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Feedback is where cause meets effect(knowyourcompany.com)
1 points by smidwap 12y ago|0 comments
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by smidwap 12y ago
I used to work with the Lesson.ly team. New and existing employee training is a big problem space with lots of room for innovation. Many employers want to do a better job of training their employees, but most don't have a systematic wa
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The TodoMVC Project on Rails 4(mattdeleon.net)
9 points by smidwap 13y ago|0 comments
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by smidwap 14y ago
1. Do not take this statement for granted: "When your page is simple, yes, you don't need that much interactivity. But the market will demand more and more functionality on that page." Simple, fast apps that don't overdose on interactivit
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by smidwap 15y ago
Couldn't agree more. The bonus reason sums it up best: "It's the right thing to do". This kind of stuff pays off in the long-rug I bet. A few times I have replied to emails from startups and the reply-to is their CEO. I get excited, send of
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by smidwap 15y ago
I think the implications are still unclear. It's hard to tell if they're specifically targeting apps that are "badge-arrific" and use Facebook to market themselves, if they're referring to canvas apps, or if this a wholesale attack on all a
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by smidwap 17y ago
Your thoughts parallel mine. At the very least, if this idea is so brilliant, why can't a company like Dell or Apple begin mass-producing these little tikes? Even with patents and all that legal mumbo-jumbo, I'm sure they could find somethi
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by smidwap 17y ago
My ignorance will show here, but I would imagine engineering one of those devices is nothing trivial (duh), let alone something that a small company could afford. I wasn't even aware that TechCrunch developed consumer products. Can someone
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by smidwap 17y ago
Can't wait to see Web 2.0 be the next regulated industry. Imagine the government trying to pull off a definition of that!
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by smidwap 17y ago
Bruno, we've got to talk. I go to IU and you seem like a particularly interesting individual. I'll shoot you an email soon.
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by smidwap 17y ago
Maybe if we were both more clear about the point we were trying to make, we would agree :) Fact of the matter is that age isn't a sole determining factor of one's entrepreneurial mindset, but it nevertheless plays a role, albeit small or si
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by smidwap 17y ago
Hard to see how it could be a good thing. The added desire te succeed, if any, will likely be short term.
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by smidwap 17y ago
Imagine the possibilities if we gathered all the troops (rejected troops that is) and brainstormed one sweet startup. Not realistic but how cool would that be?
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by smidwap 17y ago
Correction: you haven't beaten the 18/19/20/whatever year-old shits...yet. Give us a few years to be 24 :) Age does matter. People of different age have different priorities, bottom line. Our 52 year-old has children our age and is much les
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by smidwap 17y ago
I feel as if rejection here shouldn't really be a motivating factor! There should be so many reasons above proving YC wrong to be a motivated entrepreneur. But whatever gets you going I guess...
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by smidwap 17y ago
Same here. We have a team of 20-year olds an one 52 year-old. The grandpa of us bunch didn't see the same excitement in this opportunity as the young'uns did. Rejection here as well...would have been a heck of a summer in San Francisco, ins
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by smidwap 17y ago
You didn't get my April Fool's joke either? c'mon...
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by smidwap 17y ago
This is crazy haha! I'm not sure I see the sustainability in this but it is fun to see innovation like this out there. It's probably one of those things where new or better technology will be produced regardless of its applicability to FACE
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by smidwap 17y ago
I don't know if I'd want to pitch my idea to Google at such an early stage. They have enough resources to duplicate a lot of entrepreneurs' efforts. Seems like it is still best to start small, think big, and dream even bigger. Pitch the ide
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by smidwap 17y ago
Why does this guy get negative points? It's legitimate...
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by smidwap 17y ago
You are reading way too much into this blog post. I think much of the post's content can be treated somewhat humorously, e.g. he is using the Love, Hate, Love Again title as more of a metaphor than a description of his real feelings for PG.
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The mindset of an AIG Executive(businessweek.com)
3 points by smidwap 17y ago|2 comments
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by smidwap 17y ago
One point: Jake is clearly trying to portray himself as the self-made, hard-working, humble American. In my opinion, he would've been better off not publishing this article in the NY Times. From my point of view, it seems he is searching fo
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by smidwap 18y ago
1) Standard practice. Good for accounting purposes. 2) Unnecessarily complicated for end-user. Also messes with accounting because you don't want to record revenue earned for the second month in the first month. 3) Accounting nightmare! But
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Apple bringing out touchsreen netbook?(siliconrepublic.com)
1 points by smidwap 18y ago|0 comments
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by smidwap 18y ago
Wake me up the minute they announce dividend payouts, I'll buy the stock then :)
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by smidwap 18y ago
iPhone owners tend to be better off, at least in my experience, than the average web surfer. Not a big surprise here that they would spend more money. Still, Apple had to create this success, it wasn't thrown at them.
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by smidwap 18y ago
Wow PETA is going to be all over this one. But I'm pretty sure monkeys can't get HIV? It's unique to humans right?
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by smidwap 18y ago
Yeah like Zev said know something before you get there, but expect to rapidly learn new technology at your internship...that is the best way to impress and push forward in a job. I was hired a couple years ago to work on a company's employe
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by smidwap 18y ago
Just finished interviewing 5 programmers, all of them CS undergrads or grads, for my startup. (This might be a bit biased because CS majors were the ONLY ones we interviewed so far.) Two things occurred to me during the interview process: 1

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