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by vaksel 15y ago
they are too dependent on Google, which is why they were silly to walk away from their offer.
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by vaksel 15y ago
stuff like this is pretty much why my online shopping is almost exclusively done at Amazon. Even if it's a few bucks more compared to some other site, I just trust them not to screw me over.
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by vaksel 15y ago
the point is that at 21 and with his skillset, he had quite a comfortable life waiting ahead of him, one that would have been better than 99% of people out there. I don't care what other things happened in his life, at 21, there is absolute
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by vaksel 15y ago
money problems would definitely fall under work life for startups. Girl/health problems might fall as well, since the work/life balance is so crappy
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by vaksel 15y ago
Not everyone gets to be a dotcom millionaire...plenty of people have to work for a living. And with his skillset, at least he didn't have to settle for a $20K/yr job flipping burgers.
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by vaksel 15y ago
what a waste, at 21 and with Diaspora on his resume, he could have gone on to work at Google or Facebook, making $100K-$200K/yr. The skillset was there. Sure it's not as much as owning the next Facebook...but it's plenty of money to live a
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by vaksel 15y ago
it's basic human nature to speculate that's why the news of Michael Jackson's death caused Twitter and even Google to crash
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by vaksel 15y ago
what a senseless death
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by vaksel 15y ago
seems to only work in chrome...that's why I'm a bit weary of using this new stuff...since chances are that 90% of your users won't be able to get the full experience
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by vaksel 15y ago
yeah...if the chef's contribution was considered to be worth less, then their # of shares was lower to begin with.
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by vaksel 15y ago
pirate bay probably doesn't care...or already approved this...since I doubt someone would go and use someone else's logo for an actual business without asking first.
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by vaksel 15y ago
you have to keep user experience in mind...everyone is used to scrolling down to find the country...if you throw this in, half your users will get frustrated not knowing what to do. on the technical side, it should just match the starting l
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by vaksel 15y ago
probably won't work. there is no real trust in employment...to a lot of people they'd just see it as an added incentive for the boss to fire you at the end of 4th year.
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by vaksel 15y ago
the kindle is quite a bit cheaper than the iPad, so a lot more people will be able to afford it
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by vaksel 15y ago
I like the product, but I wish it was a bit more involved. Right now, all you do is 1 simple exercise...and it's really simple stuff. i.e. they give you an example of how to use jQuery to change the color to yellow...and the "practical" exp
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by vaksel 15y ago
nothing is stopping these guys from coding something up after work/on the weekend. Sure it'll take twice as long to release a project, but it's a small price to keep getting $20K a month salary
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by vaksel 15y ago
my guess, is you'll drag an image/text/file towards the dropbox button and it'll automatically save that
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by vaksel 15y ago
I'm subscribed to a bunch of these, and it's just a case of me being too lazy to unsubscribe. In fact, I even end up opening a bunch of them by mistake when trying to open a different email.
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by vaksel 15y ago
dating is really a niche that's more or less guaranteed slow growth, taking time off from school to pursue something this generic doesn't strike me as smart...since you'll spend a ton of time waiting for your user numbers to climb.
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by vaksel 15y ago
another part, is that selling is just plain hard(especially B2B)...and many of the startups don't have the market of customers who'll actually pay to scale their numbers.
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by vaksel 15y ago
selling out the inventory is not that hard when the volume is this low + the price is pretty low to make it affordable to a lot more people than the roadster
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by vaksel 15y ago
i think a large problem with that is that the offshoot campuses are almost always subpar to the original. Sure the degrees will still say Stanford, but the smart people will all go to California...NY Stanford will be their safety school
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by vaksel 15y ago
the "front line" can change a lot year to year...especially if the company grows...so the front line experience may not be all that relevant .
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by vaksel 15y ago
frankly I think dropping out is retarded. 1. You get your food paid for, you get your housing paid for, you have 0 expenses. 2. Schoolwork doesn't take up a lot of effort...hell you can throw it to the wind, and coast by to get all Cs, and
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by vaksel 15y ago
if Gabriel had so much trouble, I can just imagine how tough the process is for everyone else.
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by vaksel 15y ago
the traffic value of being on techcrunch has really been going downhill...they are putting out so many stories, you only get a few hours of exposure, before you end up on page 2. the real value of course is in other things...but still, high
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by vaksel 15y ago
medical, dental, discounted gym memberships etc
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by vaksel 15y ago
base pay + bonuses + current value of stock options pretty much anything minus benefits
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by vaksel 15y ago
small businesses are notorious penny pinchers, even $20/mo is a big decision for them. So doubling prices is a big problem for a lot of them...even if the actual cost is nothing compared to their other expenses.
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