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by viscanti 15y ago
MVPs in Competitive/Established markets need to be exploring new solutions to the problem area, ideally with a chance of having a 10x+ improvement over established solutions. They shouldn't be poor replications of an established player wit
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by viscanti 15y ago
Actually, I think they're facing the opposite problem. They don't need more. They're already trying to do too much. Is it a checkin service or a location review service, or is it a way to find discounts? To Foursquare's credit, they real
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by viscanti 15y ago
Right. It's an arbitrary decision. The fact that they made a (arguably silly) decision doesn't prevent that decision from being called out for being silly. It is silly. G+ is certainly entitled to make whatever decisions they want to, pr
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by viscanti 15y ago
It's not at all a reductionist straw-man argument. The post I responded to argued that if more than one person flagged the post as offensive that the content should be removed. The argument assumed that there should/could be a vote on if
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by viscanti 15y ago
Seems silly. I could possibly see that point if you HAD to view his public profile, but it seems like that's entirely optional. Millions of users never see his public profile image. Those offended can simply not "follow" (circle?) him. I
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by viscanti 15y ago
I disagree. The start/end date concept facilitates working together with others in a study group setting. Everyone is at the same part of the class, and you can benefit from learning together. Finding a real-world study group for materia
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by viscanti 15y ago
Charisma and pedigree are over-rated. The problem seems to be that you think you can (or should) be good at everything. Embrace your strengths and find someone who is strong where you're weak. It might take some work to find that person
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by viscanti 15y ago
Domain registration is a loss leader for them (especially with how easy it is to find coupons online). They're hoping that cheap registration will be enough to entice someone to use their other profitable services.
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by viscanti 15y ago
It's not really about GoDaddy, or what their future position on SOPA might be. It's that if a company shows that they are clueless, people choose not to deal with them. I don't think many people actually "believe" that GoDaddy changed the
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by viscanti 15y ago
This seems like a natural extension of MIT's OCW which has been going for 10 years now. It may be influenced by Stanford's recent clases, but "reactionary" is a bit of a stretch. MIT has been giving away free classes online for a long tim
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by viscanti 15y ago
This needs to be an augmented reality mobile app. The problem on the AI side of things is that a good algorithm that reliably "learns" what Waldo looks like would need a substantial number of examples. A good solution to this would get clo
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by viscanti 15y ago
Node is popular because the initial learning curve is so easy, but I think it's a bit deceiving. There's a considerable step up from writing a basic node app and building a full "real world" app. When you first start out, you don't realize
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by viscanti 15y ago
He was pretty smart about his TV deal. He took less money to have more creative control and to have more flexibility. I don't think his "success" changes anything for the TV industry.
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by viscanti 15y ago
Even if that 99.9% could get funding early, it wouldn't be on favorable terms. What gets overlooked a lot, is the cost of selling early equity. If you don't have much traction, or even a prototype, and you do raise money, you're giving up
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by viscanti 15y ago
The interesting thing with these "freemium" companies is that there's generally a long conversion time. For many, it will take a year or more before free users covert. Each is a bit different, but last time I saw, Evernote fit that profil
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by viscanti 15y ago
Well, complete beginners probably aren't using much of the API, and the parts they would be using have been relatively stable for a while now. The node development team has done a pretty good job of indicating when apis will be deprecated
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by viscanti 15y ago
There's different stages of a company. In the beginning, when flexibility is more important, contractors might make sense. Even then, I think you're better off finding flexible developers to work with long-term, but if a contractor is the
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by viscanti 15y ago
The article seems to be in response to the recent Gowalla acquisition. If Gowalla had been successful and still used, it may have continued on. Facebook isn't shutting it down because it was a free service. They're shutting it down becau
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by viscanti 15y ago
This is one of the modules everyone starts to build themselves, then realizes there's a much better version already built.
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by viscanti 15y ago
It makes sense from the investor's perspective. They weren't going to get a better, more lucrative exit. Gowalla would probably just whither and die eventually. Instead, now the investors get to talk about how they had a "successful" exi
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by viscanti 15y ago
I think the idea of security still exists, regardless of the viability of one particular group of pirates. Given a big enough target, someone will be motivated to come see what they can get. The question really is, what level of protectio
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by viscanti 15y ago
Only if the only way to build something is by being an expert. It's possibly to "adequately" or "poorly" build something without being an expert.
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by viscanti 15y ago
You're missing the point. Carrier IQ enables several different levels of functionality. It can allow anonymous usage tracking (like what Apple allows you to opt-in to), or it can log every keystroke. Apple hasn't ever had the key-logging
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by viscanti 15y ago
I can't resent anyone for looking to make money, but it seems like the problem they're trying to solve is that they don't have enough money in their pockets. If the focus was on solving an actual real-world problem, and building on a pre-e
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by viscanti 15y ago
Teams aren't constructed to pivot, but that's kind of the point of Lean Startup. You should ideally be able to validate an idea with a skeleton crew (or an individual). The bigger the team necessary to validate the issue (some problems ar
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by viscanti 15y ago
I think that's a big part of it. The more "science" starting a company becomes, the more we'll see "analytical" people drawn to it. When starting a company, you'll never have perfect information. You can make more informed decisions, but
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by viscanti 15y ago
I don't want to sound like I'm over qualifying things, but it really depends on the situation. For most applications http.createServer will be robust enough for production. There are node based solutions for dealing with load balancing, t
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by viscanti 15y ago
I understand they want some flexibility, but it would be nice to know what classes will be offered in the future, so I can plan accordingly. The ML class is being offered again but the AI class isn't. There's 4 or 5 I'd like to take from
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by viscanti 15y ago
Seeking Alpha had some good analysis on this earlier in the year. http://seekingalpha.com/article/245326-is-facebook-already-o... TLDR: Facebook's value should probably be closer to 11 Billion rather than 100 billion.
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by viscanti 15y ago
FB doesn't need to justify their valuation. They didn't set it. It's unfortunate that it's so high. I think their valuation is a weight around their necks. They're expected to "figure it out", and eventually justify it, and it's a lot o

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