id
int64 2
42.1M
| by
large_stringlengths 2
15
⌀ | time
timestamp[us] | title
large_stringlengths 0
198
⌀ | text
large_stringlengths 0
27.4k
⌀ | url
large_stringlengths 0
6.6k
⌀ | score
int64 -1
6.02k
⌀ | descendants
int64 -1
7.29k
⌀ | kids
large list | deleted
large list | dead
bool 1
class | scraping_error
large_stringclasses 25
values | scraped_title
large_stringlengths 1
59.3k
⌀ | scraped_published_at
large_stringlengths 4
66
⌀ | scraped_byline
large_stringlengths 1
757
⌀ | scraped_body
large_stringlengths 1
50k
⌀ | scraped_at
timestamp[us] | scraped_language
large_stringclasses 58
values | split
large_stringclasses 1
value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
22,386 | Sam_Odio | 2007-05-16T00:08:43 | Is 30 too old to start a company? | null | http://valleywag.com/tech/the-question/is-30-too-old-to-start-a-company-260742.php | 5 | 11 | [
22532,
22523,
22553,
22687,
22515
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,388 | amichail | 2007-05-16T00:12:07 | Would you broadcast your OS process list live? Would you like to see other people's process lists? | null | 1 | 7 | [
22390,
22389,
22391,
22471,
22393
] | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
|
22,397 | Mistone | 2007-05-16T00:47:28 | Union Square Ventures Job Board | null | http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/05/union_square_ve.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,403 | brett | 2007-05-16T01:44:08 | Real world Rails: Caching in Rails | null | http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-rails1/index.html?ca=drs- | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,408 | amichail | 2007-05-16T02:10:09 | A service to keep track of your contributions to social sites -- thus giving you something like a blog of your contributions | null | 1 | 3 | [
22409
] | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
|
22,417 | brlewis | 2007-05-16T02:58:58 | YC reject ourdoings.com navigation overhaul -- big improvement? | null | 4 | 15 | [
22451,
22722,
22437,
22530,
22420,
22419,
22531
] | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
|
22,430 | sbraford | 2007-05-16T04:27:22 | List of Web 2.0 Acquisition Prices | null | http://www.tnl.net/blog/2006/10/09/no-bubble-20-yet/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,432 | sbraford | 2007-05-16T04:30:58 | Chart: Percentage of a Company You Own vs. Acquisition Price | null | http://onwebapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/cashout_chart.png | 5 | 4 | [
22498,
22626
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,439 | sbraford | 2007-05-16T04:47:46 | NBC Jumps on the MySpace Bandwagon | null | http://mashable.com/2007/05/15/mynbc/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,440 | sbraford | 2007-05-16T04:48:45 | 19 Instant Messaging Startups (that Kevin Rose is facing off against) | null | http://mashable.com/2007/05/15/look-out-kevin-rose-19-im-startups-you-need-to-beat/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,461 | ereldon | 2007-05-16T06:35:46 | BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft's Vista sales power up | null | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6660367.stm | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'toString') | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T20:58:37 | null | train |
22,465 | staunch | 2007-05-16T06:51:40 | Where is Silicon Valley? - A Rare Useful Post From Valleywag | null | http://www.valleywag.com/tech/dumb-questions/where-is-silicon-valley-260714.php | 1 | 1 | [
22556
] | null | null | fetch failed | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-07T19:22:17 | null | train |
22,466 | reitzensteinm | 2007-05-16T07:10:15 | Wordpress to Celebrate 1 millionth blog | null | http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/117061874/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,473 | phil | 2007-05-16T08:08:58 | Guitar craftsman: "You don't get there by secrets" | null | http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/05/14/070514fa_fact_bilger | 1 | 1 | [
22474
] | null | null | no_error | Struts and Frets | 2007-05-06T20:00:00.000-04:00 | Burkhard Bilger | The Finn was an inspiration. My son, I’ll admit, was showing signs of waning interest, but the bass project forged ahead. I bought thick boards of African black limba—“the holy grail of tone woods,” according to one builder. I ordered Dark Star pickups, handmade to replicate a Swedish design used by the Grateful Dead. I found the original patent drawings for the Gibson bass, and a bassist in Louisiana who could wire the controls with vintage-correct components. For the nut, I did Ruokangas one better. I located a man in southern Alaska with a cache of fossilized walrus ivory, five thousand years old. When I had a chunk shipped to Ken’s house, he sent me a digital picture of it—blackened with age like the tip of a charred spear. He was getting a little worried, he wrote.I told Parker about the walrus ivory the first time I visited him. He gave me a look of mild pity, like a doctor who’d seen these symptoms before, then disappeared into the back of his workshop. When he returned, he was holding a large grayish bone. He’d done some nut experiments of his own, he said, in the early nineteen-eighties. “I thought, O.K., I’ll make one out of every conceivable material, then see if I can tell the difference. I tried wood, brass, nickel silver, elephant ivory—everything.” The bone in his hand was an ostrich femur, from a bird raised by a friend in California. “He thought it would make superior nut material, so I cut it up and made a couple of parts out of it,” he said. “And, you know, it’s just a bone. It barely makes a difference.” He handed it to me. “Changing this is like a girl thinking that if she changes her nail polish she’ll be beautiful.”It was late morning, and a pale winter sun had risen outside. The light came slanting through the workshop’s high windows, kindling the sawdust in the air. Parker had populated the shop with his preoccupations: wood bins and tool cabinets, tube amplifiers and bass scrolls, a tandem bicycle and a wooden rowing shell suspended from the rafters. Along the walls, a battalion of cast-iron machines—band saw, table saw, drill press, lathe—stood with clamps and blades at the ready.One of Parker’s first jobs was in a grandfather-clock factory in Rochester, and he’s never lost his love for arcane machinery. He mills most of his own metal parts, and is always inventing devices to speed construction. (“His shop is like Disneyland for me,” his friend Linda Manzer, who makes guitars for Pat Metheny, told me when she visited one day.) Most luthiers wax almost mystical about wood and the hand-built qualities of their instruments. Parker compares his to speedboats and race cars—engineering challenges as much as artistic ones. “I’m a toolmaker,” he says. “I make tools for musicians.”The task that morning was to carve the top of a new guitar. Parker began with a thick board of Adirondack spruce—flat on the bottom and peaked down the middle like a roof—and placed it in what he called his “duplicating machine.” This consisted of an electric carver and a dummy stylus, running along the same steel beam. The carver moved back and forth over the spruce, while the stylus ran over an arched mold that Parker had made. As the stylus rose up and down the mold, the carver moved with it. Strip by strip, the board began to assume the shape of a gentle arch. “It’s like mowing a lawn!” Parker shouted, over the low roar of the machinery.A guitar isn’t an especially hard instrument to build—“Try a harpsichord,” Parker said—but it leaves little room for error. The mechanism is simple: six strings, stretched taut across an open chamber, vibrate when struck. This sets the top moving, amplifying the vibrations, turning the guitar into a pump that pushes sound waves out through the sound hole. The strings alone make almost no sound, so everything depends on the wood’s resonance. There’s no bow to keep the notes from dying, no mouthpiece or bellows to sustain them. The player makes the smallest of gestures—“You whack the string and that’s it,” Parker said—and hopes the guitar will turn them into music.To resonate well, the wood has to be thin. To withstand the strings’ tension, it has to be strong. Things don’t always work out. Even if the neck doesn’t bend, the bridge doesn’t pop off, the strings don’t buzz, the guitar may respond poorly to playing. Its wood may vibrate well only at certain frequencies, so some strings sound weaker than others. It may have dead spots or “wolf tones” that sound muffled or unpleasant. In some guitars, the neck and body, top and bottom, produce sound waves that are out of phase: their peaks and troughs flatten one another when they collide. In others, the sound builds up, wave on wave. “A good guitar is in agreement with itself,” Parker said.How best to achieve that isn’t clear. A cello is a cello, a sousaphone is a sousaphone, but the guitar has yet to find its platonic form. In the three centuries since Antonio Stradivari and Giu-seppe Guarneri perfected the violin, the guitar has morphed from a thin-hipped little figure to a plump matron, trading double strings for single strings, in sets of four, five, six, or more. Tricked out in tortoiseshell or mother-of-pearl, it has been good enough for aristocrats and warbling ladies, strumming coyly between verses. When cheaply made, it has been an instrument of the people. “The guitar is no more than a cowbell,” the Spanish Inquisitor Don Sebastián de Covarrubias Orozco complained in 1611, “so easy to play . . . that there is not a stable lad who is not a musician.” That much hasn’t changed.Classical guitars with gut strings finally found their Stradivari in the mid-nineteenth century, in the Spanish luthier Antonio de Torres Jurado, whose designs are still used. But steel strings demanded a stouter structure. Sometime in the eighteen-seventies, a shoe-store clerk in Kalamazoo named Orville Gibson began to wonder why guitars weren’t made more like violins. A violin’s arched top is inherently stronger than a guitar’s flat top. It needs less bracing, so it can vibrate more freely and give a stronger, more focussed tone. Gibson made his first archtop guitars in his spare time, then quit his job and hired staff as orders increased. In the nineteen-twenties, a brilliant luthier named Lloyd Loar refined Gibson’s designs, adding f-holes and other violinlike touches. By the thirties, archtops were the most popular guitars in the country. They were larger and louder than flattops, yet more articulate—perfect for fleet-fingered jazz solos that could cut through a blare of horns. They gave chords a ringing punch and bass runs a penetrating snap: Maybelle Carter played an archtop on early country tunes like “Wildwood Flower.”To a luthier in the thirties, archtops must have seemed like the capstone of guitar development. Then magnetic pickups came along and the instruments changed again. An amplified guitar can’t be too resonant or it will squeal with feedback. Fender solved this problem by giving electric guitars solid bodies; Martin kept most of its flattops purely acoustic; Gibson’s archtops fell somewhere in between. Some were made with dull, laminated tops; others had holes cut in them for pickups, or solid blocks of maple running down the center to dampen the sound. “If you had a Martin, a good one, and then picked up a Gibson Super 400, you wouldn’t have the slightest idea why anyone would play that,” Parker says. “It’s gigantic, but it doesn’t sound gigantic. Where is the fun in that?” Parker’s new guitar was partly an attempt to reclaim that history—to see what archtops might have become if the electric guitar had never been invented. “They sort of became dinosaurs,” he says. “They were labelled as the least versatile of all guitars. But in my opinion an archtop properly built is a chameleon. It can do anything.”When Parker had finished with the duplicating machine, the spruce board was a rough arch about a quarter inch thick. He grabbed it with both hands—his fingers were a good knuckle longer than mine—and flexed it like a pizza pan. Guitar tops are made from soft woods, like spruce and cedar, that vibrate easily; their backs and sides are made from hardwoods, like rosewood and maple, that are good at reflecting sound. Parker held the board up to his ear and tapped it with his forefinger. It gave a dull ring. “Hear that?” he said. “It’s a minor second.” He hummed the two notes of the interval below his breath. Then he picked up a hand plane and went to work, shaving thin curls from the inner surface. “You want it to get excited about playing every note,” he said. “At a quarter inch, it won’t get excited about playing one.”Over the next two weeks, Parker would plane off another eighth of an inch or more, till the top rang at the faintest touch. It was a perilous process. The thinner the wood, the fuller the sound—Parker’s tops are less than half as thick as some luthiers’—but a shaving too many could destroy the top or suddenly dampen it. “The real question is, when do you stop?” he said. Stradivari seems to have carved his violins so the tops and bottoms rang with the same note when tapped—an F below middle C. But Parker had given up on easy prescriptions. “Everyone has a secret recipe,” he said. “Everyone is trying to do scratch-for-scratch reproductions of ancient instruments. If you had any guts, you’d make a nice new instrument and let the world beat it up for three hundred years.” He lifted the board again, flexed, and tapped. “You don’t get there by secrets,” he said. “You get there by doing everything better.”Parker came of age in the nineteen-seventies, when guitars were sorely in need of a little idealism. He grew up in Islip, on the South Shore of Long Island, the eldest son of a Methodist minister notably more progressive than his congregation. The Parkers joined the March on Washington, in 1963, and received death threats for taking on a black student pastor. “On the spectrum from Bible thumper to social helper, my father is way on the social-helper side,” Parker told me. “No thumping at all.” His mother had a master’s in religion and education from Columbia and was, if anything, more of an activist. Until she died, two years ago, she had a gold Plymouth plastered with bumper stickers—“My Job Is to Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable”—that Parker now drives. He took me to lunch in it one day. “I wonder if President Bush misses the letters he used to get from Grace K. Parker, Methodist Woman,” he said.After graduating from high school, in 1970, Parker spent the better part of a year at Goddard, an alternative college in northern Vermont. He took a class in furniture-building and made a fretless bass for his brother Alan. But the school’s long-haired heyday had passed (“It was after the nude class picture”), and Parker found better furniture-makers elsewhere. Rochester, then as now, was a city full of musicians and craftsmen—the Eastman School of Music and the Rochester Institute of Technology were there. Parker worked at the grandfather-clock factory for two years, then tried his hand at making five-string banjos and kinetic furniture. He took some group guitar lessons, but was never more than a serviceable player, with a strong but sloppy touch. Still, his teacher’s guitar entranced him. It was a Gibson archtop from the nineteen-forties.For a while after that, Parker did nothing but build archtops. He moved back to Long Island and shared a workshop with a lutemaker named Robert Meadow. When he’d finished his first guitar, he brought it by Matt Umanov’s store, in Greenwich Village. Umanov told him that it looked like something a hippie had made. So Parker showed it to Jimmy D’Aquisto, the last of the great archtop builders. D’Aquisto lived in a neighboring town on Long Island. A high-school dropout from Brooklyn with the dashing looks of a young Dion, he had apprenticed under John D’Angelico, the other giant of postwar archtop design. (Both men died young, at the age of fifty-nine, D’Angelico of heart failure, in 1964; D’Aquisto of an epileptic seizure, in 1995.) When Parker showed up at his shop, D’Aquisto was used to visits from acolytes. He told Parker that he didn’t need an apprentice. Then he told him that his archtop was the best first guitar he’d ever heard. “You’re crazy if you stop building,” he said.Parker was twenty-four. He felt as if he’d been knighted, he told me, but he had no clients, no college degree, no market for the archtops he wanted to build. “I couldn’t get arrested,” he said. What he could do was fix other people’s instruments.In 1979, Parker took a job as a guitar repairman at Stuyvesant Music, on West Forty-eighth Street in Manhattan. The shop was a crossroads for astonishing players of every style—Robert Fripp, Andy Summers, John McLaughlin, Joe Pass—and their guitars needed help. Fender and Gibson had been sold to cost-cutting conglomerates; many of Martin’s best builders had died or retired; and standards had fallen across the industry. (The ladies in cat’s-eye glasses hadn’t done such bad work, after all.) Players would come in with brand-new guitars that were almost unplayable: necks bent, frets uneven, intonation awry. “The Seventies were the Dark Ages,” Parker says. “I don’t know of any analogue in American manufacturing where quality went so low and people still consumed the product.”The lapse left an opening for a generation of gifted luthiers who were convinced they could do better. Bill Collings in Austin, Jean Larrivée in British Columbia, and others began to dissect old instruments and build new ones by hand, modelling their work on prewar Martins or classical guitars. Parker had other ideas. After four years at Stuyvesant, he quit and moved into his grandfather’s house in Seymour, Connecticut. He had few expenses there, a well-equipped workshop, and a steady flow of design and repair jobs. So, for the next eight years, he quietly played guitar scientist. “That was my Bell Labs,” he says. | 2024-11-08T06:48:45 | en | train |
22,476 | mattjaynes | 2007-05-16T08:57:04 | SmugMug: Investing in a speedy site pays off for users | null | http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/05/15/speed-matters/ | 13 | 1 | [
22573
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,485 | rustartup | 2007-05-16T10:21:53 | Funny toy for startup founders :) | null | http://andrewwooldridge.com/myapps/webtwopointoh.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,488 | mattculbreth | 2007-05-16T10:59:27 | Switching to Mac to be an Indie Developer | null | http://www.scribd.com/doc/61875/Switching-to-the-Mac-to-be-an-Indie-Developer | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,494 | sajid | 2007-05-16T11:28:04 | Fendoo: Social Bookmarking for Smart People | null | http://fendoo.com/index.php | 1 | 1 | [
22507,
22495
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,506 | brlewis | 2007-05-16T12:30:56 | How response times affect users (Jakob Nielsen) | null | http://www.useit.com/papers/responsetime.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Response Times: The 3 Important Limits | 1993-01-01T21:53:54+0000 | Jakob Nielsen |
Summary:
There are 3 main time limits (which are determined by human perceptual abilities) to keep in mind when optimizing web and application performance.
Excerpt from Chapter 5 in my book Usability Engineering, from 1993:
The basic advice regarding response times has been about the same for thirty years [Miller 1968; Card et al. 1991]:
0.1 second is about the limit for having the user feel that the system is reacting instantaneously, meaning that no special feedback is necessary except to display the result.
1.0 second is about the limit for the user's flow of thought to stay uninterrupted, even though the user will notice the delay. Normally, no special feedback is necessary during delays of more than 0.1 but less than 1.0 second, but the user does lose the feeling of operating directly on the data.
10 seconds is about the limit for keeping the user's attention focused on the dialogue. For longer delays, users will want to perform other tasks while waiting for the computer to finish, so they should be given feedback indicating when the computer expects to be done. Feedback during the delay is especially important if the response time is likely to be highly variable, since users will then not know what to expect.
Normally, response times should be as fast as possible, but it is also possible for the computer to react so fast that the user cannot keep up with the feedback. For example, a scrolling list may move so fast that the user cannot stop it in time for the desired element to remain within the available window. The fact that computers can be too fast indicates the need for user-interface changes, like animations, to be timed according to a real-time clock rather than being timed as an indirect effect of the computer's execution speed: Even if a faster model computer is substituted, the user interface should stay usable.
In cases where the computer cannot provide fairly immediate response, continuous feedback should be provided to the user in form of a percent-done indicator [Myers 1985]. As a rule of thumb, percent-done progress indicators should be used for operations taking more than about 10 seconds. Progress indicators have three main advantages: They reassure the user that the system has not crashed but is working on his or her problem; they indicate approximately how long the user can be expected to wait, thus allowing the user to do other activities during long waits; and they finally provide something for the user to look at, thus making the wait less painful. This latter advantage should not be underestimated and is one reason for recommending a graphic progress bar instead of just stating the expected remaining time in numbers.
For operations where it is unknown in advance how much work has to be done, it may not be possible to use a percent-done indicator, but it is still possible to provide running progress feedback in terms of the absolute amount of work done. For example, a system searching an unknown number of remote databases could print the name of each database as it is processed. If this is not possible either, a last resort would be to use a less specific progress indicator in the form of a spinning ball, a busy bee flying over the screen, dots printed on a status line, or any such mechanism that at least indicates that the system is working, even if it does not indicate what it is doing. Note added for the web version of this essay: Most web browsers fail in providing useful progress bars, since they don't communicate what percentage of the entire download for a page has been completed.
For reasonably fast operations, taking between 2 and 10 seconds, a true percent-done indicator may be overkill and, in fact, putting one up would violate the principle of display inertia (flashing changes on the screen so rapidly that the user cannot keep pace or feels stressed). One could still give less conspicuous progress feedback. A common solution is to combine a "busy" cursor with a rapidly changing number in small field in the bottom of the screen to indicate how much has been done.
See Also:
Article about website response times and how to improve them.
Web-Based Application Response Time
Update added 2014: I keep getting questions like this, so I decided to answer it here.
Q: "You mention many times that response time is important, and there are tons of tools to measure response time, but what is an acceptable web based application's response time? What is a user's tolerance, not for a shopping experience, but for an interactive application?"
A: I wish we could eradicate the term "web-based application" because it distracts from the real issue, which is one of application UI design (we have several full-day courses on this topic). We don't have special guidelines for applications implemented in C++ relative to apps implemented in JavaScript. The fundamental usability recommendations are the same, no matter the implementation, since we are discussing user experience, not coding.
Therefore, the response time guidelines for web-based applications are the same as for all other applications. These guidelines have been the same for 46 years now, so they are also not likely to change with whatever implementation technology comes next.
0.1 second: Limit for users feeling that they are directly manipulating objects in the UI. For example, this is the limit from the time the user selects a column in a table until that column should highlight or otherwise give feedback that it's selected. Ideally, this would also be the response time for sorting the column — if so, users would feel that they are sorting the table. (As opposed to feeling that they are ordering the computer to do the sorting for them.)
1 second: Limit for users feeling that they are freely navigating the command space without having to unduly wait for the computer. A delay of 0.2–1.0 seconds does mean that users notice the delay and thus feel the computer is "working" on the command, as opposed to having the command be a direct effect of the users' actions. Example: If sorting a table according to the selected column can't be done in 0.1 seconds, it certainly has to be done in 1 second, or users will feel that the UI is sluggish and will lose the sense of "flow" in performing their task. For delays of more than 1 second, indicate to the user that the computer is working on the problem, for example by changing the shape of the cursor.
10 seconds: Limit for users keeping their attention on the task. Anything slower than 10 seconds needs a percent-done indicator as well as a clearly signposted way for the user to interrupt the operation. Assume that users will need to reorient themselves when they return to the UI after a delay of more than 10 seconds. Delays of longer than 10 seconds are only acceptable during natural breaks in the user's work, for example when switching tasks.
See Also:
Article on time scales in user experience.
References
Card, S. K., Robertson, G. G., and Mackinlay, J. D. (1991). The information visualizer: An information workspace. Proc. ACM CHI'91 Conf. (New Orleans, LA, 28 April-2 May), 181-188.
Miller, R. B. (1968). Response time in man-computer conversational transactions. Proc. AFIPS Fall Joint Computer Conference Vol. 33, 267-277.
Myers, B. A. (1985). The importance of percent-done progress indicators for computer-human interfaces. Proc. ACM CHI'85 Conf. (San Francisco, CA, 14-18 April), 11-17.
| 2024-11-08T17:41:36 | en | train |
22,510 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-16T13:11:00 | Microsoft charges patent infringements / Action against Linux, other open-source software may be difficult, experts say | null | http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/15/BUGDTPQR6V1.DTL&type=tech | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,511 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-16T13:14:18 | More Americans go for cell phones, drop landlines | null | http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/15/MNGMOPR2HE1.DTL&type=tech | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,512 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-16T13:17:04 | DOJ: Make "Attempted" (Copyright) Infringement an Offense | null | http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/002489doj_make_attempted_infringement_an_offense.php | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,513 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-16T13:18:35 | Vidmetrix: Video Analytics for a New Generation of Marketing | null | http://www.vidmetrix.com/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,516 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-16T13:20:37 | Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog | null | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/magazine/13audience-t.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,517 | dpapathanasiou | 2007-05-16T13:21:14 | The Only Way is the Wrong Way | null | http://waiterrant.net/?p=450 | 36 | 12 | [
22536,
22563,
22519,
22695,
22586,
22541,
23142
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,518 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-16T13:21:53 | Little confidence in Microsoft patent quest | null | http://news.com.com/Experts+say+Microsofts+patent+quest+wont+go+far/2100-7344_3-6184062.html?tag=nefd.lede | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,520 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-16T13:24:47 | MySpace responds to states' request for sex offender data | null | http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9719654-7.html?tag=nefd.aof | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,521 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-16T13:25:37 | TLC and E! try out Web-only shows | null | http://news.com.com/TLC+and+E+try+out+Web-only+shows/2100-1026_3-6184097.html?tag=nefd.top | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,522 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-16T13:28:19 | Computer chips designed to mimic how the brain works could shed light on our cognitive abilities. | null | http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/18626/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,528 | entrepreneur | 2007-05-16T13:57:01 | 3 Reasons Your Website Does Not Make Money | null | http://mindfulentrepreneur.com/blog/2007/05/16/3-reasons-your-website-does-not-make-money/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_article | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T05:52:05 | null | train |
22,529 | bootload | 2007-05-16T14:10:26 | World's most maintainable programming language | null | http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/the_worlds_most_maintainable_p.html | 4 | 4 | [
22583,
22565,
22624,
22750
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,534 | jkush | 2007-05-16T14:56:52 | Y Combinator Room on Meebo | null | http://www.meebo.com/room/ycombinator/ | 9 | 6 | [
22617,
22535,
22594,
22613,
22598
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,538 | transburgh | 2007-05-16T15:12:30 | Learn How to Go BIG by Going HOME! | null | http://www.gobignetwork.com/wil/2007/5/16/learn-how-to-go-big-by-going-home/10155/view.aspx | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,540 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-16T15:28:40 | Paul Buchheit:"Don't Be Evil" | null | null | 14 | 25 | [
22543,
22723
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,542 | amichail | 2007-05-16T15:30:13 | Financial arrangements for a temporary cofounder. What should be done? | null | 2 | 3 | [
22544,
22656
] | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
|
22,545 | buildv1 | 2007-05-16T15:33:20 | How to find a co-founder online (a success story) | null | http://blog.buildv1.com/article/21/how-to-find-a-co-founder-a-success-story | 3 | 1 | [
22555
] | null | null | fetch failed | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T01:08:48 | null | train |
22,552 | onethumb | 2007-05-16T16:03:37 | Sun storage not so good for web startups. Steer clear. | null | http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/05/16/sun-honeymoon-update-storage/ | 3 | 5 | [
22595,
23080
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,558 | chmike | 2007-05-16T16:30:05 | Murphy's law is not a joke ! | null | http://dis.weebly.com/1/post/2007/05/murphys-law-is-not-a-joke.html | 3 | 4 | [
22739,
22635,
22588,
22605
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,561 | wendyp | 2007-05-16T16:42:50 | Presenting Financials to Venture Capitalists | null | http://www.instigatorblog.com/presenting-financials-to-venture-capitalists/2007/05/16/ | 7 | 1 | [
22608
] | null | null | no_error | Presenting Financials to Venture Capitalists | null | null | What’s the best way to present financials to venture capitalists?
You don’t want to pitch VCs with full-blown financial models. Venture capitalists assume your financials are pulled from your backside, totally fabricated, and based on wild assumptions. On top of that, you’ll probably tell them that your financial projections are “extremely conservative” which they’ve heard a hundred times over.
My new startup, Standout Jobs is in the process of seeking financing. It’s not the first time I’ve been involved in raising money, but it is the first time I’ve been this actively involved, and the learning curve is significant. Much of my breakdown below is based on the processes we’re going through now alongside our advisors.
1. Develop a Financial Model
If you’re raising $10,000 from friends & family this isn’t necessary, although it’s a good exercise to go through no matter what. Building out a financial model gives you the chance to really think about the details of budgeting, costs, revenues, etc. It will also help set expectations, brainstorm new product ideas, and set milestones and goals.
You’re not going to show the VCs your financial model, but it serves as the backdrop for what you will pitch them.
2. Set a Revenue Target
Give VCs a revenue target, at least for the next 1-2 years. Beyond that is basically a black hole, except that you hope revenues skyrocket!
Don’t tell them it’s extremely conservative. Don’t tell them you only need 1% of the market. Do tell them how you arrived at that number.
3. Explain Your Assumptions
You’ve set your 1 and 2 year revenue targets. Now it’s time to explain to the VCs how you’re going to get there. And this is really the key. It’s at this point where you’re going to justify your revenue target and your business model.
Try breaking down your revenue targets into smaller and smaller chunks. Ask yourself questions like:
To hit our revenue target, how many clients do we need?
To get that many clients, how many prospects will we have to reach?
What will our conversion rate be from the free beta to paying system?
What will our retention rate be for customers from year to year?
The questions you ask will depend on your product/service and business model, but the goal is to get deeper and deeper into the details, as if you’re peeling an onion. The inside of the onion is really the heart of things and it reveals a lot.
You don’t have to present all of these numbers ad infinitum to the venture capitalists, but going through this exercise of taking a single revenue number and breaking it down will help.
4. Show VCs You’re Thinking About The Right Things
Venture capitalists don’t expect you to have all the answers. They know you don’t. But they do want to see that you’re thinking about a few critical things, namely: Business Model, Sales and Marketing.
Going through the steps above will help you demonstrate to VCs that you are thinking about these things. If you have a solid assumption for your conversion rate from free beta to paying customer, and you know how many paying customers you need, you know how many beta customers you need. Once you know how many beta customers you need, you can start to build a plan for getting them. Maybe that involves direct sales; contacting targeted customers to get them signed-up. If that’s the case, you can figure out what your conversion rate will be on sales calls and figure out how many people you have to call to sign up the right number of beta customers to convert to paying customers to hit your revenue targets. Phew.
Again, all of this is too much detail for a VC pitch, but going through this detailed thinking exercise will help.
Lots of technology companies have a “build it and they will come” approach. Heck, it can work. It’s still working today. But I wouldn’t hang my hat on it. And if you go to VCs with that model they have much less information and foundation off which to judge your pitch.
Remember: Your financials don’t have to be pulled from your arse.
Presenting financials is hard. If you can bring in more experienced entrepreneurs and advisors, do it. First-time entrepereneurs will have little or no experience with financial modeling or even tackling tough questions on how they’re going to market & sell their product. But the more you can tackle this stuff up front the better your pitch (and business) will be.
| 2024-11-08T13:08:36 | en | train |
22,564 | abstractbill | 2007-05-16T16:59:56 | Flickr censorship | null | http://thomashawk.com/2007/05/flickr-censorship.html?repost | 2 | 1 | [
22566
] | null | null | no_error | Flickr = Censorship – Thomas Hawk Digital Connection | null | null |
[I am CEO of Zooomr]
I’m pretty pissed right now. Two days ago I blogged about an incident involving Rebekka Gu�leifsd�ttira. Rebekka is one of the most popular photographers on Flickr and definitely someone that those of us who have been around for a while would consider “Old Skool” (RIP).
Rebekka is a single mom and art student living in Iceland. She’s an artist and a talented one at that. She does amazing things with her camera. Recently she discovered that a gallery Only-Dreemin had been ripping her off. They’d sold thousands of dollars worth of her images and when she caught them and tried to make them give her the money that they stole from her they refused. So Rebekka did what anyone with a following on the internet might do and she posted about her frustration and plight on her flickrstream. And her story resonated loudly with the flickr community. Her story made the front page of digg and by days end she had 100,000 views on this particular photograph with hundreds of supportive comments.
So what’s got me pissed today? What’s got me pissed today is that according to Rebekka, Flickr has removed her image from their site. That’s right. Not only did they remove and kill her image and her *non-violent* words of protest, but they censored each and every one of us who commented on her photograph, who offered support to Rebekka, who shared in her frustration by wiping every single one of our comments off the face of the internet forever.
According to Rebekka, Flickr’s explanation?�Flickr is not a venue for to you harass, abuse, impersonate, or intimidate others. If we receive a valid complaint about your conduct, we will send you a warning orterminate your account.�
WTF?!?
So a flickr photographer gets ripped off. Dares to complain about it. Has an outpouring of support on the internet over it and Yahoo decides censorship is the way to handle this? This is the worst I’ve seen from Yahoo yet.
You know when Yahoo decided to without my permission delete a photograph I’d posted of Michael Crook and along with it a long dialog of community conversation I was pissed. But I’m even more pissed now.
Yahoo should not get away with this. This type of censorship is not right. They should apologize to Rebekka and reinstate this photo that they deleted and all it’s comments. These comments that Flickr don’t belong to them. They belong to all of us. All of us, the community that makes Flickr even possible. Remember the community Yahoo? Remember the community that Flickr used to stand behind.
I remember back when I posted a much earlier photo on Flickr when I’d almost been ripped off by PriceRitePhoto. I used this photo to put pressure on PriceRitePhoto which eventually put them and their sleazy business practices out of business. You know what? Back when this happened I actually got a personal email supportive of my plight from someone on Flickr staff. That was then though. This is now.
Rebekka, I’m sorry that Yahoo has decided to censor you. Consider this post and the posting I’ll make at Flickr a protest in support of you and your right to share your frustrations in your photostream and in your art.
This really sucks, and know that even without Flickr, the attention to this matter will not die down. I’m not sure how this company got to Flickr and Yahoo, but this will not make their problem of cheating you go away. Because when people censor it only makes the censored story ring louder in the end.
Rebekka, you had my support when you originally posted about your plight and you have it now.
And to Yahoo and Flickr? Shame on you.
Digg this here.
Update: Flickr has formally responded on this matter and a debate regarding this “mistake” is going on over here in this Flickr Help Forum. Feel free to chime in if you’d like.
Update #2: More news on this now from the BBC.
Update #3: More here.
| 2024-11-08T17:10:14 | en | train |
22,569 | msgbeepa | 2007-05-16T17:13:23 | Web 2.0 Media: Create Animation Of Yourself | null | http://www.avinio.blogspot.com/2007/05/create-animation-of-yourself.html | 1 | -1 | null | null | true | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,570 | ells | 2007-05-16T17:28:19 | A couple ways to monitor your name/brand in Google and other search engines. | null | http://www.lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/feed-your-ego-with-rss-260726.php | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,572 | brett | 2007-05-16T17:30:32 | AOL Acquires ADTECH | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/16/aol-acquires-adtech/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,575 | unfoldedorigami | 2007-05-16T17:50:15 | fghdfgh | null | http://localhost/ | 1 | -1 | null | null | true | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,585 | Sam_Odio | 2007-05-16T18:12:56 | Is your idea a winner? | null | http://www.cambrianhouse.com/blog/startups-entrepreneurship/is-my-idea-a-winner/ | 12 | 3 | [
22912,
22612,
22732
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,587 | far33d | 2007-05-16T18:23:40 | In New Net Economy, Everyone Gets to Be Stupid for 15 Minutes | null | http://online.wsj.com/article/portals.html | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,590 | veritas | 2007-05-16T18:31:46 | Google To Launch Cross-Language Search Engine | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/16/google-to-launch-cross-language-search-engine/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,596 | brett | 2007-05-16T19:12:32 | A VC: The Age Question (continued) | null | http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/05/the_age_questio.html | 6 | 1 | [
22665
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,601 | Sam_Odio | 2007-05-16T19:54:30 | Insightful video interview w/ Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress | null | http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9719298-2.html | 1 | 1 | [
22603
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,610 | mattculbreth | 2007-05-16T20:58:01 | Survey: Apple is "best brand" | null | http://www.kpho.com/money/13332694/detail.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,616 | dawie | 2007-05-16T21:26:29 | Lots of Product Announcements At Google Today | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/16/lots-of-product-announcements-at-google-today/ | 4 | 4 | [
22644
] | null | null | no_error | Lots of Product Announcements At Google Today | TechCrunch | 2007-05-16T19:10:11+00:00 | Michael Arrington |
Lots of announcements today at Google during their Searchology event. My live blogging notes are here and I’ve posted on their pre-announcement of a cross-language search engine coming soon. See SearchEngineLand as well.
Cross-Language Search Engine
Google’s Udi Manber mentioned in passing that they would soon be launching a cross-language search engine. More details here.
Universal Search
Google’s Marissa Mayer announced what amounts to a first step towards a “universal search model.” This is effectively an integration of results from all of Google’s vertical search properties (video, images, news, maps, books, blogs, websites) which are presented for searches at Google.com and are ranked according to Google’s relevance engine. There are a number of example searches in my notes from the event earlier today. Videos from Google Video and YouTube are embedded directly in results for viewing.
Video Search Now Includes Non-Google Sites
In January Google launched a video search engine that included only Google Video and YouTube videos. Today they’ve expanded it to include video from Metacafe and “5-6 other large video sites.”
Google Experimental
Google Experimental launched today. This includes a number of enhancements to Google Search. Adding any of them will change your Google search results. These include a timeline or maps view, keyboard shortcuts, left hand search navigation and right hand contextual search navigation. Note that Google Experimental is not the same thing as Google Labs, which contains stand alone applications.
Google Navigation Bar
Google’s home page and many applications now include a navigation bar that gives on-click access to popular products like Gmail, Calendar, Docs & Spreadsheets and Picasa.
Most Popular
Michael Arrington most recently Co-Founded CrunchFund after leading TechCrunch to a successful exit with AOL. His venture investments include Uber, Airbnb and Pinterest. Michael was the Editor of TechCrunch, which he founded in 2005. In 2008 Time Magazine named Michael “One of the World’s 100 most influential people”. Michael also practiced securities law at O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.Michael graduated from Stanford Law School and
Claremont McKenna College.
View Bio
Newsletters
Subscribe for the industry’s biggest tech news
Related
Latest in TC
| 2024-11-08T20:13:35 | en | train |
22,628 | moorer | 2007-05-16T22:47:18 | TapeFailure moves out of beta and adds some very cool new features | null | http://www.centernetworks.com/tapefailure-moves-out-of-beta | 4 | 2 | [
22652,
22633
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,629 | louisadekoya | 2007-05-16T23:20:26 | The true meaning of Truemors in Guy Kawasaki's own words | null | http://www.ideatagging.com/the-meaning-of-truemors-in-guys-own-words/ | 1 | 1 | [
22639
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,632 | reitzensteinm | 2007-05-16T23:44:22 | Startups and The Challenge Of The Freemium Pricing Model | null | http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/onstartups/~3/117268028/Startups-and-The-Challenge-Of-The-Freemium-Pricing-Model.aspx | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,637 | reitzensteinm | 2007-05-17T00:02:46 | Engadget Knocks $4 billion off Apple Market Cap on Bogus iPhone email | null | http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/117280253/ | 4 | 1 | [
22638
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,640 | kemrich | 2007-05-17T00:41:13 | Marketing Tools and Software | null | http://www.marketingtoolz.com | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,642 | rms | 2007-05-17T00:57:28 | Veotag gets 750k investment | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/16/veotags-deep-tagging-gets-750k/ | 9 | 47 | [
22658,
22775,
22651,
22853
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,653 | hwork | 2007-05-17T01:50:06 | Computing on the Cloud | null | http://www.markmcgranaghan.com/2007/05/16/computing-on-the-cloud/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,662 | brett | 2007-05-17T02:31:14 | Google Corporate Information: Our Philosophy | null | http://www.google.com/corporate/today.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,666 | Xichekolas | 2007-05-17T02:49:54 | Summer Vacation | null | http://xichekolas.blogspot.com/2007/05/summer-vacation.html | 25 | 20 | [
22677,
22954,
22668,
22888,
22793,
22759,
22753,
22760,
22951,
22757
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,669 | nostrademons | 2007-05-17T02:53:50 | Flickr Founder Apologizes over Censorship | null | http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/40074/page3/#reply213196 | 4 | 5 | [
22716
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,672 | ACSparks | 2007-05-17T03:29:08 | What is the best way to manage database/table changes across multiple developers? | null | 1 | 1 | [
22673
] | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
|
22,674 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-17T03:33:39 | Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia | null | http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2081438,00.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia | 2007-05-17T01:32:54.000Z | Ian Traynor | A three-week wave of massive cyber-attacks on the small Baltic country of Estonia, the first known incidence of such an assault on a state, is causing alarm across the western alliance, with Nato urgently examining the offensive and its implications.While Russia and Estonia are embroiled in their worst dispute since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a row that erupted at the end of last month over the Estonians' removal of the Bronze Soldier Soviet war memorial in central Tallinn, the country has been subjected to a barrage of cyber warfare, disabling the websites of government ministries, political parties, newspapers, banks, and companies.Nato has dispatched some of its top cyber-terrorism experts to Tallinn to investigate and to help the Estonians beef up their electronic defences."This is an operational security issue, something we're taking very seriously," said an official at Nato headquarters in Brussels. "It goes to the heart of the alliance's modus operandi."Alarm over the unprecedented scale of cyber-warfare is to be raised tomorrow at a summit between Russian and European leaders outside Samara on the Volga.While planning to raise the issue with the Russian authorities, EU and Nato officials have been careful not to accuse the Russians directly.If it were established that Russia is behind the attacks, it would be the first known case of one state targeting another by cyber-warfare.Relations between the Kremlin and the west are at their worst for years, with Russia engaged in bitter disputes not only with Estonia, but with Poland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, and Georgia - all former parts of the Soviet Union or ex-members of the Warsaw Pact. The electronic offensive is making matters much worse."Frankly it is clear that what happened in Estonia in the cyber-attacks is not acceptable and a very serious disturbance," said a senior EU official.Estonia's president, foreign minister, and defence minister have all raised the emergency with their counterparts in Europe and with Nato."At present, Nato does not define cyber-attacks as a clear military action. This means that the provisions of Article V of the North Atlantic Treaty, or, in other words collective self-defence, will not automatically be extended to the attacked country," said the Estonian defence minister, Jaak Aaviksoo."Not a single Nato defence minister would define a cyber-attack as a clear military action at present. However, this matter needs to be resolved in the near future."Estonia, a country of 1.4 million people, including a large ethnic Russian minority, is one of the most wired societies in Europe and a pioneer in the development of "e-government". Being highly dependent on computers, it is also highly vulnerable to cyber-attack.The main targets have been the websites of:· the Estonian presidency and its parliament· almost all of the country's government ministries· political parties· three of the country's six big news organisations· two of the biggest banks; and firms specializing in communicationsIt is not clear how great the damage has been.With their reputation for electronic prowess, the Estonians have been quick to marshal their defences, mainly by closing down the sites under attack to foreign internet addresses, in order to try to keep them accessible to domestic users.The cyber-attacks were clearly prompted by the Estonians' relocation of the Soviet second world war memorial on April 27.Ethnic Russians staged protests against the removal, during which 1,300 people were arrested, 100 people were injured, and one person was killed.The crisis unleashed a wave of so-called DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service, attacks, where websites are suddenly swamped by tens of thousands of visits, jamming and disabling them by overcrowding the bandwidths for the servers running the sites. The attacks have been pouring in from all over the world, but Estonian officials and computer security experts say that, particularly in the early phase, some attackers were identified by their internet addresses - many of which were Russian, and some of which were from Russian state institutions."The cyber-attacks are from Russia. There is no question. It's political," said Merit Kopli, editor of Postimees, one of the two main newspapers in Estonia, whose website has been targeted and has been inaccessible to international visitors for a week. It was still unavailable last night."If you are implying [the attacks] came from Russia or the Russian government, it's a serious allegation that has to be substantiated. Cyber-space is everywhere," Russia's ambassador in Brussels, Vladimir Chizhov, said in reply to a question from the Guardian. He added: "I don't support such behaviour, but one has to look at where they [the attacks] came from and why."Without naming Russia, the Nato official said: "I won't point fingers. But these were not things done by a few individuals."This clearly bore the hallmarks of something concerted. The Estonians are not alone with this problem. It really is a serious issue for the alliance as a whole."Mr Chizhov went on to accuse the EU of hypocrisy in its support for Estonia, an EU and Nato member. "There is a smell of double standards."He also accused Poland of holding the EU hostage in its dealings with Russia, and further accused Estonia and other east European countries previously in Russia's orbit of being in thrall to "phantom pains of the past, historic grievances against the Soviet union and the Russian empire of the 19th century." In Tallinn, Ms Kopli said: "This is the first time this has happened, and it is very important that we've had this type of attack. We've been able to learn from it.""We have been lucky to survive this," said Mikko Maddis, Estonia's defence ministry spokesman. "People started to fight a cyber-war against it right away. Ways were found to eliminate the attacker."The attacks have come in three waves: from April 27, when the Bronze Soldier riots erupted, peaking around May 3; then on May 8 and 9 - a couple of the most celebrated dates in the Russian calendar, when the country marks Victory Day over Nazi Germany, and when President Vladimir Putin delivered another hostile speech attacking Estonia and indirectly likening the Bush administration to the Hitler regime; and again this week.Estonian officials say that one of the masterminds of the cyber-campaign, identified from his online name, is connected to the Russian security service. A 19-year-old was arrested in Tallinn at the weekend for his alleged involvement.Expert opinion is divided on whether the identity of the cyber-warriors can be ascertained properly.Experts from Nato member states and from the alliance's NCSA unit - "Nato's first line of defence against cyber-terrorism", set up five years ago - were meeting in Seattle in the US when the crisis erupted. A couple of them were rushed to Tallinn.Another Nato official familiar with the experts' work said it was easy for them, with other organisations and internet providers, to track, trace, and identify the attackers.But Mikko Hyppoenen, a Finnish expert, told the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper that it would be difficult to prove the Russian state's responsibility, and that the Kremlin could inflict much more serious cyber-damage if it chose to. | 2024-11-08T02:13:04 | en | train |
22,676 | lkozma | 2007-05-17T03:50:24 | "Microsoft is dead" - style essay from 1997, by John Walker, AutoDesk founder | null | http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/msapogee.html | 7 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,684 | mattjaynes | 2007-05-17T05:09:43 | Google's Potential Vulnerability - An Open Ad Network | null | http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/googles_potential_vulnerability_open_ad_network.php | 2 | 1 | [
22790
] | null | null | no_article | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T08:37:12 | null | train |
22,694 | brett | 2007-05-17T06:00:05 | BBC NEWS | Business | Google wins adult photos appeal | null | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6663527.stm | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,696 | Tichy | 2007-05-17T06:03:16 | Are you living 2.0? | null | 2 | 3 | [
22727,
22697,
22858
] | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
|
22,699 | andrew_null | 2007-05-17T06:10:48 | Andrew Chen: Forget advertising - will virtual goods be the killer revenue model for Web 2.0? | null | http://andrewchen.typepad.com/andrew_chens_blog/2007/05/forget_advertis.html | 11 | 8 | [
22772,
22704
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,700 | adrianwaj | 2007-05-17T06:17:18 | The future of venture capital from VC Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf | null | http://launchpadisrael.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=123 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,706 | Sam_Odio | 2007-05-17T06:40:45 | Usability - when should you make the users' choices for them? | null | http://nimbleit.squarespace.com/the-blog/2007/5/17/the-paradox-of-unlimited-choices.html | 5 | 0 | null | null | null | missing_parsing | The paradox of unlimited choices - Nimble Theory - Utah Internet Tech Startups, Angel Investing, HireVue, Park City. | null | null |
Via Presentation Zen: If some choice is better than no choice, and more choice is even better than that, then how can still even more choice — a seemingly unlimited array of choices in fact — not be a kind of decision-making nirvana where people make both better decisions and are happier about those decisions? Do not more choices and a greater number of options lead to better decisions? And if so, why then are people unhappy with their decisions even when a decision is a good one? Why do people feel regret even when they choose well?...Learning to love constraints At the end of the book Schwartz ends with 11 ways we can end the crippling effect of too much choice or “the tyranny of small decisions.” The last one in the list is simply this: “Learn to love constraints.” I recommend the book, but you can save your money and get a pretty good feel for the book’s content by watching this 2005 presentation by Barry Schwartz at TED (below). This is a good presentation, though you will surely have some tips to offer him on both slide design and on the issue of making appropriate fashion choices on the day of your presentation. “Imagine finding yourself lost on the open road. You finally see a lone gas station up ahead, you’re hungry to discover the route back to the freeway. You ask the attendant for directions, and he begins to offer plan A and plan B and plan C, each with varying degrees of specific detail. Rather than finding the clear, simple, and concise directions you were seeking, your brain is now swimming in a sea of even greater confusion. Clear, simple, and concise directions are all that you want.” We've all had a similar feeling while using a poorly-designed website, application, or even a cell phone that did everything under the sun except make calls that didn't drop halfway through a conversation. Simple, clear, concise As daily life becomes even more complex, and the options and choices continue to mount, making designs which are clear, simple, and concise becomes all the more important. Clarity and simplicity — often this is all people want or need, yet it’s increasingly rare (and all the more appreciated when it’s discovered). You want to surprise people? You want to exceed their expectations? Then consider making it beautiful, simple, clear…and great. The “greatness” may just be found in what was left out, not in what was left in.
| 2024-11-08T17:46:24 | null | train |
22,707 | henning | 2007-05-17T06:56:17 | Video of Guy Kawasaki pitching and demoing products - when he's in his true element, he's so kickass! | null | http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1405470092619647204 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | http_404 | Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 | null | null |
404. That’s an error.
The requested URL /videoplay was not found on this server. That’s all we know.
| 2024-11-08T13:50:46 | null | train |
22,712 | reitzensteinm | 2007-05-17T07:42:08 | The Alpha Geeks - Tim O'Reilly [MP3] | null | http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail197.html | 2 | 1 | [
22713
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,715 | RyanGWU82 | 2007-05-17T08:04:33 | Is angel investment just for pre-VC companies? | null | 1 | 1 | [
22721
] | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
|
22,726 | staunch | 2007-05-17T08:41:09 | The Largest Rails Application Loses Ground To PHP Competitor Due to Frequent Outages | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/17/making-the-switch-from-twitter-to-jaiku/ | 6 | 16 | [
22777,
22728,
22729,
22769,
22992
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,730 | reitzensteinm | 2007-05-17T08:55:54 | Making The Switch From Twitter to Jaiku (ouch) | null | http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/117371735/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | http_404 | Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 | null | null | 404. That’s an error.The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know. | 2024-11-08T17:34:34 | null | train |
22,733 | sergiutruta | 2007-05-17T09:11:41 | Advertising and Communities - Developing a Business Plan | null | http://www.sergiutruta.com/2007/05/17/advertising-and-communities-developing-a-business-plan/ | 1 | 8 | [
22795,
22892,
22832,
22734,
22778
] | null | null | fetch failed | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-07T18:29:24 | null | train |
22,738 | vlad | 2007-05-17T10:15:51 | Why some people excel and others don't! | null | http://www.sergiutruta.com/category/personal-development/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,742 | vlad | 2007-05-17T10:28:29 | Dave.TV - putting ads into videos the second a product is mentioned | null | http://blogs.business2.com/business2blog/2006/04/startup_watch_d.html | 2 | 1 | [
22743
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,744 | vlad | 2007-05-17T10:33:38 | New "Caching" Startup offers 5TB high-speed RAM data storage as a network appliance | null | http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/14/gear6-cachefx_1.html | 1 | 1 | [
22745
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,746 | vlad | 2007-05-17T10:38:22 | $3 a month Loopt competitor for Sprint "Ulocate" raises M$11 VC | null | http://blogs.business2.com/business2blog/2007/05/ulocate_finds_1.html | 9 | 1 | [
22784
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,747 | vlad | 2007-05-17T10:43:39 | SUN 9:00 Video - Likes Twitter, "Our business goes stale as soon as product is released." "Is technology a competitive weapon, or a cost?" | null | http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=463 | 2 | 1 | [
22748
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,749 | msgbeepa | 2007-05-17T10:50:32 | Web 2.0: Find Mirrors And Caches Of Popular Digg News | null | http://www.avinio.blogspot.com/2007/05/duggback-find-mirrors-and-caches-of.html | 1 | -1 | null | null | true | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,761 | jhm198 | 2007-05-17T12:59:05 | Comments on "UK tech inventors defeated by cash drought" | null | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/14/blighty_tech_lacks_venture_funding/comments/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,762 | yaacovtp | 2007-05-17T13:10:17 | 24/7 Real Media Bought by WPP for $649mm | null | http://www.247realmedia.com/EN-US/news/article_221.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,773 | vlad | 2007-05-17T13:37:54 | New Google Uber Search -- I like it | null | http://slashdot.org/articles/07/05/17/0342256.shtml | 5 | 1 | [
22774
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,780 | ells | 2007-05-17T13:59:57 | Is Web 2.0 Really About the Users? ( Some Truemors Bashing Involved) | null | http://wisdump.com/web/is-web-20-really-about-the-user/ | 1 | 1 | [
22781,
22975
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,787 | dottertrotter | 2007-05-17T14:38:09 | How many page views does a website need to produce a month before it can get advertisers? | null | 14 | 19 | [
22877,
22939,
22866,
22788,
22862,
22809,
22823,
22814,
22840
] | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
|
22,792 | Sam_Odio | 2007-05-17T15:14:55 | Meet the inventor of the mouse wheel | null | http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000865.html | 2 | 1 | [
22811
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,794 | amichail | 2007-05-17T15:17:20 | Do you hate it when a company gets lots of press coverage for a feature that can be implemented and tested in less than an hour? | null | 1 | 5 | [
22821,
22980,
22836,
22860
] | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
|
22,796 | budu3 | 2007-05-17T15:23:47 | How to become an independent programmer in just 1068 days | null | http://www.gusmueller.com/blog/archives/2005/12/25.html | 12 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Gus Mueller's Website | null | null |
Sunday, December 25th, 2005
How to become an independent programmer in just 1068 days.
If you watch the Evening at Adler video you'll come across a part where some of the guys on the panel talk about how much it costs to make the transition to doing the independent macintosh programmer thing. Specifically Jason Harris who apparently went deep into credit card debt when making the jump. He's out of debt now, but.... yikes.
When I started writing software on the side for fun, it never really crossed my mind that I would be able to support myself and do it full time. Of course, the dream was there in the back of my head, but I didn't think it was actually attainable. I figured my best bet was to become a good enough programmer to work for a decent mac company some day.
So in the beginning my objective with the software I wrote was to make enough money to buy toys. Toys being upgrades to the latest version of CodeWarrior and even for a period of time REALbasic. I never actually made any money off the apps pre-voodoopad, but it was fun anyway so I kept on coding. Then I discovered Project Builder (soon to be Xcode) and Interface Builder, and I could thankfully stop spending money on IDEs. Actually, that's not true. I kept on buying CodeWarrior because I really liked their IDE and how fast the compiler was, it just smoked gcc. However I never actually used it very much for anything but java because I couldn't get any real cocoa work done with it. But I kept on thinking the next version ... *this was the one*. Unfortunately they never really got there and CW Pro 9 was the last release I bought.
Anyway, so when I started selling VoodooPad (and astonishingly people were buying it) my goal was to be able to make enough money off it to buy a 23" cinema display which I was lusting after at the time (now I'm lusting after a cintiq). That was the goal. If I made that I'd be in heaven.
So Lesson #1 - Think small and make sure you really like what you are doing.
After I won a place in the Mac OS X Innovators Contest people really began to notice my application and I got to buy my cinema display and eat mexican at least once a week. Wooohoo! I was in heaven. And then the money kept on coming in. Not even close enough to live off of, but enough to make me worry about little things... like getting sued. So my next goal was to save up enough money to incorporate as Flying Meat Inc., so if I did get sued they wouldn't take my house. So I did that, and eventually setup my own company bank account for eSellerate to deposit into. Goals are good. When you make them, it lets you know you are on the right track.
Lesson #2 - Setting goals are good. If you make them that means you are on the right track.
At 2003's OSX Con the winners from the innovators contest were up on stage to talk and answer questions from the crowd. One of the questions from the audience was something along the lines of "So, how many of you guys are actually able to make enough money to live off this?". Paul Kafasis, Brent Simmons, some guys from the Omni Group, and Oliver Breidenbach were able to raise their hands. Myself and some other guys weren't.
Damnit, I want to work for myself.
Ok, I've got a new goal now. "Gus the indie programmer". But this one is obviously going to take a bit more time, and I can't just jump ship and hope for the best. I've got a house to pay off and stuff. I'd have to take out a loan... I hate debt. HATE IT.
So I needed to sit down and figure out exactly how much I'd need every month to get by. I think it was about this time that the "goals" cgi script was born. It was a simple little python script that connected to my sales database that was updated for every sale made. It printed out little statistics like how much I made today, how much I would have made if eSellerate wasn't taking their cut, how much I made within the past 7, 30, 60, 180, and 365 days, how much I've made this year, and the kicker- what percentage I was supposed to make for the time period to make my goal. And what the heck, I'll throw in a second "woohoo" goal while I'm at it. I also had little bars setup for every month that would go green if I made the goal for the month, and red if I didn't. The filler space was painted black. Here's what March-Dec 2003 looked like. (Two bars for every month, a small one for the real goal, the taller one for the w00t goal).
Notice the complete lack of any green. But that's ok.. notice the upwards trend. (07/July was when I won the award.)
I checked this script religiously. Every day, every hour, every 5 minutes sometimes. There were times when the day job was particularly rough and I just stared at the thing, praying for some green to magically appear.
Time went on... and then this started happening in 2004:
Not. Good. August was a particularly bad month, and very depressing. I saw my dreams slipping away. So very not good. What happened!?! Well, I had released VoodooPad 1.1.1 in December of 03', along with VoodooPad Lite. I had my best sales day ever... resulting from making a free version, go figure. That was the peak, then I came out with a couple more updates in Jan and Feb. After that I really started working on VoodooPad 2.0, aka "The release that just would not happen". Bah. I planned for way too many features in there, and broke it in so many different ways early on. Bad idea. No releases = No money.
Lesson #3 - Steadily improve your product. Big jumps in functionality means lots of time without updates, and releases are where you get nice spikes in sales.
I make a public beta in September, then I had the marriage thing happen, and more public betas. VoodooPad 2.0 was released in December of 2004.
OMFG I SEE GREEN.
Wow. I attributed the huge spike to a couple of things. A nice new big release that people liked (duh), and another that took me a little longer to figure out... people feel more comfortable with a 2.0. Now, I don't think you can release a 1.0 and then a 2.0 a week later... but if you have your name out there already from being talked about on blogs and news sites, and then people see a big shiny X.0 release they think "hey, I should check that out". That's my theory anyway, and I'm sticking to it.
So. I made the the goal. Time to quit the day job!
Lesson #4 - Don't quit your day job.
Just because I made my goal this month didn't mean I was going to next month, or the month after that. I figured it would be much safer to just bank all that money and only spend it when I needed to. That way I would have a nice pad of money for the months that weren't so good. This was another part of my long term plan- I absolutely needed at least 6 months worth of my "salary" in the bank before I would jump ship.
Lesson #5 - Have money in the bank for a rainy day.
Shit happens. You've got a great mp3 player, and then Apple comes out and gives one away for free. Which leads to the release of FlySketch-
Lesson #6 - Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
I wrote FlySketch so that should anything happen that would make sales of VoodooPad tank, I'd have another app to lean on for cash. Plus now I get to do fun things like sell bundles at a discount which is good for sales as well. Plus my mind wanders so it's good to work on something other than a desktop wiki all day long.
Moving right along...
So it turns out that I did end up making my goal for Jan '05. And Feb, March, April, and so on. Every month that passed my confidence in going indie increased. I talked it over with the wife, and we decided that when we moved to Seattle that I'd be doing this full time. For the first six months I'd have to make X amount of dollars, and the second six months (which starts in Jan '06) I'd have to make more... and so on.
Here's a fun pic:
Click on it for a larger image. No, I won't tell you what the dollar amounts are. I'm not getting rich, but I will be able to give myself a raise next month as planned. I'll say this- I'm paying myself more than my first job, but less than my last job. I'm not getting rich but I'm doing alright. If I lived somewhere a little bit cheaper I'd be doing better... but that's ok, it's really nice up here in the north west.
One more, because I'm getting tired of typing.
Lesson #7 - It's not good enough to write and sell something that people want, it has to be got to be something they'll spend money for as well.
(I hope that doesn't come off as me being some money grubbing so and so. But if I want to do this full time, then I need to be able to pay for the house, food, and the dogs like occasional treats every now and again which cost money as well. At least the commute is only 12 seconds, I save a lot on gas that way.)
I've seen some cool ideas come and go, but for whatever reason they just didn't stick with people. And I imagine that can be pretty upsetting if you spend a lot of time working on it and it goes nowhere. Try to look at your app with a critical eye. Take FlyGesture for example- there is no way I would ever be able to go indie with that app, it just doesn't appeal to enough people. It has its fans, but not the same way as VoodooPad does or even FlySketch to an extent. If you aren't seeing growth in your sales... well, you better have another plan.
Implementation counts too. Sure, you could write it in java, but you're going to be spending a lot of time making it a mac application. Carbon is cool, but hard to learn. REALbasic is nice for some things, but I haven't really seen a compelling consumer grade application written in it. Just use Cocoa, you'll be happier in the long run. Yes Objective-C is a funky language to learn, and it's C under that... but you can do it. I did. The only class I ever flunked was... wait for it... cs103, intro to computer programming in C. So you don't even have to be a good programmer. (Mr. Job Interviewer, you want me to write a bubble sort routine? Crap, I'm screwed- you might as well just move on to the next job applicant.)
You've got to make it look and feel nice as well. Make it a Macintosh™ application. Someone commented to me the other day that both Brent Simmons (maker of NetNewsWire) and myself seem to have a sense for making usable user interfaces. I then pointed out that we both just try and figure out what Panic would do. WWPD? Stick it on a bracelet and you are set. Emulate who you want to be like, but don't copy because that's lame*. I guess that's lesson #7 1/2 .
So that's it! Gus's risk-free-no-money-out-of-your-own-pocket path to sticking it to The Man!
Just plan, set realistic goals, meet those goals, diversify, save up, add four cups of patience, and have fun. And most importantly- work your ass off. It's not difficult, it's just not easy. It takes time and patience and hard work.
Now it's your turn- go make a better widget. (Just don't go making another note taking application because that's what we don't need another one of.)
* I totally ripped off a specific visual effect from Transmit 3.0, and put it in VoodooPad 2.5. Can you guess what and where it is?
(Update: edited for typos.)comments (38) # posted 10:11 pm (uct-6)
akm
people
other
im
| 2024-11-08T05:33:05 | en | train |
22,800 | transburgh | 2007-05-17T15:28:45 | Becoming an entrepreneur: What qualities do I need? | null | http://www.businesszone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=168070&d=1009&h=1008&f=1010&dateformat=%25o-%25B-%25Y | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_article | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T17:10:58 | null | train |
22,805 | Sam_Odio | 2007-05-17T15:40:24 | What are the top programming languages? The fastest growing? | null | http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/state_of_the_co_10.html | 6 | 5 | [
22865,
22946,
22947,
22906
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,812 | hotstufff | 2007-05-17T15:47:36 | Sam Odio is a Scam Artist - Trying to Sell Dinars? | null | http://www.dinarprofits.com/ | 2 | 2 | [
22830,
22925,
22838,
22815
] | null | true | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,813 | dawie | 2007-05-17T15:50:48 | Lean Development | null | http://tesugen.com/archives/03/04/mary-and-tom-poppendieck-lean-development-part1 | 3 | 5 | [
22834
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,835 | jslogan | 2007-05-17T16:39:03 | Has marketing and customer service become a game of fine print and exceptions? | null | http://www.jslogan.com/has-marketing-and-customer-service-become-a-game-of-fine-print-and-exceptions/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,843 | master54 | 2007-05-17T16:58:35 | What would you do if you realize the market you target is smaller than expected? | null | 2 | 7 | [
22849,
22846,
22859
] | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
|
22,844 | Mistone | 2007-05-17T16:59:12 | Any YCNews folks going to TieCon2007 tomorrow? | null | 1 | 3 | [
22917,
22847,
22927,
22979
] | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
|
22,848 | sharpshoot | 2007-05-17T17:02:41 | Y combinator in Ruby | null | http://www.dzone.com/rsslinks/y_combinator_in_ruby.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
22,850 | frunge | 2007-05-17T17:06:10 | UK startups "crippled" by lack of venture funding | null | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/14/blighty_tech_lacks_venture_funding/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | UK tech inventors defeated by cash drought | 2007-05-14T09:28:18Z | OUT-LAW.COM |
British technology is being crippled by a lack of venture funding, according to a leading UK entrepreneur who made his fortune in Silicon Valley.
TiVo founder Mike Ramsay says a lack of cash is forcing inventors to lower their hopes and ambitions.
Edinburgh-raised Ramsay, who invented the trailblazing TV hard disk recorder the TiVo, told weekly technology podcast OUT-LAW Radio that a lack of investment forces inventors to trim their own sails before they have the chance to test out ideas.
"There's no question in my mind that the talent is here, the entrepreneurs are here, and they're every bit as passionate and smart and savvy as any of them in Silicon Valley," said Ramsay. "The issue is money. Sources of funding for young entrepreneurs are not nearly as fluid as they are back there.
"As a result I think companies that could be high potential are not able to raise the funds that they want, and they reset their expectations to something that fits with the funds that they can get, and if those expectations are below critical mass the company won't break out, and that's a shame."
Ramsay said UK business is awash with private equity funding, but that very little of it is available for start-up tech firms. "I think the money is there, it's just not applied to that type of activity. There's private equity out there but only a small portion of that goes to venture capital. I think it's much more fluid in the US," he said.
Ramsay worked at Hewlett-Packard after leaving Edinburgh University and moved with the company to Silicon Valley, where he eventually joined animation computer specialists Silicon Graphics.
He and Jim Barton left Silicon Graphics to form a company in the late 1990s and managed to raise $3m in venture capital funding before even having a fixed business plan. The pair came up with the idea for the TiVo and faced extreme legal pressure from the television networks which believed their business was threatened by the machines' ability to fast-forward past advertising.
"There were all sorts of arguments about, 'your right to watch television in the United States is a right that is only granted if you watch the commercials'," he said. "At the end of the day it was the Sony/Betamax ruling, that was a Supreme Court ruling, that came out of a lawsuit Sony was involved in when they first came out with the video recorder. The result of that ruling gave people freedom to record for personal use."
TiVo won its arguments and television networks eventually even invested in the company. "Over time they realised this was not a TiVo thing, we had created a DVR [digital video recorder] and it had a life of its own and it was going to exist independently of us. Over time the climate changed, but initially it was interesting."
Copyright © 2007, OUT-LAW.com
OUT-LAW.COM is part of international law firm Pinsent Masons.
| 2024-11-07T20:04:43 | en | train |
22,851 | sharpshoot | 2007-05-17T17:08:15 | Interview with Niklas Zennstrom, founder of Skype, after selling Skype for $2.6Bn to eBay | null | http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article597043.ece | 5 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.