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by thetrumanshow 12y ago
There is no innovation shortage necessarily. There is a shortage in the ability to capture market value from new innovations, typically due to undercapitalization.
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by thetrumanshow 12y ago
("It's a bit sad..." seems passive-aggressive to me, but I give you the benefit of the doubt here) No one wants their advantages whittled away, regardless of whether it helps other people or not. This is simple self-preservat
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by thetrumanshow 12y ago
I'm guessing the reaction from Amazon will be to immediately put more downward pressure on the prices on the _key items_ that fuel Walmart's business (those of which that can be bought on Amazon anyway). I'm sure they know ex
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by thetrumanshow 12y ago
This just happened to me. The same timeframe, the same vector of attack, but a different target. They wanted my Twitter handle. Fortunately it was an old handle that Twitter had locked down and was not transferable. The hacker succeeded in
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by thetrumanshow 12y ago
Concur (with anecdotal data from observation); Tons of Eastern European drivers now hauling through the heartland. I bet it pays better than being a software developer back home.
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by thetrumanshow 12y ago
Man, I feel like I'm going to be really negative, I hope not, but here goes: OKC is undergoing an oil boom, the secondary effects of which are being reported in this article (IMO). My advice: come live in Oklahoma or Kansas if you actu
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by thetrumanshow 12y ago
Great looking app! Minor nit: the free version's name doesn't quite fit the personality of the rest of the page.
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
That is certainly a neat side-effect of concentrating awfully hard. I think I experienced similar things when taking standardized tests for college admission. Haven't experienced anything like that since. I'm not sure that you&#x2
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
There seems to be a giant gap of perceptions and understanding on this topic. For some, an MVP seems to simply be a tool used to verify a concept in a marketplace. Some MVPs in this category are landing pages, mock-ups, or a shoddy app that
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
And, take heart fellow awkward nerds. I've set the bar incredibly low for social contact by using gimmicky means of reaching out to my own heros. It was the only time when I regretted that they actually read and replied to what I sent.
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
Nice. I call this technique the "attack of the clones". I was slammed with this method by competitors in FB apps in 2007. Cleverly done my nemesis. :) As you note, this is effective in many other places too.
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
I would love to have a high-res version of that. If you're in a Q/A mood, I'm curious: When you start to see one of the YC batch companies struggling... what does an intervention look like?
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
Your question was answered, more or less, in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6220479
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6220632 The core problem with HN seems to be the tendency for people to lambast ideas before we've given them a chance to germinate. PG gets fiery mad at this behavior. Scoffing at
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
Indeed, a good place to start. Ian Landsman is very well connected to the community. However, keep in mind that the best kind of knowledge exchange is probably happening 1-on-1. Just like when attending conferences (Microconf, Business of S
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
If you're at ground-level and just starting out, you can buy your way into a few (as jmduke pointed one out). I highly recommend joining Rob Walling's (rwalling) Micropreneur Academy and branching out from there. The cover charge
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
Actually HN itself is experiencing some 'unbundling', I believe. Boot-strappers, for example, have long been carving out their own communities away from HN. I can only imagine this is also true for valley startups.. There's n
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
(See also: Goading the NSA and freaking out your friends) http://www.thiscallwillbemonitored.com/ I'm truly surprised that I haven't had a visit from one of those black Suburbans yet.
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
"Hey Matt, let's setup a company of our own and ditch this place - you can own 50%" With regards to the salesmen and their business propositions, it doesn't sound like stolen data. Sounds like he played the role of compa
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
But, do keep in mind that this won't always be the case. Tools are making it ever-easier for people who know practically nothing to break into the product space without the filters that you'd normally get from someone going throug
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
Hmm... its possible for people to miss even massive changes in culture at the point of inflection. I personally felt it this morning when I was getting ready to reply to an email to a friend with a cold-war joke that in times past I would h
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
This is why you should buy a nice car and wear nice clothes... it signals that you're a better person. {wink, wink, nod}
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
I once had a pastor who was a used-car salesman. It seemed like the worst kind of conflict-of-interest. Young pastors, especially in the independent circuit (ie. not a seminary) are hustlers. They get told "NO!!!" a lot and it mak
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
"down 40% or so this year" What is your best guess as to what is causing that? Is it primarily penguin/panda related?
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
I'm always amazed at the vitrol that comes from the people in the Pro-H1B denomination. You guys sometimes make the Protectionist denomination seem quaint. 1) You SHOULD disallow that. Why tolerate a system that creates incentives for
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
Facebook likely used the platform as a way to spam you and all your friends by proxy. Thus, the apps took the heat and Facebook got the boost in growth it needed. Well executed I say.
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
Great story. One thing: on your RealCrowd homepage, even though I'm on the internet all day, I didn't connect with the need to scroll. The only thing that won the war with the back button (because it was an open tab, and I had for
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
Hi Pud, I actually worked with Gary Burke on an early-early version of TuneCore. I just... could never imagine how it would make money back then. Maybe I simply underestimated the number of artists willing to pay for this (probably). I gues
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Developing Traction: A Classic Joke Retold(startupengine.org)
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by thetrumanshow 13y ago
"...start talking about something more interesting than your work" Aaannd herein lies the second-order problem for many: that they aren't involved in anything interesting outside of work. This is, by the way, also a problem f

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