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by youssifa 10y ago
It really depends on the perspective you bring and what you're comparing it to. If the equivalent alternative to working at Google on AdSense sales is working as a consultant at McKinsey or at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker, the
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by youssifa 10y ago
I was thinking the same thing. It'd be interesting to compare this analysis with a duplicate analysis exclusively of accepted applications.
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by youssifa 11y ago
Agreed. Anyone who says there is an East/West divide in Michigan... never actually lived in Michigan.
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by youssifa 11y ago
Have you been to the eastern part of Michigan? The Detroit suburbs like Birmingham, West Bloomfield, Bloomfield Hills, etc. are absurdly affluent. Not to mention that places like Ann Arbor, and even Royal Oak and Dearborn Heights are doing
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by youssifa 12y ago
The entrepreneurs who are fine with it are likely, for the most part, the ones who actually get funded.
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by youssifa 12y ago
Not cool.
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by youssifa 12y ago
I didn't mean to make the point "that a business benefits off another's hard work does not nessecary deprive the worker of their income". Sorry, I guess it was lost in translation somehow. My point is that Google profits
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by youssifa 12y ago
May not necessarily be a popular opinion on here, but I'll state it anyway: Google may not directly profit from Google News, but they still manage to extract value from it. We exist in a top-heavy paradigm where giant servers profite
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by youssifa 12y ago
If you're a startup founder accepted into Detroit Tech Stars (or even a YC) who lives in a foreign country, there should be a policy in place to give you an accelerated visa to work / live in the US provided you base your startup
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by youssifa 12y ago
And yet, Google led the round.
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by youssifa 12y ago
For the same reasons that a healthcare startup is willing to take on arguably more risk and longer lead times to sales compared to any other industry -- there's so much human impact that can be made (and money at stake) that even a sma
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by youssifa 12y ago
This could be a good content marketing play as well for qualified lead gen outreach on other platforms -- offer clear value to developers in exchange for their e-mail addresses and accompanying data points about those developers.
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by youssifa 12y ago
It probably depends on what kind of a company you are trying to start. Groupthink or an approach that over-emphasizes engineering in place of value prop / understanding the market you are serving can hinder you, and that could be a c
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by youssifa 15y ago
Yes, this test is actually referenced throughout "Blink" -- Really interesting when you look at the results.
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by youssifa 15y ago
"Yet because ugliness is harder to define than race or sex, some argue that anti-discrimination laws are impossible to maintain." Anybody else find the premise to that statement a bit short-sighted? I just read an interesting book called "B