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by rfairfax 14y ago
Yeah, and just like Eric Schmidt said, Twitter is just a poor man's email. http://www.dvice.com/archives/2009/03/google-sounds-s.php Boy, was he right. Not out of touch in the least.
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by rfairfax 15y ago
Startup data trends (which gets its data via AngelList's API) shows 18799 startups in total when you search on location "Earth" http://startupdatatrends.com/?tags=1643 It's reasonable to think that most of these startups created AngelList
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by rfairfax 15y ago
BTW, I do hope you continue to work on your blog and, more importantly, on your philosophy of getting stuff done.
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by rfairfax 15y ago
The irony is that Sahil's posts are increasingly about something other than leverage. They are becoming more about stating completely obvious startup/entrepreneur bait. "We love leverage", "pivoting is hard", "think small". We'd do better t
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by rfairfax 15y ago
Israel's rise as a tech hub has quite a few similarities to Silicon Valley's early history. Having good schools and a frontier spirit seem like key ingredients. Perhaps most important is the involvement of military spending in seeding resea
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Beware founders who read the Steve Jobs biography
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by rfairfax 15y ago
My point on the company being PM-driven was not that PM-driven on its own is necessarily bad. The point was that the organization responsible for ideas and their execution (in Netflix's case, product management) combined with a culture of f
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by rfairfax 15y ago
What's going on at Netflix? If you ask employees, they'll tell you that the culture - often praised for its high performance standards - is a culture of fear. It's a product management-driven organization where PMs aren't afraid to use the
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by rfairfax 15y ago
Do startups actually need product managers? A few months back, a job posting for a designer at inDinero included a sidebar that asked this question. Jessica suggested that the answer was "No". It seems that product managers are not required
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by rfairfax 15y ago
Why bother hacking AngelList? Isn't just as easy to email my pitch deck to people I know. Probably more effective too, since a reference from people I know is better than jumping in to a noisy group of startups, hoping someone will hear my