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Re:Mark Zuckerberg sells 30.2 million shares of $FB common stock at $3... on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @01:22PM (#4014111)
I'm a massive proponent of the Distributed Social Networking Protocol concept, but since Diaspora tanked no one else seems to be picking up the mantle and Google/Yahoo/Microsoft don't look like they're going to roll out anything resembling an open SN protocol any time soon I wonder if it will ever happen.
Re:How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @10:58AM (#2607531)
No, unsolicited email is never legal, CAN-SPAM only allows you to send email to people you have a prior business relationship with e.g. they signed up for your service/mailing list. Someone who posted a property to Craigslist hardly fits the profile.
Re:First Analysis of Nokia-Microsoft Alliance - Wow this is good for M... on Friday February 11, 2011 @08:34AM (#2206267)
"The N97 coulda been an iPhone killer and the N8 and E7 all exhibited potential they might have been big... if Nokia ever really put their mind to it, they coulda crushed the iPhone"

I'll have two of whatever this guy is having.

Nokia doesn't just have a problem with execution it's not just about a features check list of touchscreen, appstore, music and gaming.It's about the attention to detail and ruthless application of quality in hardware build, software and UI. Nokia never even came close.

Re:Groupon: Is Google Making a $6 Billion Mistake? on Thursday December 02, 2010 @01:26PM (#1963090)
IIRC Google now values YouTube at ~5Bn, and at that price I feel that there are plenty of companies who would bite Google's hand off.
Re:The middle class is over. It's not coming back. on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @10:16AM (#1783431)
Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day?

Horseshit, I make a very comfortable, middle class living at an online/mobile travel commerce start-up that does booking transactions in much the same way that a travel agent used to. The travel agent job disappeared, but Expedia, Tarvelocity and Orbitz -to name just the big, public facing brands of this transition- employ tens of thousands of middle class people.

Re:How Our Startup Got Featured on CNN on Monday October 11, 2010 @11:36AM (#1780011)
A $10 gift card for 10 mins of phone feedback is probably the best investment of time/money that I have ever heard of, I will be shamelessly stealing this idea for years.
Re:Hipmunk Closes Hyper-Competitive Angel Round, Sans The Usual Suspects on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @06:45PM (#1761881)
Affiliate booking revenue
Re:Hipmunk Closes Hyper-Competitive Angel Round, Sans The Usual Suspects on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @01:29PM (#1760577)
The team are proven entrepreneurs, but it's not like other travel start-ups like Kayak and Tripit where the founders all have proven domain expertise, Steve and Adam are hardly travel industry veterans.
Re:Ask HN: Do startups need analysts? What can this 26-year-old semi-g... on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @08:59AM (#1759471)
I once had a short conversation with Max Levchin (of PayPal fame) and the one thing he said that stuck in my mind -besides all the drivel about how Slide was going to change the world- was that 10% of a start-up's workforce should be metrics people, obsessed with measuring the company performance i.e. if you have a ten person start-up, at least one should should be an analyst, otherwise he said, the company is essentially flying blind.

From my own experience, if you can not only master the technical side of working with metrics, but be the kind of guy who can actually ask intelligent, relevant questions and structure them in a way that gets meaningful answers from raw data, then you are worth your weight in gold to any start-up.

Re:Study Finds That Apple Dominates Tech News on Monday September 27, 2010 @05:59AM (#1731168)
In other news, researchers also announced that 100% of America's imports come from other countries.
Re:What’s Hiding in Demand Media’s Finances? on Sunday September 12, 2010 @07:08AM (#1683446)
gaming the Digg FP for traffic ala Cracked.com is now (for better or worse) basically over, I'm sure Cracked is seeing a massive loss of traffic.
Re:Free of Freemium, Things Are Starting To Look Up At Ning on Monday August 23, 2010 @12:30PM (#1627190)
If I remember correctly, Ning raised their last round at a ~$400M valuation. As a freemium Facebook competitor with Pmarca involved, you can sort of understand, but no one is going to pay >400M for a B2B social network maker.
Re:How to fire your boss on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @06:25PM (#1593139)
Fake

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100810/meet-the-prankster-...

Re:Ask HN: Did you ever do anything unethical to get your startup off ... on Monday August 09, 2010 @05:09PM (#1589406)
I wouldn't consider most of the actions listed "unethical" per-se, some actions like; "creating a ton of pages with keywords to get long tail google traffic" are legitimate, while "buying an email list to spam people" can be downright illegal.
Re:Keep calm & carry on: What you didn't know about the reddit story on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @03:52PM (#1572512)
He is the sunshine on my shoulders
Re:Old Spice on Twitter on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @05:02PM (#1512733)
completely seconded

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