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by wilschroter 14y ago
We've built a robust platform that will allow the HN community (and others) to make investments together exactly as you're desribing. I spoke to Sam Altman about this a few weeks ago at lunch. We're less than a month from launching so if
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by wilschroter 15y ago
I'm not sure how every aging generation is suddenly surprised that a previous generation is different in some way. It seems ridiculous to assume that with all the major changes that have happened over the last 20 years that people wouldn't
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by wilschroter 15y ago
I get so annoyed when I see people pick apart an acquisition. I saw this same behavior for Gowalla, and then Mint before it. "They didn't make any money. They sold too early." They remind me of people that would be sitting at the finish
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by wilschroter 15y ago
I have a really hard time with this. Yes, he's probably a fantastic founder and will do something great (and I hope like every other entrepreneur, he does). But I hope that aspiring entrepreneurs raising funds realize what an incredible an
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by wilschroter 15y ago
It's going to be interesting to see how companies themselves deal with the concept of having a slew of shareholders (fiduciary duty, reporting, etc.)
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by wilschroter 15y ago
I'm saying that Techstars has only had 5 years to refine itself. HBS has had over 100. I would think by that definition alone HBS should be churning out better results!
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by wilschroter 15y ago
How many $100m startups did Harvard produce in its first 5 years of founding?
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by wilschroter 15y ago
If Facebook can grow to 750m users this quickly isn't it safe to say the infrastructure/adoption exists for another company to grow to that number even faster? Let's stop pretending it's the 80's and only one company can figure out how to
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by wilschroter 15y ago
I'm not sure how people are surprised by this. If you already have the track on your hard drive and now you have to PAY to listen to it then Apple isn't really giving you anything you didn't already have (convenience, obviously). It's a n
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by wilschroter 15y ago
I think the concept of a highly enabled, connected, and active senior class has a lot more impact than people are considering. The points made about a society that financially cannot retire are powerful because it forces us to adapt a much
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by wilschroter 15y ago
There was talk that this information may expose deliberate ties to the financiers of Al Quida including Saudi royalty. Not that this is new information per se, but awfully damning evidence if its found on the hard drive of bin Laden.
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by wilschroter 15y ago
If so many people who are willing to use the app are inherently confused by the use case, isn't THAT the failure point? I don't remember being confused why Friendster was useful when it ushered in social networking. It worked because the u
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by wilschroter 15y ago
One thing I love about what this guy has done is the fact that he actually sees this stuff through. He didn't just talk about these ideas - he made them happen. It's one thing to do that for a Web site that two guys build in a room. It's
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by wilschroter 15y ago
I can't even begin to fathom the magnitude of this considering how many people likely use the same login credentials for all of their sites. The problem you run into is that communicating both the nature of the breach and convincing people
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by wilschroter 16y ago
Is it not the case that you can already attach ads to an app that ties into geolocation?
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by wilschroter 16y ago
Isn't it safe to just say that every technology fades with time? The only constant in our industry is that we will all become less relevant in time.
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by wilschroter 16y ago
I think you may be considerably overlooking the amount of integration Microsoft has into both the personal mindset of consumers as well as the enterprise. While they may in fact go the way of IBM and become less relevant over time, I would
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by wilschroter 16y ago
I know Doug Merrill personally and he's one the smartest, most forthright guys you'll ever meet. You're dead wrong to judge him otherwise on his picture or anything else.
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by wilschroter 16y ago
If not AOL, who would be the most likely (i.e. biggest cash out) for TC?
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by wilschroter 16y ago
I just use http://www.unsubscribe.com and it fixes my junk mail and mailing list problem once and for all.
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by wilschroter 16y ago
I think there's something to be said for focusing on what the market rewards, and clearly the market wasn't rewarding yahoo for having great technology in 1998. Nor did it reward Google for having great enterprise search. You can't fault
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by wilschroter 16y ago
Having lived on the east coast, midwest, and west coast, I would say the resources are certainly different at a business level (capital, talent, etc) although you can certainly make do wherever you go. However, anyone who thinks there are h
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by wilschroter 16y ago
My favorite is from Larry Ellison, who basically says "Warren Buffet told me to write this, so I did." That's what I inferred from his message, which is pure Ellison.
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by wilschroter 16y ago
FWIW I'd highly recommend considering doing it at the Coloft space in Santa Monica.