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By nice, I meant that the presentation was nice and clean. And I understood each individual piece of data but I am unsure if I was supposed to identify a trend amongst teams or not.

Very nice - although I'm not too sure what it's trying to communicate to me.

Btw, did you have to pay for your stats?

Forcing people to be in the office will not boost morale and productivity. There's probably a reason why personal and "side projects" are being done by her employees. Their work probably does not motivate them enough for them. And there's nothing wrong with dedicating some time for activities outside of the company - if it makes a happier employee, I'd say go for it.

Agree with the point that humans are fallible. We should always have back ups. A company with 1000s of paying customers should at least take steps to protect itself from this sort of catastrophe.

Startups have limited amount of funds to invest in their human resources so they will always be look for the best, the ones who take initiative, who goes all out to make something done right. I wouldn't give up hope just yet - start building something outside of what's formally required of you. Make an app, publish it, sell it and talk about it. You'll need to wear multiple hats in a startup so in addition to coding, if you can do the other stuff, you'll be a huge asset.

I definitely commend you for taking the effort :) If I had a company, I would love to have you on my side to help me point out my flaws.

Your manager needs a reality check to realize that while he's good at starting a company, he can't really manage it.

Agreed. I feel like it's more of an exercise to have some sort of vision but in reality, it's really difficult to predict what the environment will be like in 4 years.

Looking at what I have learnt just 2 years ago, some of it is already starting to get irrelevant!

I think you've outlined just how undervalued managerial skills actually are. I have seen many that have claimed that they can take up a manager's position yet can barely manage relationships with their friends.

I think that relationship skills are key to being a manager, in addition to all the other planning etc.

I'm not sure how approachable your manager is but it sounds like he needs help from you to bring moral up. A leader does not necessarily have to be a manager but of course, with everything, do at your own discretion.

Sure but they have their R&D arm and they easily have enough cash to acquire upcoming companies. Granted of course, they will need to be smart enough to spin money out of those things but they aren't in a dreadful position like Kodak was.

Beautiful! Thanks! I'm probably going to fork it at some time to add something. I've been dreaming about this for a while.

You would probably lose more than just a few banks if they didn't get some sort of money. The financial markets need confidence to survive as well.

The company is still afloat and still profitable - he's doing a much better job than quite a few CEOs out there.

Yes, they seem to express great shock when it's simply just capitalism at work.

Hi Pierre,

Would you be able to comment on how your process and decision on picking a speech engine company?

Thanks

I think it's absolutely great that they've donated all the proceeds to Wikipedia :) Congratulations. It's heartwarming to know that although there are some free loaders, you were still made a pretty penny.

On the other hand, how come all the design work, copy writing, etc are considered free? That's just masking the actual cost of the product.

Essentially, that's what happens when you take in outside investment. If you can build a cool product and bootstrap it, it need not be that way. Once you're taking in external shareholders, you're semi-bounded by their wishes.

It's possible that their analysts division is separate from the investments division. Anyone from investment banking care to comment?

In a sense, yes. D3 is at a lower level - basically taking any DOM element and mapping it to data. It doesn't have to be a chart or a graph. It could be a list of items or a table.

The library provided is more or less give some data and you get a chart.

As with most comments, I'd say very slick and straight to the point demo. The typing text did kinda annoyed me abit - it's probably a give or take as I don't have patience reading things - would prefer to let me jump in and play around with it.

Just curious, did you have to write all the graphing yourselves or did you use a library?

I'm interested to know how this compares to private/Ivy League schools. It seems to me that you would also have a price to pay in order to gain access to top education although certainly, in the Chinese case, it's more extreme since there are so many students vying for the same few spots at top universities that everyone is trying to gain some sort of edge.

Just wanted to say that I really love this editor. Really simple to quickly create diagrams. Great job!

Great great job! I love the demo and love the clean interface compared with Trello. I think eventually you'll reach a point where you need to decide if this is still a side project or there's some potential there. Leaving it free for now is perfectly fine but eventually as more and more people use it, it might cost you a whole lot more (in which case, it might be a good thing). Good luck!

I think that's a very interesting thought. I deleted my Facebook account after I felt that it sucked up too much of my time just browsing status updates. Before, every so often, I would check Facebook to see if anything new had been posted. It got to the point where I had enough and now I feel less anxious about constantly going on the Internet. Information was overloaded for me.

It's at a brilliant price point and I think that's why the sales are doing pretty well. I wonder if the Nexus 7 is also sold under cost similar to the Kindle Fire?

This is really cool for sure. I can see how it's useful for teaching JavaScript concepts or doing analysis on code. Good job!

Very nice. I did something similar as well a couple of weeks ago but didn't publish it. Good job!

I'd say that most of the value from an MBA program is through your peers rather than from books. To complement the reading, I would recommend reaching out to other entrepreneurs.

Ah sorry. My bad! I meant if Facebook has any plans to avoid using the popup window?

Seems like it doesn't work for me on Ubuntu Google Chrome. I get 3 JS errors trying to run the tutorial. Does anyone else have the same problem?