littleidea

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by littleidea 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_national_product I can't tell if you are being sarcastic. 15 trillion, in it's secret double life, looks suspiciously like 15,000,000,000,000.
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by littleidea 13y ago
If the constraints must allow for traction to start with 'a single web developer anywhere in the world', then I agree that significantly reduces the markets available. Energy, computer hardware, medical, pharmaceutical, telcom, these are bi
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by littleidea 13y ago
Disagreeing with people is not an ad hominem. Nor is being disagreeable for that matter... I was dismissive and probably impolite. I apologized. You didn't answer my question, so I'll ask it again, what makes you believe that an MVP will be
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by littleidea 13y ago
My apologies if you were offended, I didn't think that I was particularly aggressive. Certainly not compared to what is possible... I think I understood your argument, I just disagree with what you are asserting and your conclusion. There i
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by littleidea 13y ago
If the goal to stay small and unfunded, I still take the position that you should look for the largest market you can realistically provide solutions for. A single programmer writing CRUD apps isn't going to become a competitive telco. I'm
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by littleidea 13y ago
What makes you believe that an MVP will be more salable in a small market? I see no model or evidence to support this thinking. I also believe you are too focused on 'minimal' at the expense of 'viable' in MVP. If you have relatively a rela
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by littleidea 13y ago
Your intuition is not entirely correct. Competition and the size of the market are not always correlated. The superior strategy is to maximize returns against efforts, not minimize potential for competition. The essential argument is that a
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by littleidea 13y ago
Nothing about what has been built or blogged makes me believe this person really understands products or markets. The logic of the points that are being made is flawed, starting with repeatedly conflating building a product for a small mark
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by littleidea 14y ago
Interesting information that I'm genuinely interested in but the execution and delivery leave me scratching my head. The operating system and web server graphs make no sense. mod_ssl? varnish? Makes me question what was asked and who was an
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Flipped Classrooms Give Every Student A Chance To Succeed(schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com)
6 points by littleidea 15y ago|1 comments
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by littleidea 15y ago
the link isn't just down, the domain is not resolving for me now
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Extroverts, Introverts, Aspies and Codies(ribbonfarm.com)
5 points by littleidea 15y ago|0 comments
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by littleidea 15y ago
I really like the high level concept, but I dislike the poke the mutable state, disregard Demeter, nested if-else style of programming that the warrior api encourages. Don't take it too harshly, I definitely like what you are trying to do w
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by littleidea 15y ago
The author edited the post since my response. I used the word lifestyle because that was the word he used. There are a lot of options. Infinite options. There is also a big difference in potential risk and outcomes of those options. There i
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by littleidea 15y ago
I couldn't disagree more. In this case, being more specific is only going to multiply the gossip and opinion. There is more than enough data in the google doc to support a discussion. Furthermore, you now have comments from people who have
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by littleidea 15y ago
That is sort of the point, chasing funding can be a huge distraction. If an incubator can't provide significant advantages to doing so, what are they helping with? In some circumstances, maybe something else significant. I disagree with you
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by littleidea 15y ago
Sounds like a great opportunity. Rock out. If the incubator is specifically trying to develop lifestyle business in Chile, win and win. With the possible reservation that if you truly get to product-market fit and it's a lifestyle business,
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by littleidea 15y ago
These things are not mutually exclusive. Most incubators can be ghettos AND there can be too many. While I partially support the algae bloom theory, I am asserting there are companies that deserve incubation and believe they are, but are in
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by littleidea 15y ago
There are some things my discretion says should not be made publicly specific. While everyone is entitled to have different sensibilities, I don't understand why you would refuse to discuss this in the abstract. I'm not sure what you actual
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by littleidea 15y ago
I agree that is very valuable, and there are other valuable aspects of the incubator experience that are omitted as well. This schedule pressure and the support of colleagues can contribute to successfully creating a fundable opportunity. I
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by littleidea 15y ago
a) once popular catch phrase? because of Zed? granted it's hyperbolic and cliche, but most titles are, by design b) If you want to discuss in private, I can give names and numbers. There are real people with real feelings and real money inv
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by littleidea 15y ago
Defensible position supported with logic. I might even go a step further an add that in some sense Facebook has already been publicly traded on secondary markets for some time. Fortunes were already made there. The world will watch this IPO
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by littleidea 15y ago
looks like a list with no real data for most of them
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Ask HN: Does anyone have statistics on incubators?
1 points by littleidea 15y ago|2 comments
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by littleidea 15y ago
Rational agents at a Nash Equilibrium.
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by littleidea 15y ago
Those are great questions. I'm not sure the answer is clear. What I do know for sure is the current system for paid research and funding is broken on several levels. The advisor/advisee relationship and the whole idea of PhDs is a medieval
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Spoil Federal Auction = 2 years in Federal Prison(desmogblog.com)
13 points by littleidea 15y ago|0 comments
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by littleidea 15y ago
tl;dr "We have a system for evaluating devs, and pay people more for living in NY." The article has a bunch of words, but doesn't actually say anything about how much you should pay developers. Not sure why there are upvotes.
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by littleidea 15y ago
Summary question for the author: http://bit.ly/aorWMz
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Scientists Achieve Optical Invisibility(sciencedaily.com)
65 points by littleidea 15y ago|9 comments

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