sportanova

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by sportanova 10y ago
But then again how many of these companies with cofounders, really only had cofounders-in-name-only? Where one person really drove everything but at some point thought - oh shit, if I'm going to be successful, I need a cofounder! Given
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by sportanova 10y ago
The "just a warm body, any warm body!" mentality is what's so detrimental about the co-founder craze. Both financially (~50% of equity!) and in terms of more risk. It's a bad idea unless they're at least as talented
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by sportanova 10y ago
Now you're having less fun, but I feel like we have this idyllic fantasy of cofounder - not unlike a romantic partner. It sounds exciting and exhilarating, but what are the odds that it ends in divorce (liquidation)?
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by sportanova 10y ago
> The greater the number of valuable, diverse inputs the greater the likelihood for success But is that really true? Seems like more of an unsubstantiated platitude. "The more colors you use in a painting, the more beautiful it is!&
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by sportanova 10y ago
Horrible, infantile practices that somehow became "best practices"
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by sportanova 10y ago
"These are you new values and reasons for being!" Shocking that that doesn't work. And I don't understand how people take seriously the "need to be passionate about x industry". No, you just need to pay money a
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by sportanova 10y ago
Thanks! It sounds like the IDE is the real feature
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by sportanova 10y ago
How does smalltalk compare to objective-c? It's on my list of languages to learn because it started with message passing, but if it's user experience is as bad as objective-c I might pass
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by sportanova 10y ago
but it's so much easier to blame it on the patriarchy! Not to mention she's a sexist: "Uber driver who might possibly be a rapist".
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by sportanova 10y ago
From the title i was expecting un-pc commentary on diversity programs
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by sportanova 10y ago
It's funny (in an office space sort of way) when a company that's been around for a while comes out with a "values" statement. "Grown adults, these are now your reasons for living!"
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by sportanova 10y ago
There are 2 versions of culture: 1) The "culture" that management and recruiters talk about 2) The way that @cauterized talks about, which includes all the subtle and not-so-subtle ways that people work and interact in the company
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by sportanova 10y ago
And they're poisoning the water with lead! Oh wait..
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by sportanova 10y ago
"They also face fewer regulations than banks". Because they're not banks..
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by sportanova 10y ago
That's insane - almost like they don't want you to start a company. I assume most people just ignore it though
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by sportanova 10y ago
where are all the sites that don't use javascript? It's ubiquitous
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by sportanova 10y ago
VC is a life-style business
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by sportanova 10y ago
But how can they add routes in rails if they can't implement mergesort on a whiteboard? /s
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by sportanova 10y ago
It's basically admitting that their main protection against dilution is fucking over previous employees And how are previous employees "dead equity" but not andreeson ?
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by sportanova 10y ago
What's it like in the west EU?
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by sportanova 10y ago
You can tell that they're a terrible recruiter when they try to give you the "Most recruiters do X, but we're different..." speech
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by sportanova 10y ago
Ha my dad says the same thing, though he's not a billionaire. Says they're always more trouble than they're worth
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by sportanova 10y ago
linkedin hasn't been a good candidate for low volatility. always possible that they thought it wouldn't move, but there are much less volatile stocks out there
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by sportanova 10y ago
haha seriously.. whether it's rails, larvel, express, play, or django it's all basically the same. let's not pretend like java is string theory
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by sportanova 10y ago
my guess would be that EVERY company only hires the best
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by sportanova 10y ago
I thought we were all being replaced by robots..
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by sportanova 10y ago
ordinary people can borrow 50% on margin
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by sportanova 10y ago
Surprisingly, reading and understanding haskell libraries is much easier than scala libraries
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by sportanova 10y ago
TLDR: pivotal creates a daily pointless meeting to get people into the office early
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Why Pivotal Serves Breakfast at 9:06(businessinsider.com)
3 points by sportanova 10y ago|1 comments

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