johnl

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by johnl 15y ago
Hollywood controls the distribution pipeline (Theater,TV,DVD,etc) and the timing of each (the release). Hollywood advertises each to build up demand. So you can also beat Hollywood by solving the "advertising to build up demand" over the in
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by johnl 15y ago
You could model after the pharmaceutical companies where the drug gets a waiting period before generics can compete. Use 12 months, Require downloadable files be zipped with a header that can be searched and automatically deleted.
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by johnl 15y ago
I noticed the same thing, though: maps and local services, public affairs, and business operations sound like departments best lead one on one. I would assume the departments in the inner circle have more need for coordination and direct le
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Economist Innovation Awards(economist.com)
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by johnl 15y ago
I search forums for DIY home projects and have found I need at least 10 responses to my question before I can arrive at a result I feel comfortable with. Going back over the responses with the overview from the search, I can now understand
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by johnl 15y ago
How about a display ad presenter that a user places at the bottom of their blog or their posterous. It doesn't pop up or jump around but needs to be dragged up as if you are resizing your window in order to view the ad. The ads would compe
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by johnl 15y ago
I always thought that the best way to avoid losing a lot of money is to diversify and avoid leverage. Derivatives is leverage big time, it's speculation, not investing, you can lose much more than you invested. Diversify and avoiding levera
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by johnl 15y ago
It's just another form of stock options except cash always sounds better if the stock is going nowhere or your company doesn't have any stock to give. It's also an approximate 10% yearly bonus held for 5 years. I would rather have the bonu
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by johnl 15y ago
Plotted against years in business would give me a measure of where I am based upon my experience.
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by johnl 15y ago
Maybe requiring registering and stress testing of HFTs over a specific volume is a solution. Or as a cost of registering a HFT is a requirement to "make the market" whether the HFTer likes to or not , there should be plenty of opportunities
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by johnl 15y ago
Maybe Microsoft will have to redesign both the operating system and the PC architecture so that the PC still does the stuff of old on one half and competes with the cloud on the other.
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by johnl 15y ago
Doesn't F3 in Firefox do the same thing? Then F3 for next instance, etc.
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by johnl 15y ago
Seems like there are a lot of directions these guys could go if the original direction doesn't take off. Might try downloadable-auto updated scrape books. Also know of a few companies making a living off of renting and selling copies of pho
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by johnl 15y ago
It could also be a hedge position by someone who sees the trade as insurance on an existing portfolio and not a outright bet.
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by johnl 15y ago
I think of RAA when I think of project management. R=Responsibility A=Authority A=Accountability Make sure the team member understands what his Responsibility on the project is. Make sure the team member has the Authority to carry out thei
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by johnl 15y ago
When I played American Army a while back I was placed in jail for a cool down period when I hit one of my own team mates. Seems like Google ought to do the same thing, sweep the accounts looking for red flags and place into limbo. Write a p
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by johnl 15y ago
I would think businesses could use the "public circles" for event marketing and give Google an entry into display marketing.
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by johnl 15y ago
Here is a good follow up article about Myspace. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_27/b42350539... Article gives a good overview of the type of corner both Facebook and Google don't want to be in.
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by johnl 15y ago
Business really seems to like Facebook. More and more I see "check us out on our Facebook page". I want to see how Google addresses the display ad advantage Facebook presently has.
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by johnl 15y ago
Companies that can maintain relatively high margins operate in niche markets. Groupon is anything but. I think what will be Groupon's downfall however will be against someone who can market to as large a group of "local and interested" peop
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by johnl 15y ago
I break the goal into doable tasks and challenge myself towards the accomplishment of each task. Each task has a timeline so I can pace myself. I then know when in the future I an going to be complete so I really don't worry about it, I ca
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by johnl 15y ago
I don't know if it's the male/female thing. I think it is a "amount of discussion" thing. Women discuss the topic more without being positional so a larger quorum is reached. The men are too hierarchy oriented which results in a small quor
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by johnl 15y ago
For a senior coder, comments may feel redundant but for the junior coder, it helps. If they can't comment the program from beginning to end, they haven't thought the logic through enough to write clean code. And what I like about well writt
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by johnl 15y ago
Those are good questions if I was sitting next to one in a bar and starting up a conversation maybe but since most of the questions can be answered on the VC's web site (including lists of companies they have already funded), in an intervie
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by johnl 15y ago
I am going to get slammed for this but I really doubt if they care. 7.84M shares was the IPO makes a total of 94.5M shares outstanding. That's less than 10% outstanding if I am reading the press correctly. The other 90%+ shareholders will w
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by johnl 15y ago
The way PG controls comments here is with the up-vote down-vote ranking. It works in separating the article discussions from the opinion oriented posts. Without the ranking the opinions mix with the article oriented posts, creates a sloppy
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by johnl 15y ago
Hardly, here's why: If you can link the phone with desktop applications you have a hit that neither Apple or Google can duplicate. Think of you desktop as a server for your phone. Who better to coordinate the operating systems of the two th
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by johnl 16y ago
This is why you want to deal with a ycombinator from the getgo. Poking around and signing contracts to get some momentum going could end up biting you in the leg down the road.
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by johnl 16y ago
The grass patterns say technology is changing the game. Same with Golf (distance) and Basketball (height). Haven't seen it in football or baseball though.
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by johnl 16y ago
At least I find it impossible to find anything in my email archives. So maybe an app like a bicycle wheel, the emails come in, route to the hub, and get directed elsewhere. Digital magazines are getting pretty snazzy, but should end up on y

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