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by vidar 16y ago
They give him all the credit because that is the story given by FB, its a large part of their marketing strategy.
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by vidar 16y ago
That wouldn't be the first time I mix up my metaphors, thanks for the correction!
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by vidar 16y ago
Since people seem to dislike my comment, I will explain my point. "A home run" means "ultimate success", you can not expect to do any better than that. Since pg has openly stated that he is looking for the next Google/Facebook type compan
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by vidar 16y ago
Then they better get some hardcore Django people onboard. The reason (well, one of the reasons) that Heroku was so successful was that the top people were Ruby hackers themselves.
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by vidar 16y ago
http://djangy.com is one
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by vidar 16y ago
I don't think pg will consider an exit a home run until it exceeds 1B.
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by vidar 16y ago
This should put a hop in the step of all those Heroku-for-Django startups.
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by vidar 16y ago
In part because of YC, but in general because of, well... the internet. Stories spread.
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by vidar 16y ago
He is pointing out the hipocrisy of FB, they say that this shouldn't be possible but they make it possible as long as it is on their terms.
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by vidar 16y ago
I am pretty sure he is aware of this.
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by vidar 16y ago
Good for you, it always warms my heart to see someone taking these first steps. Try to notice your own reactions, its good to be reminded of when you yourself were a novice.
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by vidar 16y ago
Surely late is better than never.
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by vidar 16y ago
I had the same thought, Stack Overflow is the canonical iceberg in this context. I hope this will pull the blinders from some peoples eyes.
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by vidar 16y ago
Obsessive behaviour can be remedied. If you want.
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by vidar 16y ago
Sort of like asking "Am I in love?", "Am I popular?", if you have to ask, the answer is no.
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by vidar 16y ago
Heh, fair point. Just goes to show that once you label someone a startup in your head, you can be blinded to such obvious facts!
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by vidar 16y ago
It would be interesting if they managed to cut the ties to Motorola completely after the spinoff? One can imagine the BigCo mindset prevailing even after leaving the mothership.
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by vidar 16y ago
Hopefully this can evolve into being the canonical tool for data startups, data cleaning should not be a differentiating factor. Value extraction should be the differentiator.
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by vidar 16y ago
Agreed, did I read somewhere that you were contemplating offering a wireframe version as well?
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by vidar 16y ago
That mockups should be wireframes like Balsamiq. They are right that is the stronger model (I love Balsamiq) but that doesnt mean that there isnt room for other ways.
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by vidar 16y ago
Don't worry about the detractors, they may well be right but the only way to find out is to go on and make this tool as good as it can be. Then we will know if there is a market.
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by vidar 16y ago
Googling for things you dont know is a mark of intelligence, not stupidity :)
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by vidar 16y ago
Locks only keep honest people out.
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by vidar 16y ago
Can you say at least what the field was (naming names would be cruel)?
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by vidar 16y ago
If you want to do it, you haven't thought it through.
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by vidar 16y ago
Abundant prior art.
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by vidar 16y ago
This is a neat service for sure and will be useful to many. I would however like to address the following quote from the TechCrunch article: "In fact, I now assume that all flights will have Wifi, so when they don’t (eh, hem United Flight
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by vidar 16y ago
The first one "1. Creating and evaluating at the same time" is huge, see what happens in a brainstorming session when someone starts picking apart ideas. The whole session dies. There is plenty of time later to shoot down the bad stuff.
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by vidar 16y ago
If you would take a salary fit to live on (for some value of fit!) what would the numbers look like?
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by vidar 16y ago
Thats just the revenue, surely there are some costs that offset that number. Still quite nice.

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