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by apollo 15y ago
I think this was derived from Ed Catmull's talk at Stanford. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h2lvhzMDc
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by apollo 15y ago
So why require Facebook to register on Canvas?
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by apollo 15y ago
What does this mean for the PayPal Adaptive Payments API and marketplaces that rely on it such as tinypay.me?
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by apollo 15y ago
1) Provide an api (or release a dataset) and let people experiment with new ranking schemes. 2) The influence of your votes on ranking could be correlated to your relative importance in the community. You could do this with a simple PageRan
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Lean Startup Bundle for SXSW for $99(appsumo.com)
20 points by apollo 16y ago|3 comments
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by apollo 16y ago
Ebay is a deceptive example; auctions inherently have powerful network effects. I think Amazon might be a slightly better example: tons of competition but still a lot of money to be made. There can be many winners in this market, and Groupo
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by apollo 16y ago
As your first sentence indicates, in this scenario you have specific, attainable goals. Just getting to that point goes a long way towards beating procrastination.
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by apollo 16y ago
Bill Gates (44.2%) , Pierre Omidyar (32.5%), and Larry Ellison (30.6%) are the top three in terms of Pre-IPO ownership. I wonder how they managed that. Also, Microsoft only had 5.4% VC ownership pre-IPO.
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by apollo 16y ago
If you live in California there's an annual minimum franchise tax of $800, plus whatever annual fees are charged by the state you incorporate your LLC in.
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by apollo 16y ago
This may be a bit of a tangent, but I want to see the results of the VC system survey.
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by apollo 16y ago
Groupon, because they found a simple multi-billion dollar business hiding in plain sight.
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by apollo 16y ago
In terms of actual solutions, I think programs like KIPP are promising. If someone can demonstrate the right way to run a school system on a small scale, we can learn from it and encourage adoption of those changes nationally.
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by apollo 16y ago
Sarah specifically notes "This is not a zero-sum game. Both waves will find funding," so she agrees with you (despite the headline). I think this is worth talking about though, since Thiel has signaled that Founder's Fund is transitioning t
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by apollo 16y ago
Ah, I should've been clearer: I meant putting your email in the "about" field for others to see.
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by apollo 16y ago
I have my email listed in my profile
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Poll: Why don't you have your email in your HN profile?
10 points by apollo 16y ago|19 comments
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by apollo 16y ago
I'm avoiding spam
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by apollo 16y ago
I haven't gotten around to it
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by apollo 16y ago
I'd rather stay anonymous/pseudonymous
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by apollo 16y ago
I don't want to communicate with other HN users
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by apollo 16y ago
Other
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by apollo 16y ago
I think this is the reasoning behind the Facebook Questions product that they're trying out right now. If it works, it's a way to harvest intent.
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by apollo 16y ago
Jacques, I'm curious as to where you put your effort in terms of marketing (contacting people to get backlinks, SEO optimization, etc) and in the end, what were the main sources of that steady growth in the second graph? Or did you just ign
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Ask PG: On competing with Google: how about human-powered algorithms?
2 points by apollo 16y ago|0 comments
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by apollo 16y ago
Yahoo's goal with BOSS is to fragment the search market; Google is so far ahead that Yahoo knows they can't compete head-on. Google doesn't want the search market to be fragmented; they want to dominate the market. I think that's why Google
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by apollo 16y ago
I think HN could charge a lot for a job board. I think this is the site with the highest concentration of people I would want to hire.
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Ask HN: Why did Wikia Search fail?
2 points by apollo 16y ago|0 comments
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by apollo 16y ago
At first I thought the numbers were number of searches, but they're not. For example, according to AdWords, "how can i be on made" is searched less than 10 times a month globally. The numbers shown are number of results.
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What data sources do Demand Media and Zenedy use for analysis?
2 points by apollo 16y ago|0 comments
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by apollo 16y ago
The decision to do bootcamp on Mac was strategic because there was a ton of software that was windows-only, and for many people a windows pc was necessary even if their primary computer was a mac. In the case of mobile phones, Apple is way

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