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by wj 12y ago
Depends on your needs. Wave Accounting has a free tier that you could probably use. I tried it out but went back to GnuCash (also use Quickbooks for the day job) as my brain works better with double entry accounting. With Wave (or other onl
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by wj 12y ago
Why try to kill it? Why not just do it by not offering it anymore?
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by wj 12y ago
I've noticed typos in every one of his ebooks I've read. It is glaring but at the same time I can't put the books down.
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by wj 12y ago
I like it. I was looking at it for thirty seconds and came across two collections that I didn't know existed. Great to discover new stuff and I can still search if I know what I'm looking for.
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by wj 12y ago
Have you read the book From Good to Great? I've never applied, much less been accepted, but I imagine that YC helps you get the flywheel going that Jim Collins talks about. It sounds like everybody that participates says they make more
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by wj 12y ago
Looking forward to seeing it. Lots of room for innovation in the entertainment industry. I have a small web app for low budget filmmakers that a hesitate to call a startup (I think rocket growth might be particularly hard to achieve in the
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by wj 12y ago
I always enjoy these notes. Thanks for posting them.
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by wj 12y ago
I'm not getting an error. Just a spinning circle.
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by wj 12y ago
Lower spreads on the underlying transactions of mutual funds leads to lower fees in the funds that make up the 401(k) plans used by the average citizen.
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by wj 12y ago
My biggest takeaway was that everything is a negotiation whether you think about it along those lines or not. Edit: as a whole I find the ETL series more inspirational than actionable. Actionable items would differ from person to person dep
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by wj 12y ago
Because most of the speakers live within driving distance of Stanford? I would love for more schools to offer course on entrepreneurship. I'm not sure if I was ready for one while I was in college though.
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by wj 12y ago
Another great resource from Stanford on startups is their Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture series. http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html Talks have been given by some of the same people (including Marc Andreessen
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by wj 12y ago
You write that "he had a few problems that hadn't manifested themselves yet". It sounds like he would have eventually reached the same behavior pattern even had he not had that experience with mushrooms. Still, sad to hear.
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by wj 12y ago
s/sum/average I really do think that is true.
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by wj 12y ago
If anybody is working on the financial services one I would love to talk to you about it. My day job is in that industry and I think there is a ton of room for innovation. Sometimes it is hard to convince people in the industry of that as t
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by wj 12y ago
I'm uncomfortable with your generalizations (though you did account for exceptions with your last sentence). I guess I would not be so pessimistic and give founders the benefit of the doubt that they think they are building something i
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by wj 12y ago
The did offer Google Apps for Business for free for years to anybody who called themselves a business. You can still use almost all of their services for your business (Drive, Apps, Gmail) for free. They'll even give you a free phone n
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by wj 12y ago
Going through an accelerator mean you've "sold your soul"? That is a bit of a jump.
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by wj 12y ago
I'd recommend listening to this talk by Tina Seelig (head of the entrepreneurship program at Stanford): http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1549
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by wj 12y ago
Don't they only do that when placed in shared folders? Some of my Dead could maybe cause a problem (though it was all once freely available on archive.org).
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by wj 12y ago
With Dropbox upping their quotas I was literally thinking about this two days ago! I look forward to checking this out. Going to take me quite a while to finish uploading my music though.
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by wj 12y ago
Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling
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by wj 12y ago
I think the assumption was parking for work. Many times if you work in a city you end up paying $8-$20 a day to park your car for the work day.
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by wj 12y ago
This really reminds me of one of the plots in the book "The Year I Owned the Yankees" which is a novel written by a former Major League pitcher.
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by wj 12y ago
Every article about Uber, Lyft, and electric vehicles ends up with the majority of the comments saying something along the lines of, "This is stupid because it doesn't fit my situation." For what is usually such an open-minde
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by wj 12y ago
Potentially. But LA has millions of daily commuters. Automated electric cars will still clog up the freeways (thought hopefully less so due to less accidents, etc.) but the light rail should hopefully move more people quickly for 80% of the
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by wj 12y ago
If you don't want to sit behind a seat that reclines you can pay extra for the first row. Or on Southwest pay extra for boarding group A. Regardless, when you bought your ticket you buy it with the knowledge that there is a seat in fro
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HP Stream Windows laptop will be $100 less than a Chromebook(techcrunch.com)
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Interview with the writer and director of ALGORITHM(moviestud.io)
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by wj 12y ago
You could offer something of value in exchange. For example I could offer an ebook cough shameless plug cough : https://leanpub.com/ideas_are_a_dime_a_dozen And then have people send me Stellars to user id '007'

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