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by stevenj 15y ago
Does Groupon have a durable competitive advantage? Does it have a moat? I'm not sure.
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by stevenj 15y ago
In my opinion, the second type is not investing. It's speculating. "An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative
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>I continue to advise, when asked, on product design. How often is that?
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by stevenj 15y ago
>Do anything to get rid of thousands of cold calling sales people. If I remember correctly, it sees its sales force as a competitive advantage.
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by stevenj 15y ago
That's interesting given that Jason Fried (his partner at 37signals) was a board member of Groupon and is now an advisor to the company.
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by stevenj 15y ago
Anyone know how much it costs to start a small indie record label? Or how much capital existing ones started with?
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by stevenj 15y ago
I bet this works out well. I'm bullish on the fast-casual market; especially when a restaurant's menu is focused and provides quality food at a fair price. Maybe grilled cheese and tomato soup isn't the right product mix, but I'm pretty sur
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by stevenj 15y ago
Let's wait and see. As someone who's been very critical of Microsoft's consumer products, I was quite impressed with the Windows 8 demo at D9. [1] Windows 8 looks nothing like Windows. It looks much better. Good job, Microsoft. Make it grea
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by stevenj 15y ago
>In a few years when there are 1000 YC companies it will start to mean a lot less to all those people who have been helping YC companies succeed to date. Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford, etc. seem to be doing rather well, as far as higher
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by stevenj 15y ago
I may be wrong about this, but I thought I heard PG say that a YC company was working on a solution.
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Out of curiosity, how long have you known each other (perhaps defined by when you first received an email from him via your HN submission and when you considered him a co-founder)?
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You made something of value to people and put a price tag on it. People bought it. Nice work!
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Comcast Decided To Shut Down SearchYC(searchyc.com)
94 points by stevenj 15y ago|64 comments
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John Lasseter: Father of the Year (esquire.com)
1 points by stevenj 15y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Anyone know why searchyc.com is down?
6 points by stevenj 15y ago|2 comments
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by stevenj 15y ago
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." -Howard Aiken http://www.paulgraham.com/googles.html
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>"Obsessive focus on being awesome" is not a non-diversified investing strategy. I disagree. I think focusing on only owning/investing in "All-Stars" is a non-diversified investing strategy. "Berkshire's CEOs come in many forms. Some ha
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by stevenj 15y ago
I know nothing about Bitcoin. And I agree that you probably shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket. But that doesn't mean that wide diversification is the right strategy. I think some of the greatest successes have occurred because of an
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by stevenj 15y ago
Re: 1 Perhaps. But if you know what you're doing, wide diversification may not be wise. "How many insights do you need? Well, I'd argue: that you don't need many in a lifetime. If you look at Berkshire Hathaway and all of its accumulated bi
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Single page: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/business/29groupon.html?_r...
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by stevenj 15y ago
>or poll a group of users that you are familiar with and respect highly I'd be interested in seeing the results of a poll with just the top 100 users* participating. * http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
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Do you think the Segway creators were merely a good team then?
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Actions should (and do) speak loudest. For example, many here believe the future of Microsoft's consumer business is in trouble. I'm sure many have great ideas as to how to fix it. I even bet there are several senior people inside Microsoft
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by stevenj 15y ago
My submissions: 8 points: The Viral Me (gq.com) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1976306 6 points: The Problem with Microsoft (cnn.com) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2383169 5 points: Wall Street Firm Uses Algorithms to Make Sp
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Ask HN: Good Posts That Got Lost?
5 points by stevenj 15y ago|3 comments
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I think a good product person is a good artist. They think of product as art. And they're able to create good art (in some cases Picasso level art), without necessarily knowing how to paint (e.g. Steve Jobs).
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Steve Jobs to Give Keynote at WWDC 2011(gigaom.com)
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Single page: http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/11_22/b42...
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by stevenj 15y ago
Re: "switching between accounts a pain" Not sure if most of the switching is between email accounts, but if it is, I've been using the 30 day free trial for MailPlane ( http://mailplaneapp.com ) and have been pleased with it. I'm going to p
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by stevenj 15y ago
That's true. But IMO, to make it worthwhile, you still have to get the timing right. That's the hard part. Identifying a bubble is relatively easy. What you don't know is how big it'll get and when it'll pop.

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