wensing

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   by wensing 16y ago

   I remember Fred Wilson saying that Twitter is building a war chest to prove that it's going to be around for the long haul, which is important to know if you're building something on the Twitter platform. (Of course, since then Twitter has
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   by wensing 16y ago

   Are there any great companies in your area? The kind that hire really smart recent college grads? Have any friends that work at a place like that? It's a long shot, but those places can be breeding grounds for the 'quit the cube' type of
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   by wensing 16y ago

   I think the right answer would involve a hack that bent or even broke the written rules but made everyone wealthier (better off) in the end.
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   by wensing 16y ago

   Yes. Launch, smaunch. You'll be launched when people start telling their friends about it.
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   How Yammer Won 80% of the Fortune 500(mashable.com)

   3 points by wensing 16y ago|3 comments
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   by wensing 16y ago

   How does Flash compete with the App Store more than HTML5? By having a mass market share that makes it competitive. "HTML5" does not (by comparison).
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   by wensing 16y ago

   Will do! Thanks.
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   by wensing 16y ago

   Would like to see examples of successful AngelList applications. Applied recently and wasn't about to get any intros out of it.
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   Articulate or die: why you must have a written value proposition(wensing.tumblr.com)

   1 points by wensing 16y ago|0 comments
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    by wensing 16y ago

    Latest version: "Stormpulse delivers high-fidelity weather intelligence."
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    by wensing 16y ago

    http://wensing.tumblr.com - what I'm learning about life and business through the act of starting up Stormpulse
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    by wensing 16y ago

    The way Brian is running away with the votes says a lot about the hopes and dreams of the entrepreneurs that heard him. PG's advice that he "talk about when he was hopeless and obscure" was spot on.
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    by wensing 16y ago

    You can vote for multiple. :-)
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    Poll: Your favorite presentation at Startup School 2010?

    36 points by wensing 16y ago|11 comments
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    by wensing 16y ago

    Andy Bechtolsheim - Founder Arista Networks; Founder, Sun Microsystems
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    Dalton Caldwell - Founder, Picplz; Founder, Imeem
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    Brian Chesky - Founder, Airbnb
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    Ron Conway - Partner, SV Angel
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    Adam D'Angelo - Founder, Quora
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    Paul Graham - Partner, Y Combinator; Founder, Viaweb
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    Reid Hoffman - Partner, Greylock; Founder, LinkedIn
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    Andrew Mason - Founder, Groupon
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    Greg McAdoo - Partner, Sequoia Capital
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    Tom Preston-Werner - Founder, GitHub
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    Mark Zuckerberg - Founder, Facebook
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    by wensing 16y ago

    skedfly.com -- was thinking of doing something related to flight scheduling (and the weather maybe? :-))
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    by wensing 16y ago

    "AdGrok and 6 other startups" -- can someone expand this list?
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    by wensing 16y ago

    Traveling salesman solution, please? Here's your input: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&#...
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    by wensing 16y ago

    Sorry, I have to choose multiple for various reasons: AirBnB, because it appears to be immensely profitable and those guys worked hard in some very creative, unorthodox ways to get it going. Justin.TV, because the founders have always been
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    by wensing 16y ago

    When people ask about your startup you should have the confidence of a Noble Prize-winning economist being interviewed by an 11th-grade economics student.