smakz

8 ms·

1.
by smakz 16y ago
What are you doing at work that you don't want people looking over your shoulder? Serious question by the way - it always comes up in work environments that some people are pretty against the lack of privacy that comes along with these type
2.
by smakz 16y ago
For some reason I was reminded of this blog post: http://jsomers.net/blog/it-turns-out
3.
by smakz 16y ago
You're right, I'm not arguing very well. And please, I encourage any one not to take what I say very seriously either. If you want to invest, think for yourself, that is what I was really trying to say.
4.
by smakz 16y ago
"The bottom line is this: Amazon trades at more than three times Apple's current valuation, eight times RIM's valuation and just about two and a half times Google's valuation. This is simply way too high." The article is almost laughable in
5.
by smakz 16y ago
I'm rooting for all the big technology companies to do really well: Amazon, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Ebay, Apple. Higher market caps means more flexibility in acquisitions, and these are the companies which aren't afraid to take risks.
6.
by smakz 16y ago
Of course you are right, but the point remains, it is important to understand the percentage of equity that you own/will own and how that will change with future dilution.
7.
by smakz 16y ago
Remember kids, when interviewing at private companies which offer stock rewards, always get firm answers about percentage owned and dilution. Getting 1,000,000 Facebook shares might sound good on an offer letter but without knowing the perc
8.
by smakz 16y ago
I've also heard rumors that Gmail and Adsense for Content aren't particularly profitable for Google. Of course I've also heard that the brand equity created with Gmail is very valuable and those two are extreme examples, but even based on s
9.
by smakz 16y ago
The flip side of course is that it becomes dangerous if you rely on any of Google's free services. An extreme example, but what happens if GMail isn't profitable enough? Maybe Adsense for content isn't pulling it's weight any more (if it ev
10.
by smakz 16y ago
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt Completely agree, the name dropping around here can get tiresome quick. There was a great article on Mint vs. Wesabe posted here re
11.
by smakz 16y ago
Honestly this seems like a cash grab from the federal government more then anything. Knowing friends who worked at these companies, they never felt the anti competitive pressure, and several moved between the companies several times. Most l
12.
by smakz 16y ago
Very true - the complexity of the system also comes into the equation when things go wrong and it takes real people to figure out why an outage is happening. Highly complex systems imply longer debugging time, and at a certain point a theor
13.
by smakz 16y ago
A Witty Phrase Proves Nothing - Voltaire The point of the quote (to me at least) was to be taken more to inspire you to rethink perfection then to be taken literally at face value.
14.
by smakz 16y ago
Very good points. Reminds me of this quote: Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery It does seem to be a major problem with a lot of Google's lat
15.
by smakz 16y ago
It sounds to me like you are quoting verbatim something Chris Anderson might say. Software companies in the valley have gotten along just fine charging for services and software with only giving users a token free trial. Microsoft and Oracl
16.
by smakz 16y ago
I don't like articles like this for one reason and one reason only: it's not empirical. It's a long list of vacuous do this do that statements. What I look for when reading articles about start ups is "At start up X we did Y and it caused Z
17.
by smakz 16y ago
Very interesting essay. Internet addiction is in my opinion spreading like wildfire, spreading well beyond procrastination as Paul Graham said and actually impacting workspace and home environments extremely negatively - the analogy to alco
18.
by smakz 16y ago
Lots of entrepreneurial navel gazing going on both in the linked site and in these comments. Everybody has their own theory about the reasons x y z why company a b c is successful, be it Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. The problem is every
19.
by smakz 16y ago
It's interesting how these guys got so much traction in so little time, even when in private beta: http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?&w=400&h=220&o=f&... ; While the future of flattr is still TDB - I wonder what the problem with t
20.
by smakz 16y ago
Ideally you should of had 10 customers lined up before you even started building anything. Draw upon friends and family -- you'll need close relationships with your few first customers to know where you went wrong and get continuous feedbac
21.
by smakz 16y ago
Setting aside fool.com's slide into arbitrary pop-wall street drivel on the level of Jim Cramer, my main concern about investing in Tesla at this point is the competition. Nissan is going to have it's Leaf all electric vehicle out very soon
22.
by smakz 16y ago
On the other hand, they already have 400 million users, which is about 20% of the entire internet population in the whole world[1]. Part of me is thinking what exactly are they waiting for? Something tells me even if they were at 100% inter
23.
by smakz 16y ago
I would say no. The strongest analogy between Tesla and a recent IPO I see is Clearwire - similar circumstances, large capital intensive business with some hype behind the technology but no real revenues to back it up. Getting into an IPO o
24.
by smakz 16y ago
It's amazing how many of the automated trading programs think exactly the same.
25.
by smakz 16y ago
If you ever tried to actually read on an iPad you would understand why. The glossy screen means you can't read in natural light, and the backlit screen causes eye strain. For long stretches of reading, iPad can't replace books the same way
26.
by smakz 16y ago
I've only got one question for apple: What's next?
27.
by smakz 16y ago
It seems to me that Buffett's reaction to Goldman Sachs is a little more emotional and a lot less objective then his other investments. While I agree that the specific charges against Sachs should be proven first, it's hard to deny the ques
28.
Nook Surpasses Kindle in March Sales(wirelessweek.com)
1 points by smakz 16y ago|0 comments
29.
by smakz 16y ago
In some sense I think he might have a point. I think the iPhone is a lot like the Wii console. Touch screens on phones are somewhat like WiiMotes, it's a novel approach but I do think it's questionable whether touch screen technology has st
30.
by smakz 16y ago
It's tempting to play armchair investor and criticize YC's choices, but they've been doing this for a few years now and if at first you don't understand the choices, dig deeper. For me, it seems at first glance to be a good mix. A few prett

More ›