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by speby 17y ago
Don't kick yourself while you're down, Tom... I know Dan was certainly more on the business side of it and this could mean that things may not continue as planned but there may be good things you can do with what you do have left. Even if t
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by speby 17y ago
So true. One of my favorite memories of him was when we first met him and Tom in June of 2008, right when we had begun Y Combinator that summer. Brad, one of my co-founders, and I had flown in from Chicago to start living there that summer
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by speby 17y ago
Leaving a suicide note is supposedly a lot less common than our popular belief (from movies or books that depict fictional suicide situations) tell us...
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by speby 17y ago
Yeah, there's a lot of questions and wonder about how someone like Dan, who just... seemed fine and happy (perhaps on the outside), could bring himself to make such a terrible and extreme choice. It's a puzzle that, despite my only knowing
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by speby 17y ago
A sad, sad day. Hard to imagine I won't be able to see the great Dan again. I'll miss him and his antics, jokes, big talk, and huge ambition and drive.
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by speby 17y ago
When looking for investors, your last resort plan better be to be able to run/grow/operate the business if you walk out with nothing.
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by speby 17y ago
I see your point but technically that also means going down without a fight. As I commented above, even though we don't see any business model and product innovation from Blockbuster (aside from trying to copy/steal from Netflix's model), i
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by speby 17y ago
Standard natural evolution and an example of a business unwilling to transform or reinvent itself remain competitive and to out-innovate new entrants (i.e. Netflix and Redbox). It's sad, on one hand, since I personally remember enjoying my
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by speby 17y ago
Why is this news? Well, it isn't. And, why is it that whenever an article comes up like this (and it's not just computer science), it's almost always written in a way that seems like there's something wrong with the current state of affairs
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by speby 17y ago
Yes, I did. I left a $100K+ job to work on Poll Everywhere. Been growing ever since and it was, without a doubt, the best thing I've done for myself in a long time. Never looked back. It also helps, when you're really small still, to have s
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by speby 17y ago
This poor dude... probably has the neural capacity to learn and be intelligent. Sadly, he's the same type of fad monkey trying to call the kettle black and hoping to get rich quick. Oh well, I'm hope he'll learn by experimentation. Well, at
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by speby 17y ago
Yeah, that's not the same message they sent to all people. Mine gave me a choice but if I chose the Unlimited, the message clearly stated I would need to upgrade. Oh well, either way, I don't mind. I don't require the unlimited history at t
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by speby 17y ago
Ok, I read the article and perhaps this may come across as naive but isn't that what Flash more or less is already? Aside from the fact that Flash is designed more visual animations, it certainly does have an application-style framework (Fl
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Entrepreneurship Forum Student Questions(seaneby.com)
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by speby 18y ago
Selling itself is a misnomer. Nothing "sells itself." Selling just means a combination of things you need to do communicate well to other people about what your service/product does, why it does it better than anything else, and how you're
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by speby 18y ago
I would argue startups are a specific subset of businesses that initially are "Small Businesses" with the defining quality being the capability to scale to something much larger, obviously when faced with a market opportunity that allows it
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by speby 18y ago
Pre-founder: 9 to 5 work, 5 to 8/9 part-time startup, 8/9 to 1 life. Mon-Sat., usually Sundays are full-life. Full-time founder: 9:30 to 11 work/coffee/eat, 11:30 to 3 work, 3 to 4 gym, 5 to 8 work, 8-11 eat/life, 11-1 work. Mon-Sat with Su
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by speby 18y ago
Poll Everywhere - http://polleverywhere.com
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by speby 18y ago
Dawdle CEO dawdling around before losing himself?
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by speby 18y ago
Good start. Have you looked at apps that do somewhat similar things? You might find improvements and/or inspiration to do something better or different. Also, your site is simple enough that you might consider doing progressive signup. Don'
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by speby 18y ago
Well done on the new accounts. Are you far along with your product I assume? What is your product btw?
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by speby 18y ago
In general, 1 page is still the norm, for several reasons, not the least of which when you print it out (for any reason) you don't have to staple or keep multiple pages together. Secondly, there is very little reason that your resume (not t
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by speby 18y ago
Nice way of looking at a real story and re-framing it with a better approach based on past experience. And the old adage, "honesty is the best policy" probably does work in this case.
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by speby 18y ago
Great work all of you Frogmetrics guys. The design is wonderful. So simple.
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by speby 18y ago
Seems like nice guys. I'm sure they'll pick some good founders and probably help a few to succeed. But really, what the hell is up with the khaki pants and button-downs? Seriously, these are still software/internet startups.
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by speby 18y ago
To go with the notion that a drink isn't purchased on its taste: Take note that Coke does taste different in certain countries, not the least of which because they often substitute sugars, particularly in Diet Coke. Also note that they even
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by speby 18y ago
And also, don't forget that Firefox has also been around for a long time now... and it still has only barely scratched that surface.
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by speby 18y ago
I'm not sure if they qualified as monopolies per the true definition, but what about TWA and PanAm for international air travel during the regulated airfare days? They each had respective monopolies on huge numbers of routes on separate coa
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by speby 18y ago
This could also be one of those "if you were on the other side" arguments. As much as I am annoyed by the Boston investors' skittshness (not to excuse other investors from being skittish), I wonder if I too would be a pansy when it came dow
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by speby 18y ago
Have you looked at the Apache POI project? Not sure if it can do XLSX yet, though.

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