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by viscanti 15y ago
I disagree. You need to solve a problem you're passionate about. Not all problems are BIG problems that require massive scale or raising money. Lifestyle startups aren't a myth. They're just working on a different scale of problem than t
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by viscanti 15y ago
You'd rule out all the legitimate users and only be left with people trying to break in. That strategy would only work on a honey-pot site.
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by viscanti 15y ago
This is actually the perfect analogy, you just didn't realize it. The iPod came in to a world where there were already mp3 players, but they were all pretty lousy from a design/user standpoint. Apple won the mp3 player market because they
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by viscanti 15y ago
The concrete things to do are build, measure, iterate. I think the case studies in the book are extremely helpful to entrepreneurs. I think you need to have some entrepreneurial experience to get much out of it though. Until you've run i
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by viscanti 15y ago
There's a couple reasons for the screencaps you're seeing. The first is that anything you talk to will be perceived as having a personality. It's either robotic and boring, or it does something else. The second, and more important reason
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by viscanti 15y ago
I agree. I think safeguards need to be put in place. I think it's OK for a computer algorithm to use historical information to provide relevant ads and filter out all the rest. Ideally, no one else would have any access to that data. It
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by viscanti 15y ago
Relevant advertising is relevant. Everything else is a waste of everyone's time (yours and the advertisers). Steps should be taken to safeguard privacy (you should never get a letter blackmailing you because of what you've done in the pas
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by viscanti 15y ago
This really helps. I once spent a couple weeks trying to figure something out. A quick trip to the local coffee shop and a chat with a fellow programmer fixed things. By the time I was done explaining where I was, I already saw where the
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by viscanti 15y ago
That explanation misses a lot of context. It comes across as a criticism, as if Jobs just didn't see the benefit of research. That's not the case. He wanted to shrink the things they focused on, so they could put their 'A' team on every
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by viscanti 15y ago
Fair enough, that's a valid question. I arrived at my assertion by looking at the financials. http://investor.google.com/financial/2005/tables.html Google make the vast majority of their money through ads (no surprise). Adwords didn't
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by viscanti 15y ago
Google didn't gain a competitive advantage because they were profitable early (they were profitable, but only marginally so). They had an advantage because of the traction (significant year over year growth) they had as well as their abili
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by viscanti 15y ago
The IT industry is one of only a very few that can leverage technology so successfully. This allows for some unique opportunities (like "lifestyle businesses") that you don't see parallels to in other industries. One guy with some skill, a
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by viscanti 15y ago
I disagree. Wave's biggest problem was that it wasn't user friendly. If you wanted to search for open topics, you needed to use under documented search modifiers. It worked just fine for most early adopters, but never gained traction bec
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by viscanti 15y ago
SunSpider results show that the browser is twice as fast as the previous generation. The processor is twice as fast with a 7x graphics performance improvement. That's a substantial improvement over an already good product. When you say pe
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by viscanti 15y ago
Obvious link-bait. What the author hates most is the fact that he didn't write the book, and isn't as successful of a writer. The 4-hour work week isn't for everyone. There's all kinds of businesses, but the 4-hour work week can turn peo
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by viscanti 15y ago
I wondered the same thing when the iPad 2 was labeled as a "marginal" upgrade. Any time you more than double the performance of something, that's hardly a marginal upgrade. No one would consider doubling the horsepower in their car a marg
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by viscanti 15y ago
If clock speed is a primary concern, you probably don't want an ultraportable. It's one of the tradeoffs with having a smaller, more portable machine. Sure, some will do better or worse, but if you NEED the extra processing power, there a
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by viscanti 15y ago
I disagree. I think a lot of uninitiated potential haskell users are turned off by hearing about the "scary" learning curve. The key is to forget everything you know about imperative programming going in. There's a temptation to compare
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by viscanti 15y ago
It is overly specific, but it's probably the easiest to understand explanation for someone who is familiar with imperative programming. Concurrency, continuations and exception monads are all likely more difficult to grasp. A more accurate
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by viscanti 15y ago
InDinero does a great job of getting PR. It seems like I come across an article about them at least once a month (if not more). It's a strategy a lot of entrepreneurs could learn from. I'd love to hear what they're doing from a PR strate
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by viscanti 15y ago
Monads offer a level of abstraction over non-functional parts (anything that might have side effects) of a functional program. In functional programming, the idea is that every time you put something into a function, you should get the sam
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by viscanti 15y ago
I agree. A curated list would whittle the list down to a much more manageable size. Most of the things listed are either very obvious (i.e. if you don't know what Ruby on Rails is before reading that list, you're not likely to find any va
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by viscanti 15y ago
Instagram solved the problem of sterile looking mobile photos. Most people taking mobile photos are amateurs, and can use any help they can get to make their photos look better. That's why instagram succeeds. There's a lot of people who
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by viscanti 15y ago
I've never understood what problem color.com is trying to solve. They seem to have been in the photo sharing business before, but that problem seemed solved to me. I had a range of options how/where I wanted to share my photos. Those all
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by viscanti 15y ago
The threading model in Haskell (GHC) would be ideal, as it's essentially abstracted away from the developer. There's certainly the potential for a performance advantage there as well as easier to maintain code. The advantage Node.js has,
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by viscanti 15y ago
Not weak at all. There's a bias on the Android platform to the top games (or apps). It's probably not surprising at all that a top app would do well there. But overall the platform is less lucrative for the majority of developers. There'
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by viscanti 15y ago
http://www.bgr.com/2011/04/05/mlb-com-ceo-android-users-less... The Android platform offers a broad range of possible devices. There's a plethora of low end devices that account for almost no purchases. If you're looking anecdotally, mo
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by viscanti 15y ago
The issue with the Android platform, and these new low cost devices perpetuate, is that Android users spend significantly less on apps. Android is getting good traction in the low end smart phone market, but those people just aren't buying
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It depends on the school you attend. The networking effect is bigger than just the people you attend class with, although those connections are often very valuable. Most MBA students aren't studying for entrepreneurship. They're someone w
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by viscanti 15y ago
Starting a business is only half the battle (at best). The biggest value of the MBA is the networking that happens. You're meeting people who will go on to work in a diverse set of industries. It's not uncommon for an entrepreneur with a

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