jiffylu

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Hacking Pinterest
3 points by jiffylu 15y ago|2 comments
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by jiffylu 15y ago
Does anyone have a list of lawmakers who are supporting SOPA?
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by jiffylu 15y ago
I accidentally tweeted it. I didn't notice that the tweet button was checked as I published it. No one follows that blog except for a few close friends.
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by jiffylu 15y ago
San Francisco, CA Dailyaisle.com - www.dailyaisle.com http://dailyaisle.tumblr.com/ We are in the 500 Startups Summer accelerator class and are looking for talented front-end developers or designers. This is a great opportunity to join a
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Natalie Portman Effect: using design to smooth over the ineffectual (product)(carlacasilli.posterous.com)
4 points by jiffylu 16y ago|0 comments
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by jiffylu 16y ago
Similar to http://www.synchtube.com/
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by jiffylu 16y ago
This seems right up USV's alley too. Marketplaces and platforms. If I remember correctly, USV didn't exactly pass, but made a play around the time Sequoia did.
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Kinect Home Automation and Lighting Control(youtube.com)
1 points by jiffylu 16y ago|0 comments
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Why Silicon Valley trumps Boston (data)(venturebeat.com)
2 points by jiffylu 16y ago|1 comments
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by jiffylu 16y ago
Your monetization strategy should be... if you're calling at&t about a service issue, verizon could pay to be notified with the opportunity to respond to the call first and win your business.
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by jiffylu 16y ago
Kayak- I think the biggest difference is the funding environment. In a way, it's a networks effect problem. There are consumer Internet companies that made it big in the valley, in the process, creating millionaires who "get" consumer Inter
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Opening Board Meetings to the Entire Company(venturehacks.com)
2 points by jiffylu 16y ago|0 comments
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Examples of successful series-A pitch decks(quora.com)
47 points by jiffylu 16y ago|0 comments
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by jiffylu 16y ago
I personally don't understand Bryce's action. If he doesn't believe in social proof, he should just invest independent of who else is investing. It seems a bit drastic to leave the service. Also, Angel List doesn't push any investment philo
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by jiffylu 16y ago
I would try reaching out to the founders of these companies. They will recognize your email right away as a customer development effort and will sympathize with your cause since they were in your shoes one before. One thing I've done in the
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by jiffylu 16y ago
So... they own the stories we create? I was going to say, this would be a great way to write open source text books but not if Neovella owns the content. "2. Copyright. The content, organization, graphics, design, and other matters related
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by jiffylu 16y ago
This article is more about if you were in Groupon's shoes could you have done the following... Yes. I think I could build my own Groupon... in fact hundreds of people have and many are quite profitable. Could I build it to scale? Could I bu
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by jiffylu 16y ago
Does anyone know how much it costs them to acquire a new number? In other words, every time a user creates a new group, they are assigned a number. How much does that cost GroupMe?
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by jiffylu 16y ago
Yeah I heard they were heavily targeting CMU. Here are some pictures of the new offices. http://www.businessinsider.com/google-pittsburgh-office-2011...
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by jiffylu 16y ago
Mark is right to point out that each geographic region has its advantages. Places like Boston may not be known for home runs in the consumer space but because of MIT, it's been known to produce some heavy tech winners (A123 systems, ITA, ki
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by jiffylu 16y ago
Mint used a combination of paid search and SEO/blogging strategy to get their first couple thousand users. Dave McClure and Noah Kagan worked on that for over a year while Aaron Patzer & Co. worked on the product. Dave talks about that
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by jiffylu 16y ago
I think people are getting too caught up with the dish washing element of the story. The point of the story is about taking ownership and doing whatever it takes to move the company forward. Early on at Reddit, Alexis Ohanis did all the "bi
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by jiffylu 16y ago
Founders Den has gotten some press recently: http://www.foundersden.com/
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by jiffylu 16y ago
Reading up on tech news helps as you run into tech debates such as html5 vs. flash. There are free MIT classes on opencourseware that have helped me bridge the tech gap. I've taken a few courses on the site on my own time and I still can't