snowbird122

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by snowbird122 18y ago
This is what I call "playing defense" instead of "playing offense". By nature, the people at large companies are more concerned with risk aversion than innovation. This is also how managers like to "hold power" over the real innovators by
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by snowbird122 18y ago
I don't own an ipod touch, but I view the it as an iphone that can't make phone calls and doesn't have a $70/month fee. It can surf (802.11), run apps from the app store, and play movies and music. It costs $70 more than the same sized ip
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by snowbird122 18y ago
If you can't spot the sucker at the table in the first 10 minutes, you are the sucker.
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by snowbird122 18y ago
I haven't thought about that, but it definitely makes sense. Do you have a source on that?
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by snowbird122 18y ago
This comes down to negotiation theory. Is it better to make the first offer, or wait for the other person to make the first offer? I used to think "The first person to mention a number loses", but after taking a negotiations class and app
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by snowbird122 18y ago
I've been hearing about this forever. Wake me up when I can use excel in my browser.
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by snowbird122 18y ago
You can read these books. They are the same books I read while getting my MBA. The question is: will you? Could you have earned the equivalent of your undergrad degree if you would have just read and understood the books. Probably. Would
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by snowbird122 18y ago
All that selling. All that marketing. Disgusting.
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by snowbird122 18y ago
If you REALLY believe in the value of this algorithm, I would think the best way to monetize it would be to put it to commercial use. The usual reason to license is because implementation requires too much capital. Algorithm commercializa
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by snowbird122 18y ago
Anyone care to comment on SugarCRM? They have taken on $46M in funding and have a current valuation around $134M.
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by snowbird122 18y ago
Touchscreens are great for applications that don't require a keyboard. Non-technical people like touching screens. It usually means a simple UI and a small feature set.
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by snowbird122 18y ago
Is that ChasePaymentTech? http://www.chasepaymentech.com
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Ask YC: Recommend a merchant account provider
19 points by snowbird122 18y ago|22 comments
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by snowbird122 18y ago
We make it easy for customers to provide feedback and ideas to companies, and to make it easy for companies to manage these ideas. http://whisperlabs.com
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by snowbird122 19y ago
This is exactly the problem my startup is trying to solve. We hope to be launching soon. The whole idea is that there should be an easy way for people to provide ideas to companies, and there should be an easy way for companies to manage a
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by snowbird122 19y ago
It is interesting that you mention that MBAs have job security. I'm not so sure it is true. MBAs are often "middle management" and can be the first to be dismissed in hard times. Companies that think programmers are commodities aren't wo
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by snowbird122 19y ago
Learning is fun. Get an engineering/cs undergrad, then get an MBA. This way you can understand the entire spectrum of a technology company from code to financials.
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by snowbird122 19y ago
A quote from the sales print on the sitepoint book: "The book uses Rails 1.2 — the very latest version of Rails"
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by snowbird122 19y ago
Thanks. That does explain it. Now for the better question: Is there an impartial source to quantitatively show what languages are gaining/losing popularity? I found this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/3952/ref=pd_ts_b_...
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Google Trends shows most language searches declining
2 points by snowbird122 19y ago|7 comments
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by snowbird122 19y ago
I cannot convey how painful an experience I had implementing SAP at my last company. Big companies that aren't technology focused still need a way to keep all their information (orders, customers, inventory, invoices, sales, manufacturing,
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by snowbird122 19y ago
I used a BBS in the 806 area code on my commodore 64. Anyone ever play Empire? Fun game.
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by snowbird122 19y ago
http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/news/magazine/99f/success.asp
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by snowbird122 19y ago
First off, I want to thank everyone for the ideas. Just so you know, the problem we are having isn't a technical one. I feel that our application isn't getting 'the love' it would get if I wrote it myself. Our service providers rely on u
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by snowbird122 19y ago
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
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Founders aren't programmers = doomed ?
15 points by snowbird122 19y ago|44 comments
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by snowbird122 19y ago
One of the most interesting parts of the book is that it claims you should "never criticize" another person. It says that every person can always justify their actions in their own mind and all criticism is taken negatively. As an example