jwesley

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by jwesley 13y ago
Fair enough, I see your point and completely agree that all currencies are based on belief. I guess that why I am all over the internet all day long trying to convince bitcoin is worth a shot.
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by jwesley 13y ago
Bitcoin doesn't need credibility. It just needs to work. Hype and speculators are a natural product of the energy gathering around the massive technical innovation and corresponding social movement that is Bitcoin.
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by jwesley 13y ago
People should have the freedom to make those security choices for themselves. People who are scared by the security issues of Bitcoin can avoid it, or only use it when the efficiency benefits are advantageous to them.
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by jwesley 13y ago
All the recent politically oriented attacks on Bitcoin are completely devoid of logical analysis and steeped in establishment dogma. They use name calling tactics like "play money" and "beenie babies fad" and scare tacti
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by jwesley 13y ago
It's because Bitcoin is truly a massive political issue, with the potential to completely overhaul existing power dynamics. It is Establishment Leftism vs everyone else, and the battle lines are being drawn.
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by jwesley 13y ago
Bitcoin is a much different investment than stock in established companies or national currencies. It is much similar to high risk / high reward investments in uncertain technology ventures, like angel and VC investing. What it also ha
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by jwesley 15y ago
If anything Google has gained some share since then. The biggest change has been that it continues to suck more and more traffic away with ads, YouTube listings, Google Places listings, shopping results, Google's in house affiliate ads, Goo
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by jwesley 15y ago
I would guess 500 or so. I think people still have a lot of enthusiasm, but camping out and taking care of all the practical details is exhausting and that is starting to show. I think it's extremely important that this movement gets moved
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by jwesley 15y ago
It's hard to say. There were definitely representatives from every part of that spectrum. I think the important thing to grasp is that this movement transcends ideologies. The main commonality is that people believe the system is broken and
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by jwesley 15y ago
I was there mainly as a spectator, but did get on the mic for about a minute to share a few thoughts. My main goal was to converse with people on a individual level. My personal goal is to wake people up to the brokenness of our political s
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I was at Occupy Los Angeles all day yesterday and would love to answer questions
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by jwesley 17y ago
That's why Google is rolling out flat rate click pricing in many local verticals. They take the conversion data from advertisers using website optimizer and use it to help less sophisticated businesses compete against them.
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by jwesley 17y ago
You really need to refine the concept of exactly what your product does and the language you use to communicate that to users. Spending a few minutes on the site, I can tell it's for education but not much more than that. I get the idea you
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by jwesley 17y ago
You are disappointed in Mixergy because of your own short attention span? Why is that a problem with Mixergy. If you looked around you would also notice there are transcripts and text summaries. What I like to do is put it on in the backgro
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by jwesley 17y ago
Aaron is really out of his range of expertise with this one. Did he just read a book on Adwords or something? Almost as bad as his attempt to re-explain Keynesian economics to the world. Among other things, his comments about Google not tr
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by jwesley 17y ago
"Talent" in finance is not equal to raw skill and intelligence. A great deal of an bank employee's value is connections across the finance industry and access to inside information. While there are many highly intelligent people in the worl
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by jwesley 17y ago
There is a high likelihood of causation though, simply because many jobs (especially in the healthcare industry) require an associate's degree. For many people earning those degree help them go from minimum wage jobs to 30-40K per year.
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by jwesley 17y ago
Bing.com/twitter is actually pretty cool for topics that have recently been in the news, especially the most shared links. On the other hand, if you search for anything that is not news oriented and is highly commercial, the results are sup
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by jwesley 17y ago
You need a tagline explaining what the site is for. "For iPhones Apps" left me wondering, yea but the WTF for iPhone apps? You should help people browse apps more effectively. Lead them into different categories. Highlight the most popular
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by jwesley 17y ago
As a corollary to this, I think it's important to understand that only certain types of companies and entrepreneurs benefit from giving out business advice to the entire world. Generally, these are the types of businesses that greatly benef
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by jwesley 17y ago
I don't disagree with you, but being in the right place at the right time usually means putting yourself out there by constantly searching for opportunities and trying (and failing) many times. Once you find yourself in the right place at t
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by jwesley 17y ago
What it helps a lot with are the terms of the deal. If you NEED the money to keep your company afloat investors are going to put the screws to you for a much lower valuation.
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by jwesley 17y ago
The reason that losers are losers is that they don't have the balls to start their own company or seize power within an organization. They are free to attempt those things, but they don't, either because they fear risk, don't understand the
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by jwesley 17y ago
Good link, terrible headline. The link us an interesting video about the benefits of taking a year long sabbatical every seven years, but it doesn't claim that the sabbatical is what made Stefan Sagmeister a design genius. He was insanely t
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by jwesley 17y ago
This is really a fitting follow up to the top 30 entrepreneurs under 30. Which really should be called the top feel good media stories under 30, because the majority of their companies don't break $1MM in revenue. How quaint! I am convinced
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by jwesley 17y ago
MBA is probably not worth it unless you can get into a top 10 program and want to be an investment banker or biz dev guy whose only real asset is a rolodex (which is really a significant asset). The fact this guy needed to write a blog post
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by jwesley 17y ago
"Incidentally, we're one of the very few media companies (let alone b2b media companies) making money right now." Not every media company is a dying newspaper, and a lot of them besides yours make money. Unless you have access to the financ
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by jwesley 17y ago
Similar to what Mark Cuban has said about business (paraphrasing) that it's non-stop competition. 24 hours a day there is somebody out there trying to kick your ass.
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by jwesley 17y ago
Does anyone else assume that whenever the price of an acquisition isn't flaunted that it must be some very low number and that "acquisition" really means cutting your losses and taking whatever you can get?
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by jwesley 17y ago
That guy is setting himself up to have his time wasted by an endless string of idiots. If you offer to work for free, that is exactly the value people will place on the work you do.

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