldn't you agree that for every company so amazing at design as Apple and Google there are 100 or 1000 who are successful for other reasons? And therefore just saying "better design" is not IN GENERAL som
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by smartbear 16y ago
I agree with you that having a feature is useful now, which is why I specifically wrote in the article that it "isn't a long-term advantage." Typically the "first-mover" advantage is one of marketing, not features. That is, you get a bunch
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by smartbear 16y ago
Hi Arturadib, Jason here. I think you'll find when reading the individual posts on each topic that it's not contradictory. Also there's a distinction between seeking things like competitive advantage -- which of course you have to do -- and
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From "minimum viable" to "maximally buyable"(onstartups.com)
13 points by smartbear 16y ago|0 comments
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by smartbear 16y ago
No this does NOT have to do with sample size. It's about picking a theory, then testing that theory only, rather than trying to seek a theory in data that already exists. At the end of the article it explicitly says this and gives three spe
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by smartbear 16y ago
I didn't say reaching for authenticity is inauthentic. In fact, I explicitly said these ideas are worthy and should be pursued. Rather, you can't just invoke well-worn phrases because they've been misused so much that people don't know what
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by smartbear 16y ago
If you believe that, it's impossible to have a discussion.
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by smartbear 16y ago
Fair enough! You're certainly right about the facts and that being precise on these things is vital. Thanks!
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by smartbear 16y ago
Thanks for the promotion (yes QB is weird and difficult). However the article isn't about software, it's about why it's useful to use different accounting perspectives depending on what information you're wanted to get from your books. So e
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by smartbear 16y ago
Technically true, but the reaction to a purchase order is typically to issue an invoice. In any case, the argument is still true -- you invoice on a certain day, but payment can happy any time. So just replace "PO" with "invoice" and it's
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by smartbear 16y ago
Come on Paul -- trying for a more likely outcome of being a single-digit millionaire instead of an unlikely outcome of being a triple-digit millionaire doesn't make you "not ambitious." I'm not saying it's bad to swing for the fences! Just
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YC finally bested by Y-Permutator(onstartups.com)
21 points by smartbear 17y ago|7 comments
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A butterfly flaps its wings and you make a sale(blog.asmartbear.com)
1 points by smartbear 17y ago|0 comments
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by smartbear 17y ago
It's interesting that the sum of their traffic is relatively constant. That implies SO really is eating at their traffic specifically. But it also implies SO isn't encouraging new traffic, and that the general market for Q&A isn't grow
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by smartbear 17y ago
Awesome, I'm glad you got that joke! I don't think anyone else mentioned it. :-) I've seen studies too on things like "Developer Productivity" or other such crud where they didn't even measure stuff like "new functionality added" but ONLY
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by smartbear 17y ago
+1 on "taking you to court is enough to kill." And you personally -- even if you win you don't get your lawyer fees back (contrary to popular opinion). Nonsolicit is actually one of the clauses I think isn't unfair. It's one thing to leav
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by smartbear 17y ago
When you use RoR and, say, 10-20 gems, you spend a lot of time discovering bugs in those things, fixing them, contributing them back, and hoping the contri's are taken. None of that is free, of course. Whereas I've used Apache (both the C-
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by smartbear 17y ago
Depends on the open-source project. For e.g. Apache, Linux, MySQL, you're right it's unfair. For things like RoR, it's pretty accurate. For small projects, it's definitely true, but then again most companies don't depend on relatively un
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by smartbear 17y ago
What you're missing: That many people do "deliberate practice" and yet there are large differences in skill. Of course flailing around isn't practice. The notion that "perfect practice makes perfect" or "practices doesn't make perfect, it
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by smartbear 17y ago
To me, "deliberate practice" is a cop-out. If you practice like crazy and still aren't good, it's because it wasn't the RIGHT practice? It's like the horoscope saying "keep your eyes open for an opportunity today." If an opportunity doesn
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by smartbear 17y ago
No, it DOES NOT qualify them as experts by the definition given by this latest 10k hours craze. And no being a program manager at Excel DOES NOT qualify Joel as an expert on blogging or bug tracking. My point is: Neither of those matter.
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by smartbear 17y ago
Thanks for the excellent critique of my article! You're right, the point I'm making is that becoming THAT KIND of so-called "expert" isn't the point of a company. Actually I'm not refuting arguments about how to become an expert in the firs
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by smartbear 17y ago
I like your point, but in the specific examples given of my own mistakes with sunk costs in startups, I usually did know it was wrong at the time. I just didn't have the stones to pull the trigger.
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by smartbear 17y ago
I agree completely. In the real world costs are often NOT completely sunk. I could even add to your list, e.g. employee morale. Along your lines of argument, you might say you've INVESTED money instead of just SUNK. At the same time, we a
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Apple introduces the iRock [cartoon](onstartups.com)
2 points by smartbear 17y ago|0 comments
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Geek's guide to hiring marketing people(onstartups.com)
5 points by smartbear 17y ago|1 comments
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by smartbear 17y ago
Remember: When the magician shows you how the trick is done, you still go back to that magician for the next trick. The magician is still the expert.
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by smartbear 17y ago
It's not "possibly related," it's explicitly stated in the article, including this very link to Wikipedia.
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by smartbear 17y ago
Well said -- that's a terrific summary of my post.

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