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Things I learned in selling Teamprise to Microsoft(blog.businessofsoftware.org)
1 points by tpatke 15y ago|0 comments
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by tpatke 15y ago
While I think that PG is probably right in his observation, it is not actually very helpful. It is kind of like when he said, "When we haven't heard from, or about, a startup for a couple months, that's a bad sign. If we send them an email
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by tpatke 15y ago
Makes me wonder how may of Apple's Think Different personalities were paid for their "endorsement". [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Different
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by tpatke 15y ago
I think the issue is access control. Clearly they can and do look at their customers personal data. Thats not very funny - even if it happens to be a picture of a cat.
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Gorilla Glass 2 promises thinner mobile device screens(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by tpatke 15y ago|0 comments
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by tpatke 15y ago
You might also want to check out an article the BBC is running today which says that sky scrapers are linked with impending financial crashes. Specifically mentions China. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16494013 Apparently, whole cit
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Google persuades large bank to use the cloud(bbc.co.uk)
40 points by tpatke 15y ago|23 comments
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Raspberry Pi in the classroom(bbc.co.uk)
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Google admits profiting from illegal Olympic ticket ads(bbc.co.uk)
14 points by tpatke 15y ago|5 comments
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Larry Tesler: The Silicon Valley history man(bbc.co.uk)
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by tpatke 15y ago
I wonder how this relates to the "entrepreneurial selection process". According to PG [1]: - hard work is necessary but insufficient - entrepreneurs either have a very high probability of success or "epsilon". - it is easy to know (or find
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Disney beats Zynga in Facebook games list(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by tpatke 15y ago|0 comments
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Jailbreakers use Apple crash reports to 'free' iPhones(bbc.co.uk)
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by tpatke 15y ago
I love the picture of the programmers at the bottom of the page. Clearly not the best working conditions even though the office has nice desk space available (see background). Just shows how much more developers are respected now. ...tha
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Apple founding papers sold at auction for nearly $1.6m (bbc.co.uk)
20 points by tpatke 15y ago|6 comments
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by tpatke 15y ago
This conversation looks an aweful lot like the anti-Walmart and anti-Starbucks movements. When a business starts to become massively successful such that they start to kill small business - people start worrying about 'the community'. Chan
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by tpatke 15y ago
I am not quite sure what to make of this. Steve Blank teaches a class on entrepreneurship. If you have a team of Hacker, Hustler, Designer, Visionary Stanford graduates - sounds like you are 90% of the way there. Hell - I will give you m
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Google Street View explores post-tsunami Japan(bbc.co.uk)
24 points by tpatke 15y ago|1 comments
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by tpatke 15y ago
Miguel de Icaza is living the life right now. He managed to get Novell to fund his idea and then effectively bought it off of them for a steal. Well done! Incidentally, I think this is the best way to start a business if you ever find you
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by tpatke 15y ago
Meh. This is hardly the most ridiculous thing I have seen on the internet. I am sure this methodology will work sometimes for some clients. Heck, I bet a lot of startups here on HackerNews are using similar methodologies - but without th
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by tpatke 15y ago
This is an iterative improvement. Not a revolution. Microsoft has some serious catching up to do here and I would like to see a little more innovation coming from MSFT's camp. "Hey, nobody is really using our platform, but you can save f
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by tpatke 15y ago
I would add the the SEC is a notoriously corrupt organization in that they need the banks help in order to understand what is going on AND people who work for the SEC tend to find their way into cushie bank jobs. The idea of giving them mo
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Google ads link to viruses(google.co.uk)
1 points by tpatke 15y ago|1 comments
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by tpatke 15y ago
There is a big difference between PG and Arrington: PG states that you should be working for yourself. YC is set up to allow entrepreneurs to make money if they work hard and a big part of that is allowing a company to grow before being r
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by tpatke 15y ago
When I think about all of the problems with the education system I am not sure that "teaching coding" would top that list. The bottom line is that coding is a profession which is not suited to everyone. I remember being a TA at university
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by tpatke 15y ago
I think the license now allows commercial development. Additionally Microsoft is announcing that they have partnered with TechStars giving your commercial kinect idea an optional funding route. The six percent goes to TechStars. Not Micr
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Is identity more important than facts?(bbc.co.uk)
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Myth of the Great Chief Executive(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by tpatke 15y ago|0 comments
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by tpatke 15y ago
I don't think PG is arguing that Gates is rich because of IBM's failure. I think he is arguing that Gates is fantastically rich because of IBM's failure. PG states in the essay that someone like Gates who is smart and hard working will
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by tpatke 15y ago
Who cares? Whatever browser is the market leader doesn't matter because you will still need to support IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari for the foreseeable future. Nobody has ever made a (significant) profit from a browser. In fact, Micros

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