kimmiller

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by kimmiller 14y ago
Trust HN to come up with a jock/nerd analogy to refer to a failing game start-up.
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by kimmiller 14y ago
Really? Disagree entirely. This seems very straight-forward.
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by kimmiller 14y ago
Financial ratios and/or debt covenants compared to a reserved cash account - two different things. Sure, the cash account can be a small part of a debt covenant but is usually just that - a very small part. Which debt covenants were breache
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by kimmiller 14y ago
I would have thought this outcome logical and heartening - yet journos have a history of baby/bath-water syndrome. If GDP is increasing (just, tick), large corporations are steady (fair assumption) then productivity increases are due to SME
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by kimmiller 14y ago
People seem to be running in to the same problem everywhere - online communities degrade in quality as they scale. PG spoke of this (an essay perhaps?). Why should we be surprised? Culture is the most important thing in a business, morals t
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by kimmiller 14y ago
I like to think about this criticism in the context of Twitter's recent API pullback and push towards advertising. When a start-up raises at a valuation that is high, most assume current owners win and new owners lose. Yet I contend that ev
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by kimmiller 14y ago
This iteration is for the masses, it's not for you. It's for my mother (who is taking one-on-one classes in an Apple store), it's for my partner who is just starting to get work done on her phone (she's had an iPhone 4 since they came out)
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by kimmiller 14y ago
Yep, there seems to be a theme in tech world at the moment. Semi-fashionable bloggers jumping on hot topics and taking the high-road. I won't name names, but there are a few name brand VC's who are just writing columns for the sake of getti
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by kimmiller 14y ago
opmininion, As a mass market service, Twitter has many more stakeholders than just management. And all these stakeholders have their own metrics. Unfortunately at this point for Twitter, it's not just about optimizing this metric or that.
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by kimmiller 14y ago
Too much code being committed? Too many decisions being made by engineers? Building a great product? Wow, talk about navel gazing. I get the satire point, but... This internally arrogant, externally ignorant attitude is why the stock is whe
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by kimmiller 14y ago
To add to this list: - Being a market leader in your home market is much more important (and usually cost effective) than growing internationally. Stripe still has a huge way to go in terms of 'crossing the chasm' in the US, moving out of S
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by kimmiller 14y ago
You're underestimating bandwidth. You can't buy time, it's just not that easy. If it were, every start-up that raises millions would do it. Hell, every listed company in the world would be global.
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by kimmiller 14y ago
This made me laugh. I've never heard anyone so passionately call for a stacked bar chart before - rightfully so it seems. Good job.
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by kimmiller 14y ago
Yep, this is exactly what I thought. Having done my time in Excel and VBA, I can say as soon as you need to use VBA in Excel you're at the limit of what Excel can do. It's a fantastic tool for visualising data, but as soon as you need to pa
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by kimmiller 14y ago
I'm not sure you can interpolate between the two situations. One of the potential reasons behind both of these is that being sedentary in any position is essentially bad (in one way or another - a PhD out of Australia whose name escapes me