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by stephenhess 5y ago
That's true.. though you could also look at it the other way which is that they didn't capitalize effectively enough to stay competitive with Asana. The niche is not always a safe place to hang out.
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by stephenhess 6y ago
As much as I love not having to see Trump on Twitter now.. the future of social media is going to be fully decentralized and distributed (whether we like it or not). The Free World will need a much better immune response to this kind of rad
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by stephenhess 6y ago
CEO is the primary but everyone in a startup needs to take responsibility for this. The core goal of a startup is to discover a "scalable and repeatable" business model. https://steveblank.com/2010/01/25&
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by stephenhess 7y ago
Bye!
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Why is tech salary growth so much slower than market growth?
2 points by stephenhess 8y ago|1 comments
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by stephenhess 8y ago
Love this. I'm as harsh of a critic of organized religion as you'll find but I think secular culture has a lot to learn in terms of how religious rituals and habits can foster human excellence, joy. And finding a way of reformulat
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by stephenhess 9y ago
With you until that last part.. older populations that go through diabetes prevention / weight loss programs actually do better than younger folks. Also, "if they actually care enough to do so" is a tricky statement. Many fol
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by stephenhess 9y ago
Also, non-insulin dependent which lowers the risk considerably
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by stephenhess 9y ago
We've known that low-calorie dieting has this effect for some time; unless I'm missing something, this looks like solid confirmation of this point but isn't adding much knew to our understanding of diabetes prevention. The bi
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by stephenhess 10y ago
Or.. its just a reflection of the market they're in. Understanding how much innovation opportunity is left in a market/category is a huge part of identifying whether you should continue to invest there or elsewhere.
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by stephenhess 10y ago
Love this but they're really not holding one of these in the Bay Area? -_-
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Little Weight Lies(medium.com)
2 points by stephenhess 11y ago|0 comments
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by stephenhess 11y ago
With the rise of scientific thinking, we're seeing a rapid increase in the number of folks who identify as agnostic or athiest [1]. This is natural given that the tenets of most major religions can't be tested or validated via exp
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by stephenhess 11y ago
Related? http://www.alchemyapi.com/
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by stephenhess 11y ago
One aspect that I haven't seen mentioned here is that these ads are also designed to improve patient adherence. So you have 30 million prescriptions of zoloft prescribed in the US every year (crazy right?) but there's a lot of mon
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by stephenhess 11y ago
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Ask HN: Self-destructing email?
1 points by stephenhess 11y ago|1 comments
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by stephenhess 11y ago
Is there a professional VST version of this? Or something similar? Sounds beautiful and love that it isn't sample based.
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by stephenhess 11y ago
Great comment! The data shows a quickly growing social network and ad business (despite a lot of the naysaying in these comments). From my personal observations, younger folks are spending a lot more time on Instagram and Snapchat, and a lo
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by stephenhess 11y ago
There's a difference between generating business value and generating profit. It's common for founders to get liquidity during financing events and this typically involves a sale of equity (i.e. transfer of business value from the
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by stephenhess 11y ago
One of the aspects of Elon's work that I think is brilliant is his ability to craft business strategies that are achievable given his current resources and then build on top of his success. The zip2 -> x.com -> paypal -> space
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by stephenhess 11y ago
Having taken quite a few cabs in DF (lived in Roma for a couple months), the uber-bashing in this thread is perplexing. Cab drivers in DF routinely don't follow rules - they often share the same license amongst multiple people, they&#x
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by stephenhess 12y ago
Product designer @ Stride Health here. We actually work closely with TaskRabbit to help Taskers signup for coverage. Single payer would be pretty awesome but the next best thing is a high functioning individual market and companies that enc
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by stephenhess 12y ago
Here's my short list: Peter Norvig, Yann Lecun, Andrew Ng, Demis Hassabis, Michael I. Jordan, Ben Medlock, Jeff Dean, Jeff Hawkin, Steve Gould, Geoffery Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Simon Osindero and Fei-Fei Li
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by stephenhess 12y ago
I think there's probably something here related to timing. You want to be early enough that most people think what you're tackling isn't feasible (and therefore low competition) but not so early that it's impossible to c
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by stephenhess 12y ago
If you're looking for a better place to go than healthcare.gov, give us a try at stridehealth.com. Bunch of ex-privacy folks and healthcare folks - can shop from your phone. Pretty shocking to see such a novice mistake by an org I thin
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by stephenhess 12y ago
I really like this. Simple mechanic and has that intimate feel that you get from snapchat but with people nearby. They clearly need some love from a real designer tho.. that logo / loading thing looks like something you'd stomp to
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by stephenhess 12y ago
Interesting. Makes sense why a lot of synths come pre-programmed with a "Popcorn" patch.
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by stephenhess 12y ago
Zocalo is also a large, historical square in Mexico City. That reference makes a bit more sense to me.
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by stephenhess 12y ago
Surprised to see so little startup activity in the Seattle area. Is there a reason for this? - in spite of what I expect to be a pretty serious pool of a talent drawn in by Amazon and Microsoft.

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