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by zaidf 16y ago
After that we'll go through our normal process of evaluating each company and deciding if we want to invest. We do not have any information advantage. We may say no to a company not because it's a bad company, but just because it's product
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by zaidf 16y ago
They should (try to) acquire Disqus.
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by zaidf 16y ago
IM RICH BIOTCH That's the assumed part.
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by zaidf 16y ago
Bingo. For all those complaining about his lack of performance here, you're kinda missing the point.. It's not Zuckerberg if he's not awkward.
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by zaidf 16y ago
Nobody's happy in this town except for the losers. Look at me, I'm miserable, that's why I'm rich. -Ari Gold
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by zaidf 16y ago
Business recommendation is where the money is in search. Google doesn't make a lot of $ when you're researching for a paper.
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by zaidf 16y ago
the screening process favors people who have experience teaching kids in front of a classroom Interesting. Some of the best tutors I had in my life had no classroom experience but were exceptional tutors who knew their stuff and knew how
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by zaidf 16y ago
And they say what is going on right now is a bubble?
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by zaidf 16y ago
Ah life! Hoping things turned out for the better for you. And thank you.
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by zaidf 16y ago
To offer another data point, I took off at 20 after 2 years of school. I returned to school at 22 with a lot more perspective and had a lot more fun. Just graduated too!
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by zaidf 16y ago
he would have given him an incentive to stay Clearly we don't know if he did. But what we do know is that guys like Adam, Paul Buchteit etc. just want to go do their own thing after a while. And we also know the tendency of founders to se
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by zaidf 16y ago
Adam will return because it will be financially rewarding. Notice even when he left, he only did so after he had fully vested. He'll get a new vesting clock with the acquisition and all will be good.
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by zaidf 16y ago
I don't think Adam would want to be bought back by Facebook and actually stay there for any significant period of time. For the right amount of money, he could stay for 3 years, the avg post-acquisition lock-in period. It'd be a win-win f
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by zaidf 16y ago
Let's not kid ourselves. Any morning we will wake up to the headline "Quora acquired by Facebook."
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by zaidf 16y ago
Bingo. When our indie music site's stream server would go down, our adsense ctrs would skyrocket. The people who come from google go apeshit and start clicking anything--especially adsense units--when the content they were expecting isn't f
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by zaidf 16y ago
As of right now you can only predict that it's a fad. Some investors predict otherwise. At least investors take risks into account while you seem convinced beyond doubt that it is a fad.
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by zaidf 16y ago
The Facebook-Bing deal might be geo-targeted and not show up from India where Paras is located.
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by zaidf 16y ago
It was only a so-so destination site with 70%(50K+ visitors) of our daily visitors coming via google search.
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by zaidf 16y ago
We made the most money(via adsense) when our music website's streaming server would go down but the site would be up. It was a painful reality.
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by zaidf 16y ago
I am visiting India surrounded by over a dozen cousins in 5-15 age range. All but a few are hooked to Bump independently(not through me). One evening the kids literally went door to door in our large extended family searching for iPhones to
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by zaidf 16y ago
Before anything you should define what constitutes simplicity for the purposes of your post . New Twitter is much more complicated than the old one. You are confusing simplicity in the user experience with simplicity in the back-end. I'd
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by zaidf 16y ago
For every 37signals there are at least just as many examples of companies that set out to build a business...and built it. I can see why scratching your own itch may be the better way in certain situations. But I can just as easily see goin
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by zaidf 16y ago
Don't set off to build a business for the sake of building a business, build something for the sake of building it and then see how it goes. How come? (I personally don't think there is a right answer here. At different stages/situations,
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by zaidf 16y ago
Build businesses, not apps. But hey, whatever floats your boat is right.
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by zaidf 16y ago
From an academic point of view, perhaps. Bit from a business point of view, the credit goes to Microsoft for recognizing a hot piece of technology, acquiring it and launching it as a cool product. Each one of those things are more difficult
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by zaidf 16y ago
I'm sorry, but this notion that a company can be made by a leveraged media event is stupid. Companies are made by having great products. The two aren't mutually exclusive. A company could be made by a leveraged media event and by having
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by zaidf 16y ago
Personally, I don't trust the folks at Dropbox much more than I trust a random hacker. (No offense, of course. I just don't know them.) It's not even a matter of a security breach. Can you really be sure that one of their interns can't gai
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by zaidf 16y ago
The writer must be a grade A lurker :) Props to them. Alas, they can't "fool" the URL: /is-angel-investing-out-of-hand-joshua-schachter-thinks-so/
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by zaidf 16y ago
Just shows the importance of context. Knowing this, it makes you sound like a smart guy picking founding over angel investing for now. The title makes you sound like some sour angel investor. Of course both things could be equally true in r
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by zaidf 16y ago
I always believed the goal of a portfolio should be to show first, tell later. IMO you have too much text. I think if you just showed me real examples of your work, it would be more powerful. We are lucky as designers/devs that we can com

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