brucephillips

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by brucephillips 8y ago
Even if the IP allegation is illegitimate, how is such a lawsuit an instance of masculine posturing?
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by brucephillips 8y ago
> But to get there we have to train ourselves to see all these "maladies," as you say. I agree with this, but your initial comment is creating gendered maladies that don't exist. How is an IP lawsuit a gendered issue?
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by brucephillips 8y ago
If you view an IP lawsuit as masculine posturing, you should check your blind spots.
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by brucephillips 8y ago
Zimride predated Uber. Lyft predated UberX.
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by brucephillips 8y ago
Interesting. I suppose that's not too surprising, though. As a man, my biggest gripe with tinder is how much work it is.
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by brucephillips 8y ago
Maybe by market share, but Tinder predated Bumble, whereas Lyft predated Uber.
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by brucephillips 8y ago
I'm failing to see how your comment is any less cynical than the comment above.
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by brucephillips 8y ago
If one wants to start a new social network, open source or not, or any other product dependent on network effects, they have to market it appropriately. You have to segment the market, and work your way out. The open competitors up until no
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by brucephillips 8y ago
I'm a bumble user. They sent this post as an email to their user base. I don't understand what they're trying to accomplish by airing their dirty laundry publicly. Users don't care if you're in an IP battle. Also, I
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by brucephillips 8y ago
Ah, then "low end" is the more appropriate descriptor.
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by brucephillips 8y ago
Did you mean to reply to someone else? You didn't address what I said. WaPo bundles authorship and curation, which is exactly the problem I'm describing. The problem isn't cost, it's incompleteness.
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by brucephillips 8y ago
Popular curation is awful, you're right. But it remains unfortunate that old media still bundles their curation and authoring services. I'd like to see expert curation applied to the entirety of news articles.
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by brucephillips 8y ago
What do you mean "useful"? Every viable product is useful for something. That doesn't narrow it down.
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by brucephillips 8y ago
For how many of your daily searches would you prefer to use voice? Voice has much higher latency and lower bandwidth than text/vision.
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by brucephillips 8y ago
Ideally you'll work with early users who are just one or two degrees removed from yourself, so they'll feel social pressure not to ghost you.
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by brucephillips 8y ago
The biggest advice I'd add is to talk to users before buidling your MVP. You can potentially save yourself a lot of work. Also, there's a ton of details in how to identify risks and validate assumptions. Four Steps to the Epiph
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by brucephillips 8y ago
Yes, Michael Seibel, please read up on the history of Twitch.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
If you're going to complain, offer a solution. What should be illegal? Patents? Transferring patents?
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by brucephillips 9y ago
Shkreli did not increase epipen prices.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
> Cornering a drug and hiking the price simply for profit and no other legitimate reason (supply chain issue, newer/more effective version, etc...) should be illegal. This is how all patents work. Are you against patents?
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by brucephillips 9y ago
AFAIK, only the insurance companies paid his exorbitant prices.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
Nowhere in that article does it describe an actual crime that went unprosecuted. Shkreli broke the law. The financiers causing the financial collapse did not. Perhaps the laws should be changed.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
It also contradicts PG's advice that startups should hill climb.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
Interesting. What's an example of deep interoperability you'd to see that isn't currently available?
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by brucephillips 9y ago
SaaS products interoperate through APIs.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
Blackmail, economic exploitation, political repercussions including imprisonment are all real consequences of surveillence.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
TLDR: Obama is responsible for the housing bubble. Which is absurd.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
The ability for third parties to sniff your traffic is a big problem.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
I don't see how desirable unit economics refutes GP's claim that the initial market was lamp oil.
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by brucephillips 9y ago
As much as I disagree with his thesis here, the entire point of it is that YC wants to and does fund toy companies. So they're trying to solve the exact problem you're railing against.

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