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by zaidf 11y ago
1. What do you mean "if they take it..."? It is their money. They gave away personal equity that was at the time worth $6M for the cash. 2. It is ridiculous to assume they pulled any move. Startups are a high risk gamble and the
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by zaidf 11y ago
But if you are still using the table tag for anything but tabular data, you're living in the 1900s and arent cut out as a modern day web designer /snark
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by zaidf 12y ago
My advice in these cases: keep the developers pacified; in parallel hire someone who knows what they are doing, give them the Linode info and have them give you the backup. Soon after, find a new set of developers that you can trust and fir
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by zaidf 12y ago
Spotify pays the labels who pay the artists. So shouldn't the artists work on negotiating better agreements with labels? That might compel labels to negotiate a better agreement with Spotify assuming that is possible. If any party over
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by zaidf 12y ago
I rarely ever purchased music. And yet, thanks to Spotify I've been paying ~$10/mo for the last 4 years. For all the hate it gets, its turned people who rarely ever paid for music into paying for it every month.
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by zaidf 12y ago
Whoever at Kleiner decided to pay her $33,000/mo for 6 mos as severance was a genius.
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by zaidf 12y ago
Sounds almost like San Francisco.
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by zaidf 12y ago
It's very common for certain features in enterprise apps to take 5-30seconds to load. Most enterprise report generation features require a few seconds for a lot of the queries, for example.
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by zaidf 12y ago
I like cvtalize a lot more. I don't want to pick from a dozen options. I want to be able to able to organize the contents of my resume quickly and elegantly. My only issue is with the name. Hard to spell & say; easy to misspell.
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by zaidf 12y ago
It's disingenuous to suggest that they show the lyrics solely or even mostly because it makes them more money. As a user, I end up clicking on fewer ads because the lyrics are right there --not requiring a click.
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by zaidf 12y ago
How is it inferior? When I search for lyrics, most of the time I am looking for just that...lyrics. When I get clean lyrics free of popups, auto playing video ads and in one fewer click, it is superior experience than my previous experience
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by zaidf 12y ago
"forcing"? I think if you objectively reviewed Search's integration of other google services, almost every single time you will find it is to the benefit of the user(meaning they are not doing it just to get marketshare; it i
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by zaidf 12y ago
The irony is that its his funding of a photo sharing company that made it possible for him to pursue the impossible.
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by zaidf 12y ago
It's hysterical reading the drama about Uber because it misses the biggest reason why someone shouldn't use Uber: it's almost always more expensive than Lyft, at least using Line in San Francisco. This morning I got a lyft ri
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by zaidf 12y ago
Thing about git is that it is relatively easy to get started and harder to learn the more "advanced" stuff. This isn't always true with other technologies because once you get started, you can figure out the advance stuff inc
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by zaidf 12y ago
Phrased less charitably: rich people (VC partners) think paper-rich-cash-poor people should continue being cash-poor so that rich people have better negotiating leverage over them. Doesn't this work against the VCs when the startup
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by zaidf 12y ago
I graduated from UNC's Communication Studies program, one that many athletes sign up for. I took classes with many of the athletes, including half of our championship basketball team. I can honestly say I did not find any organized att
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by zaidf 12y ago
Give it costs pennies to boot up new Linux instances, I wouldn't assume this was OP's own machine.
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by zaidf 12y ago
Apple does not provide the merchant account. Apple Pay serves as the middle party between the merchant account provider(Stripe) and the user with Pay's role being to maintain cards on file and relay it securely to the merchant account
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by zaidf 12y ago
I went through YC in '07. But prior to getting into YC, I got into Techstars' very first class. David was a total class act in letting me go through the YC interview process before making a decision and completely understanding wh
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by zaidf 12y ago
It isn't that they don't want a profit, it's just that as long as they feel they can reinvest the profit relatively safely to make even more profit in the future, they will continue doing so.
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by zaidf 12y ago
So can someone explain to me the long term value of Snapchat? I've been on Facebook since 2005 and recently tried snapchat after a lot of nagging from someone. It lasted few minutes before we were back on iMessage. For me it boils down
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by zaidf 12y ago
Yahoo is a perfect example of a company that has had its foot in basically every great opportunity on the web. And yet, it sucks at basically all of them. The best thing to have happened to the Internet is Yahoo being priced out of acquirin
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by zaidf 12y ago
I wish Lyft would drop the mustache for the balloon in all their branding!
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by zaidf 12y ago
All you can ever do is invalidate one exact execution of the idea. Absolutely agree with you and I wish the folks that teach lean would emphasize this more. For every successful company, there are probably multiple teams that tried to tes
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by zaidf 12y ago
You're not taking into account the fact than what is considered bad and clunky interface today may have been the best in class 30 years ago.
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by zaidf 12y ago
This is just beating around the bush. If kickstarter wanted they could have just said that project owners are not required to provide the product since things may fail. But they don't say that because a lot fewer people would support
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by zaidf 12y ago
I wish there was an online demo. I'd like to compare it to diffbot.com(a saas tool we pay for).
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by zaidf 12y ago
This will go down as a case study on how to not publish a study for the mainstream. The reality is that companies are running experiments similar to fb all the time in order to optimize revenue. But most companies don't publish their
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by zaidf 12y ago
Too much focus on revenue and not customers can lead to missing out on great companies. For example, NetSuite was charging barely $20/mo when it launched. Today they don't take customers for less than five figures. A similar story

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