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961.
by wheels 16y ago
These faux rebuttals seem to intentionally miss the point Mark was making: Doing a startup, the kind that Mark means, the kind that he sees -- specifically those with a story about how they're going to become billion dollar company -- works
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by wheels 16y ago
Compilation is notoriously singlethreaded, generally speaking. make -j 2 There, now it needs multiple processes. Actually, default builds on OS X often do since it's building for the 2-4 architectures that OS X supports (ppc, ppc6
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by wheels 16y ago
Six of the 25 people listed here have MBAs, and several don't mention college at all, so it's probably more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Apple_Inc._executives It actually saddens me that this article is being voted up. It's mor
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by wheels 16y ago
"Apple, which recently usurped Microsoft as the world’s largest technology firm (by market capitalisation), has hardly any MBAs among its top ranks." Tim Cook has an MBA from Fuqua, one of the top MBA programs in the US. Was that really
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by wheels 16y ago
People have been talking about how crazy deals he's lead have been already for several years. History has quickly proven them foolish.
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by wheels 16y ago
Here's the right visual: http://atdetroit.net/forum/messages/5843/178783.jpg Scoble is the ultra-fan. I wouldn't really call him a rabid self-promoter (though those are certainly around) -- he just oozes an almost naive excitement about
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by wheels 16y ago
I wonder if there's a clause that requires the ability to participate in later rounds. That would make more sense. Otherwise it's not clear that they'd be able to. Heroku raised $3m a month after demo day; I'm not sure what it would have
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by wheels 16y ago
Just because you want smart money doesn't mean you should refuse free money. If an angel were looking at a team that didn't take this money, they'd have to wonder if they were competent enough to run a business.
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by wheels 16y ago
Actually, if we assume that Heroku's post-money valuation in their first round of financing was $10m (reasonable since they raised $3m) and that they took a 30% dillution hit each time, this would have returned $2.88m to someone that got in
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by wheels 16y ago
Insofar as your observations are correct, they're a simple tautology: obviously CS has become a "boy thing" which girls avoid; one needn't look further than enrollment statistics to confirm that. The question is rather, "Why is female enro
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by wheels 16y ago
> I'm guessing they will strip back their huge international efforts (which IMHO are waste because MySpace is really a US-orientated service) Really? They're in the top 100 sites in 17 different countries; I mostly encountered them w
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Yahoo Hints At Selling Delicious—Or Giving It Away(paidcontent.org)
3 points by wheels 16y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 16y ago
> If a site respects me by allowing me to easily remove all email notifications, I'll be much more inclined to respect it back by giving it my business. In the unlikely case that this is actually true for you, not just the way that yo
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Chronic Under-financing of EU Start-ups Driven by Mindset(babblingvc.typepad.com)
6 points by wheels 16y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 16y ago
Sure -- I guess in general it wouldn't be click through rates, but click through rates on pages arrived at via search traffic. Obviously a community where members of a niche frequented a given site and clicked on related links would be dif
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by wheels 16y ago
> the real metric to look at is usage of the Google advert network on the sites themselves Right, that's what AdSense is. That probably should have been made explicit though since a lot of folks miss the distinction between AdWords a
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by wheels 16y ago
I started writing out a comment on the somewhat heretical notion that biasing search results against AdSense click throughs would probably be a strong predicter for spam detection, but the comment got long enough that I folded it into a b
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Google Spam Heresy: The AdSense Paradox(blog.directededge.com)
84 points by wheels 16y ago|35 comments
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by wheels 16y ago
I prefer 0xED.app: http://www.suavetech.com/0xed/0xed.html
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by wheels 16y ago
It's probably more about the trademark than the domain. The other company applied for the Groupon trademark as well, so trading under that name until the trademark dispute is settled could be quite problematic and using a different name
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2010 - Good venture backed IPO year(startable.com)
2 points by wheels 16y ago|0 comments
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The Private IPO(continuations.com)
3 points by wheels 16y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 16y ago
10:1 would be a fairly low P/E anytime soon for Facebook. They might need to settle there when they're a 35 year old company like Microsoft (which is currently at 12:1). Google is at 24:1 right now and Amazon and Netflix are pretty hot at
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by wheels 16y ago
The author seems to be ignorant of the fact that minimalism predates geeks discovering it. Minimalism has been prominent in art, music, linguistics, literature, philosophy, etc. for much of the last 50-100 years and no doubt has reared its
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Oracle Announces Oracle Cloud Office and Oracle Open Office 3.3(blogs.oracle.com)
3 points by wheels 16y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 16y ago
Do you seriously think this didn't occur to the Netflix management prior to the switchover? A couple points: • Netflix pulling out amid internet drama of anti-competitive behavior would hurt Amazon much worse than it would hurt Netflix. Ne
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Shopify announces 7m in financing(blog.shopify.com)
14 points by wheels 16y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 16y ago
The problem isn't the ambiguity of "first" or "original", but "cloud". As "cloud" is basically defined to whatever the marketing department has started labeling as "cloud" that week, "original cloud ..." can be similarly shoehorned.
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by wheels 16y ago
Here's the actual paper, which does name its units (international poverty line): http://www.salaimartin.com/media/pdf/Africa_Poverty_NBER.pdf And criticism of their results from someone working on producing similar numbers for the World B
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by wheels 16y ago
Uhm, they define poverty as living on less than one dollar per day. Then they show it dropping over the last 20 years ... but don't control for inflation. They show 10% improvement against a benchmark that (aside from being meaningless as

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