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11,200 | comment | danw | 2007-04-10T10:53:05 | null | <a href="http://www.carsonified.com/misc/survey-how-much-cash-for-small-business">http://www.carsonified.com/misc/survey-how-much-cash-for-small-business</a> might be of interest. | null | null | 10,928 | 10,928 | null | null | null | null |
11,201 | comment | ivan | 2007-04-10T10:55:49 | null | I'm not local, however my name can indicate that (even I taught russian language 10 years 'cos we were a part of communist block), only thinking about it. everyone goes to the west, but Russia is virgin land in on-line business, there are 140milion potential customers not counting satellite states, like Ukraine where people speak russian. that's my opinion :) Stability is not important, you can run on .com domain, or buy domain at the same company as google for $20 and host anywhere in stable country in case, we are talking about on-line business. | null | null | 11,198 | 11,138 | null | [
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11,202 | comment | ivan | 2007-04-10T11:01:37 | null | Very often, it's like masochist, the problem is, I'm not submissive :) | null | null | 11,189 | 11,189 | null | null | null | null |
11,203 | comment | oneildg | 2007-04-10T11:20:02 | null | Microsoft is not dead. They are smart. Do not forget that they own significant shares in Apple. It was Microsoft that helped Apple come back. If you take a close look you may find that Apple is Microsofts support. Strange angle I agree. With Apple being percieved as strong, Microsoft can not be suide as easily for anything they do to control or manipulate the market. Deffinately they are not publicly viewed as a Manopoly any more. Take a close look from this direction and you may find another good article to write. <p>What has helped the market more than Apple or Linux is this: desktop applications have standardized and the conversion tools make even programs like excell (with macros and arrays) interchangable with other nock off products. Thanks goes to the unknowns that supply open source that is interchangeable with MS products. If this was not avaialble every business would be locked into one desktop and that would likely still be MS Office.
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11,204 | story | sharpshoot | 2007-04-10T11:38:14 | CiteUlike is just amazing | null | http://www.citeulike.org/ | 3 | null | 11,204 | 3 | [
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11,205 | comment | sharpshoot | 2007-04-10T11:39:29 | null | Just rediscovering my love for citeulike upon going back to PhD work after a week of startups :). Plus its had a reskinning - check out the "digg for academic papers" part. | null | null | 11,204 | 11,204 | null | null | null | null |
11,206 | comment | SteveC | 2007-04-10T11:47:14 | null | If it was just him giving me an idea then I would have simply done it myself without his involvement. Our product is about teaching guitar. I didn't have any guitar experience while he has nearly two decades worth. He has to produce all the content which is a massive task in itself. The difference is he works on a guitar and I work on a computer. I should make clear the idea is no longer just his. He may have had the initial idea but it's developed a great deal from there to be made up of many ideas from both of us. Ownership of an idea seems to dilute over time. I believe our relationship works because it is equal. Equal decision making power, work load, and business ownership. I think any business relationship where the workload isn't equally shared is doomed to failure. Ideas aren't really worth much. His idea was seemed pretty obvious but we discovered no one was really doing it (due to technical restraints which have only started lifting over the past five years, not through lack of a market ;-).<p>For a successful business relationship I believe you need to bring an essential skill that helps the project get off the ground, not just an idea. Otherwise, your only alternative is to learn how to code or pay someone to do it. | null | null | 10,479 | 10,249 | null | null | null | null |
11,207 | comment | tomh | 2007-04-10T11:48:06 | null | You need local understanding to make it work. Google's story was that they bought out an ex-Russian entrepreneur who ran Dulance.com and made him head of R&D for Russia. And while you have 140mln population, keep in mind that a) it's decreasing every year by 600-700k, and b) less than 30mln are online.<p>Certainly the cost of a Russian programmer is less than the cost of an Indian programmer, but keep in mind that salaries decrease as soon as you get outside of Moscow. In neighboring Kharkov, Ukraine for example, QA staff can be had for $400 a month, and experienced hires will be hired for $800-$1200 a month.<p>Also keep in mind that locals are already snapping up large parts of the startup space. There is already a RuTube, a Russian Amazon (Ozon.ru, who just got $18mln funding BTW), and a Russian Google (Yandex.ru). So, your first mover advantage might be over already.
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11,208 | story | jkush | 2007-04-10T11:59:07 | If Microsoft made an offer to buy your startup would you sell? | null | 3 | null | 11,208 | 14 | [
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11,209 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-10T12:00:41 | null | I think how you answer this question says a lot. I'm not sure how I would answer this question myself.<p>Would you refuse to sell on principle? Or because as Paul says, Microsoft is dead?<p>Or do you just take the money, principles be damned?
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11,210 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-10T12:00:52 | null | The title headers are the same size as the category words... makes for a hard read... do you just get used to it? | null | null | 11,204 | 11,204 | null | null | null | null |
11,211 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-10T12:06:51 | null | When there's a mispelling or obvious sign that someone in HR wrote the job description. <p>For Example: "Must be proficient in Sequel."<p>or<p>"Must have 10+ years experience in the .NET environment."<p>
When that kind of thing catches my attention, I want nothing to do with a company where people who don't know what they're talking about are allowed to represent the company to the public. | null | null | 11,024 | 11,024 | null | null | null | null |
11,212 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-10T12:07:25 | null | Just to split hairs here, is there a difference between principles damned at $1, and principles damned at $1e7?<p>Also, Microsoft might be "dead" but they still provide value to their customers, whatever it is. While Vista might be way overhyped and/or overpriced, it can still do useful things. If your product reaches more customers and results in significant benefits for them, why not leverage MS's position? The principle then, is not about money. It's about your product's purpose. Hotmail for example. | null | null | 11,209 | 11,208 | null | [
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11,213 | comment | kul | 2007-04-10T12:07:48 | null | With boso, ibtalk and now auctomatic, the instinctive decisions have always been the best. I'm wary of the term 'common sense' because I don't really think it's all that common. Also, what's really weird, is that at time x, you can believe 100% and with everything in your heart that decision y is the best course of action. At x + 3 days, you can then believe, also 100% without any doubt, that decision y was wrong and that you should now do z. It's not that that is indecision, it's just that things can move so quickly and variables change so much that you can change your mind 100% about something without too much difficulty. (and I've been using 100% too much). I believe an important quality of a CEO is to be able to do that, and continually convince himself that the latest course of action is the most prudent, but more importantly, convince his team that it is the right path to take too, (and that bit of advice came to me from someone who works at Yelp). | null | null | 11,189 | 11,189 | null | null | null | null |
11,214 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-10T12:08:47 | null | I agree - it's just that I've met too many people who live by principle and not by the situation.
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11,215 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-10T12:13:07 | null | This post is so interesting,<p>there is no guarantee that those who didn't fill in the email address will read this. And to make sure they read this, you would want to send them an email. | null | null | 11,124 | 11,124 | null | [
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11,216 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-10T12:14:05 | null | Do you mean "gut instinct"? I go by that a lot and have been learning how to trust it more. More often than not, my initial reaction is right. <p>If you're interested, here's a link to a book about this topic:<p><a href="http://snipurl.com/1fxk7">http://snipurl.com/1fxk7</a><p> | null | null | 11,189 | 11,189 | null | [
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11,217 | comment | amg | 2007-04-10T12:22:53 | null | I'm an american living in India and there are opportunities for a million web 1.0 models. But the fact is it may be too early in the game to build anything of lasting value. But the Baazee deal was impressive considering it was long after the bubble had burst.
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11,218 | comment | dpapathanasiou | 2007-04-10T12:25:14 | null | Here's a technique using power law distributions: <a href="http://thraxil.com/users/anders/posts/2005/12/13/scaling-tag-clouds">http://thraxil.com/users/anders/posts/2005/12/13/scaling-tag-clouds</a>
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11,219 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-10T12:32:01 | null | your english does not have to be good.
to have a successful startup, you dont have to relocate to the USA (except for YC). | null | null | 11,156 | 11,124 | null | [
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11,220 | comment | Benja | 2007-04-10T12:32:55 | null | I don't find it ironic. I find it unrelated. If you could find a successful startup today that used a lot of IBM technology -- even if you could show that a startup today succeeded only because they were using IBM technology -- that wouldn't turn IBM back into the dangerous monopolist it once was (which was what Paul's article was about). | null | null | 11,099 | 9,770 | null | null | null | null |
11,221 | story | juwo | 2007-04-10T12:37:48 | simple suggestion for YC: simply list the selected teams for Summer funding on the home page (re: email addresses missing) | null | 2 | null | 11,221 | 7 | [
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11,222 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-10T12:39:57 | null | intuition can mask prejudice | null | null | 11,189 | 11,189 | null | null | null | null |
11,223 | comment | smackaysmith | 2007-04-10T12:47:44 | null | In western Michigan, a job listing. | null | null | 11,024 | 11,024 | null | null | null | null |
11,224 | comment | shiro | 2007-04-10T12:48:51 | null | Not exactly what you asked for, but another option is to use persistent objects (e.g. AllegroCache) instead of mapping them to RDBMS. | null | null | 11,183 | 10,875 | null | null | null | null |
11,225 | comment | jwecker | 2007-04-10T12:51:44 | null | btw, HOP uses the Bigaloo web server and so isn't quite adequate apparently for a high traffic site (like I assume most here will have). here's an email exchange I had with the author the other day- sorry if the comment's a bit big:<p>I apologize for such a late answer. I'm always fighting with email. I'm
definitively not good at it because I'm not able to answer at a decent pace.<p> Hi Manuel. I've just been playing with Hop. Well done. It's just
beautiful. A couple of questions about it:
first, the bigloo web server- is this completely necessary? I guess one
of 4 things would need to happen for hop to be totally ideal:
<i> Bigloo implements light-weight threads Gambit-scheme style so that it
can have erlang-like load capacity (
<a href="http://www.sics.se/~joe/apachevsyaws.html">http://www.sics.se/~joe/apachevsyaws.html</a> ) (most preferable option,
IMO, though I have no idea what your feelings are here. To me this
would make bigloo light-years ahead of all other scheme imps.)
I have tried several things concerning the multi-threading. You can read
our FairThreads proposal (<a href="http://www.inria.fr/mimosa/Manuel.Serrano).">http://www.inria.fr/mimosa/Manuel.Serrano).</a>
When I did this study I though that FairThreads was a decent solution.
Now that's no longer clear to me. Hop does not use Fair threads but
Posix like threads. I'm quite aware of all the troubles that come with
this kind of threads. I have not considered an Erlang-like solution
yet but that's something I could envision.<p> </i> Get hop to work with a gambit-scheme server instead of bigloo (where
would i start with this? can you point me to relevant points in the
code?)
No, I think that you cannot. Hop is really not a portable Scheme
program. It extensively relies on Bigloo features. I'm afraid that
you will have to rewrite entirely. It's not a huge program but it is
not that small either. The problem is that it uses a lot of libraries
that you would have to re-implement too. All in all it's about 40.000
lines of Scheme code. I don't really recommend to try to re-implement
that (except if you are very brave ;-)<p> <i> Get hop to work with mod_lisp (less preferable, IMO)
No. I don't think that a solution too. Hop needs to be running
permanently. That is two successive requests must be handled in the
same execution environment (i.e., the first request may set a global
variable that is read by the second request). Hence, even if you want
to use Apache you will be forced to have a server running somewhere
and you will have to establish a communication between Apache and that
server. Why not directly using Hop as a server?<p> Second item is the overall latency and possible redundancy... actually, I
don't know how to phrase the problem- but it boils down to this, I
counted over 27 distinct "connecting to server" cycles when you click
on the "weblets" tab of the Hop Home page. It took quite a while
re-establishing the connection to the server 27 times. Are there
thoughts on overcoming this?
Not really but... First, the Hop server supports keep-alive connections.
This should help. Then, honestly, I have hoped to find time to optimize
the server for months. I have not found that time yet but I think that I will
have it around the end of Spring. At that moment, I will study the problem
you are mentioning.<p>However, I'm using Hop on a daily basis. Even more, in order to push it to
its limits, I'm using it as my regular proxy. That is all my HTTP connections,
on all my machines, go through a Hop proxy/server. The performance are
acceptable. That is, I'm not annoyed by an important slow down due to Hop.<p> Thanks again!!
You are welcome. Thanks for the encouragements.<p>--
Manuel | null | null | 10,969 | 10,875 | null | null | null | null |
11,226 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-10T12:51:47 | null | also, (your announcement on email addresses has already been buried) some of the posts can be announcement posts and not scroll down - oops! becoming like a traditional newsgroup. | null | null | 11,221 | 11,221 | null | [
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11,227 | comment | danw | 2007-04-10T12:55:40 | null | Presumably anyone who didnt fill in the email in the profile would have to be contacted using the email address in the application form. | null | null | 11,215 | 11,124 | null | null | null | null |
11,228 | story | mattjaynes | 2007-04-10T13:00:18 | The Art of Avoiding an Asshole [Cofounder] - Guy Kawasaki | null | http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/04/linkedin_and_th.html | 10 | null | 11,228 | 8 | [
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11,229 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-10T13:02:56 | null | This post is actually about a 'boss', but it fits very well when considering a cofounder. <p>The numbered points at the bottom are the best ;) | null | null | 11,228 | 11,228 | null | null | null | null |
11,230 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-10T13:05:02 | null | Actually, a better question would be:<p>Would you rather sell your soul to the devil or to this guy?<p><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6843390913661737077">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6843390913661737077</a><p>Seriously, I have a hard time deciding that one ;) | null | null | 11,208 | 11,208 | null | [
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11,231 | comment | Some1 | 2007-04-10T13:07:28 | null | You certanly have something realy messed up.
MS dead ? Wake up! How can u even compare MS wich has 90% of the market with Apple wuch haves like 5% to 7% well that's rubbish.
How can u think that ... Appple is evolving and leaving Windows behind.. hm.. do u think that Bill G. Will allow that ?
Have u heard/read about the interview of Windows Vienna?
Sorry "my frind" but u are.. simply wrong.
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11,232 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-10T13:09:11 | null | Haha. No matter how many times I see that video it kills me. Thanks for the laugh, I needed it.<p>Hahaha. | null | null | 11,230 | 11,208 | null | [
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11,233 | story | mattjaynes | 2007-04-10T13:09:18 | Is Amazon's Mechanical Turk a Failure? | null | http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000828.html | 1 | null | 11,233 | 0 | null | null | null |
11,234 | comment | ivan | 2007-04-10T13:10:32 | null | there is no need to read Guy's article to give it a point here ... specially if you are half Scotsman :) | null | null | 11,228 | 11,228 | null | [
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11,235 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-10T13:11:39 | null | <i>'... your announcement on email addresses has already been buried ...'</i><p>one way to get around this is to have a status message at the top broadcasting to all users as they login & use news.yc. Pretty simple to do. | null | null | 11,226 | 11,221 | null | null | null | null |
11,236 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-10T13:13:03 | null | High quality download:<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~3/76547149/ted_robinson_k_2006.mp4">http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~3/76547149/ted_robinson_k_2006.mp4</a> | null | null | 11,110 | 11,110 | null | null | null | null |
11,237 | comment | blader | 2007-04-10T13:13:25 | null | Realistically, of course I would!<p>Theoretically, it would depend on the terms, the price, and competing offers. If in the unlikely event that Google and Microsoft made competing offers, both requiring substantial vesting terms (2+ years), then Microsoft would have to offer maybe 15-30% more for it to make sense. | null | null | 11,208 | 11,208 | null | null | null | null |
11,238 | comment | blader | 2007-04-10T13:16:05 | null | I'm pretty surprised, I mean writing a script to slurp the emails can't take more than a couple of minutes. | null | null | 11,147 | 11,124 | null | [
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11,239 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-10T13:16:36 | null | <i>'... Actually, a better question would be: ...'</i><p>My take would be, <i>"do you want to work for MS?"</i>. The buyout would probably be conditional on the team working with/for Microsoft until they "get up to speed". So put your hand up if you want to work for SoftCo? | null | null | 11,230 | 11,208 | null | null | null | null |
11,240 | comment | shadowolf | 2007-04-10T13:17:39 | null | Chicago, 26 | null | null | 10,241 | 9,986 | null | null | null | null |
11,241 | story | anonymous2 | 2007-04-10T13:19:29 | Financial information data for web2.0 businesses - any (businessplan) examples available? | null | 3 | null | 11,241 | 2 | [
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11,242 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-10T13:20:12 | null | Thanks ;) Good luck w/ your app! | null | null | 11,232 | 11,208 | null | [
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11,243 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-10T13:21:16 | null | Same to you sir! | null | null | 11,242 | 11,208 | null | null | null | null |
11,244 | comment | shadowolf | 2007-04-10T13:23:12 | null | I love this post. I loved it so much it was forwarded to all my friends that hate their jobs. It was very inspiring for all of them, esspecially since most of us are looking to escape the corporate world and its life energy sucking affect. | null | null | 6,668 | 6,668 | null | null | null | null |
11,245 | comment | brlewis | 2007-04-10T13:25:12 | null | They say it's free for business or personal use. That exerpt from the FAQ seems to be about making a derivative program for making SWFs. | null | null | 11,040 | 11,030 | null | [
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11,246 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-10T13:26:26 | null | He he, I dunna ken fer whutchur oon aboot!<p>Btw, great work on <a href="http://jobitems.com">http://jobitems.com</a> ;) | null | null | 11,234 | 11,228 | null | [
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11,247 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-10T13:33:58 | null | Jeff Bezos made an investment. They didn't need it, but just wanted to have access to Bezos from what I understand.<p>Here's their announcement:<p><a href="http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives2/bezos_expeditions_invests_in_37signals.php">http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives2/bezos_expeditions_invests_in_37signals.php</a> | null | null | 10,955 | 10,898 | null | null | null | null |
11,248 | comment | amichail | 2007-04-10T13:34:11 | null | But that's what this program is. | null | null | 11,245 | 11,030 | null | null | null | null |
11,249 | comment | ivan | 2007-04-10T13:35:05 | null | If Microsoft would ... there will be many more who would maybe google or yahoo :) So I would not and not because of PG article. | null | null | 11,208 | 11,208 | null | null | null | null |
11,250 | comment | sha | 2007-04-10T13:35:11 | null | Yes you Are right
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11,251 | comment | busy_beaver | 2007-04-10T13:40:16 | null | In the comment section, Shefaly makes a good point about trying to observe the guy in social situations (i.e., not a formal interview or business meeting).<p>I recommend visiting a restaurant and observing how he treats the waitstaff. If he's rude or abusive to the waiter, how do you think he's going to treat you when you're his employee or partner? | null | null | 11,228 | 11,228 | null | null | null | null |
11,252 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-10T13:43:47 | null | Another way to frame the idea would be to rely more on your subconscious - all those automatic responses to situations based on a lifetime of experience. This is standard practice for designers who spend a great deal of time absorbing the aspects of a problem at hand, then put it aside. A minute/hour/day/week later comes the Aha!, a subconsciously formed integration solving the problem. (No magic involved). <p>One experiment I tried was for a very large multiple choice test. (For the Architect exam, 3 days of 10 hour tests). I found that when taking the practice test, 95% of the time that I went back and changed an answer, thinking I had answered it wrong the first time, I actually changed it from right to wrong. So for the actual test, I went through the test once only with one answer, left hours before every one else, and aced it. The moral: The Subconscious is a good thing - you can rely on it. | null | null | 11,216 | 11,189 | null | [
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11,253 | comment | mdakin | 2007-04-10T13:43:54 | null | Back when I was in school I noticed a pattern emerge while taking tests over freshman year: If I changed a test answer a statistically HUGE amount of the time I changed it from the correct answer to an incorrect one. After noticing this pattern I stopped second guessing myself! | null | null | 11,189 | 11,189 | null | [
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11,254 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-10T13:44:56 | null | Nice anecdote. | null | null | 11,252 | 11,189 | null | null | null | null |
11,255 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-10T13:46:45 | null | Don't worry, I'm planning to podcast it and post it here sometime that night ;) | null | null | 11,091 | 10,948 | null | null | null | null |
11,256 | comment | nonrecursive | 2007-04-10T13:50:34 | null | One of the reasons I asked this question is because recently I participated in a webinar by marketingexperiments.com . The folks at MEC said they tested three different price points for a product - $10, $12, $15 (something like that) and asked the audience, many of whom were marketing professionals, which price they thought performed the best. The majority of them were wrong.<p>The moral, in that case, was that a marketer's instinct is a fine thing, but doing online testing gives you real knowledge of the situation. By doing testing not only can you learn if your instinct is right, but you can glean information about your users/visitors as well. | null | null | 11,189 | 11,189 | null | null | null | null |
11,257 | story | danw | 2007-04-10T13:58:17 | How to create a Twitter bot | null | http://www.techquilashots.com/2007/04/10/how-to-create-a-twitter-bot/ | 1 | null | 11,257 | 0 | null | null | null |
11,258 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-10T14:08:08 | null | Click on "Startup News", that's the front page not the "new" tab. It's currently on top. | null | null | 11,221 | 11,221 | null | [
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11,259 | comment | heylo77 | 2007-04-10T14:09:43 | null | <a href="http://www.businessplanarchive.org">http://www.businessplanarchive.org</a> - but those are old bp s
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11,260 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-10T14:16:51 | Salesforce.com buys Web content management firm | null | http://news.com.com/Salesforce.com+buys+Web+content+management+firm/2100-1014_3-6174628.html?tag=nefd.top | 2 | null | 11,260 | 0 | null | null | null |
11,261 | comment | ecuzzillo | 2007-04-10T14:20:41 | null | There are multiple CL communities. comp.lang.lisp famously sucks, but (for instance) #lisp isn't so bad. | null | null | 11,152 | 10,875 | null | null | null | null |
11,262 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-10T14:22:01 | Canonical wants open-source cooperation | null | http://news.com.com/Canonical+wants+open-source+cooperation/2100-7344_3-6174662.html?tag=nefd.top | 1 | null | 11,262 | 0 | null | null | null |
11,263 | comment | cwilbur | 2007-04-10T14:24:38 | null | Microsoft's money is as green as any other money I'm likely to be offered for the software; my decision would depend on other things like the amount they were offering and the terms of the deal. <p>For instance, "must move to Redmond," "must sign a non-compete contract," and "must be developed in Microsoft proprietary languages and for Microsoft proprietary platforms" would all be deal-killers. <p>My goal here is not to be rich, necessarily, but to create the kind of company I want to work for and make it profitable enough that I don't need to work for any other company. If any buyer, even Microsoft, offered the sort of environment I wanted to work in, plus enough money that I could walk away and not need to work another corporate IT job again if the environment changed, I'd sell.<p>And some of this is predicated on the experience of a good friend of mine, whose team mostly bootstrapped a very profitable company, then sold it to their largest corporate customer; suddenly they were getting guaranteed salaries, and they got to watch their project earn tens of millions in revenue, but the working environment was politically toxic and the company (now a wholly-owned subsidiary) was the football in constant turf wars, and (in retrospect, especially after seeing the first two years' income from the project) the price they asked was about 1/10 of what it should have been.<p>I can't alter the turf wars and political toxicity in certain corporations, but I can make sure I ask a price for my company that means I can stand up and walk away with no financial worries if they develop.
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11,264 | comment | cs | 2007-04-10T14:24:49 | null | From Eastern Europe ::: for us, the real life hackers with only 1% of your GDP, it is obvious to _USE_ a software or any IP product, service rather than paying for it. We have money only for cheap hardware (forget macbook), broadband, and maybe some for hosting. These trends represent the future: 4/5 of world population the chinese, indian, arabs, or latinos won't have more money to spend going online.<p>From this entire business scene only Google is able to get money from us. We are willing to pay only for Google Ads because they are cheap, straight, and delivers ROI next minute.<p>We go connected for nothing, we create for nothing and we get revenue by partnering Google.<p>Any other company who does not follow this business model is, or will be dead.
Nobody ever will pay for any tools to create an online business but we will share our revenue with who generates us profit.<p><p>
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11,265 | story | joshwa | 2007-04-10T14:26:23 | Just don't call it a Web OS | null | http://gigaom.com/2007/04/10/webos-or-not/ | 2 | null | 11,265 | 0 | null | null | null |
11,266 | comment | timg | 2007-04-10T14:26:45 | null | Just because Microsoft is dead, doesn't mean you can't take their money.. | null | null | 11,209 | 11,208 | null | null | null | null |
11,267 | story | entrepreneur | 2007-04-10T14:26:58 | 5 Steps for Online Business Financial Planning | null | http://mindfulentrepreneur.com/blog/2007/04/10/5-steps-for-online-business-financial-planning/ | 2 | null | 11,267 | 0 | null | null | null |
11,268 | story | danw | 2007-04-10T14:27:56 | error again - please kill this | null | http://www.access-company.com/developers/documents/docs/zenofpalm/Enlightenment.html#971673 | 3 | null | 11,268 | -1 | null | null | true |
11,269 | comment | timg | 2007-04-10T14:28:29 | null | Not too bad. | null | null | 11,204 | 11,204 | null | null | null | null |
11,270 | story | danw | 2007-04-10T14:29:21 | The Path to Enlightenment - Palm Design Philosophies, Practices and user testing tips | null | http://www.access-company.com/developers/documents/docs/zenofpalm/Enlightenment.html | 2 | null | 11,270 | 1 | [
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11,271 | story | joshwa | 2007-04-10T14:29:56 | Adobe CS3 Configurator: Should your product lineup really require something like this? | null | http://blog.thebigreason.com/cs3-configurator/index.php | 1 | null | 11,271 | 1 | [
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11,272 | comment | joshwa | 2007-04-10T14:30:38 | null | No offense to John Nack (Photoshop PM), but seriously, what were they thinking? | null | null | 11,271 | 11,271 | null | null | null | null |
11,273 | comment | timg | 2007-04-10T14:30:49 | null | My most recent startup somehow became much more popular in London and the Netherlands than in the US.. so where you're located isn't so important. What's important is that you understand the people in this location's needs better than others. | null | null | 11,138 | 11,138 | null | null | null | null |
11,274 | comment | timg | 2007-04-10T14:34:27 | null | I don't watch television, and I know many of you don't... but isn't this exactly what reality TV has been doing? Not that this idea doesn't have a lot of potential yet. | null | null | 10,488 | 10,460 | null | null | null | null |
11,275 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-10T14:35:08 | null | How does it work? I don't think it is possible to draw with JavaScript, so I suppose it is an AJAX application that loads the lines drawn immediately from the server? I am amazed how fast the reaction time is. | null | null | 10,872 | 10,872 | null | null | null | null |
11,276 | story | python_kiss | 2007-04-10T14:36:59 | Forget the eBay Exit, Sell on Web2.0forSale | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/forget-the-ebay-exit-sell-on-web2forsale/ | 1 | null | 11,276 | 0 | null | null | null |
11,277 | story | kevinxray | 2007-04-10T14:43:25 | Where's the Beef? | null | http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing-advertising/strategic-marketing/4057267-1.html | 1 | null | 11,277 | 0 | null | null | null |
11,278 | story | Readmore | 2007-04-10T14:43:45 | What's Facebook worth? Fast Company doesn't really know... | null | http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2007/04/09/inside_facebook_whats_it_worth.html | 7 | null | 11,278 | 7 | [
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11,279 | comment | cwilbur | 2007-04-10T14:44:29 | null | Positively? the job listing tells me what I want to know in order to determine whether I want to find out more about the position (what am I doing, what tools do they provide, who am I working for, where are they located?)<p>Negatively? Evasiveness ("one of the leading X"), attempting to impress me with things I don't care about or am likely to consider negative ("a Fortune 500 company," "one of the largest Visual Basic code bases in the industry"), signs of buzzword bingo or technical incompetence ("must have significant experience in PERL, Python, PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Java, ASP, C#, ColdFusion", "must have 10+ years of experience with Windows XP"), signs that the accounting department and glossy magazines are choosing technologies (any mention of ColdFusion or Dreamweaver).<p>Yeah, the latter list is much longer. It's a lot easier to do things wrong than to do them right. <p>
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11,280 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-10T14:47:24 | null | Last semester I had a professor who banned changing answers once you fill it in on the scantron. That means no erasers. He gave a similar line of reasoning as your experience. | null | null | 11,253 | 11,189 | null | null | null | null |
11,281 | story | zaidf | 2007-04-10T14:48:30 | Social Networking User Behavior Study | null | http://www.iprospect.com/about/researchstudy_2007_socialnetworkingbehavior.htm | 1 | null | 11,281 | 0 | null | null | null |
11,282 | story | danw | 2007-04-10T14:54:39 | The Attention Economy: The Natural Economy of the Net | null | http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue2_4/goldhaber/ | 3 | null | 11,282 | 1 | [
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11,283 | story | jkopelman | 2007-04-10T15:04:17 | Do you need to switch your pitch? | null | http://redeye.firstround.com/2007/04/do_you_need_to_.html | 14 | null | 11,283 | 2 | [
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11,284 | comment | dawie | 2007-04-10T15:09:18 | null | Business is Business. I would sell to anyone that made a decent offer and walk away from anyone that does't! | null | null | 11,208 | 11,208 | null | null | null | null |
11,285 | story | blader | 2007-04-10T15:13:40 | Vote up if you're refreshing your email once a minute today | null | 50 | null | 11,285 | 96 | [
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11,286 | comment | blader | 2007-04-10T15:14:28 | null | This is just for fun. Relax. | null | null | 11,285 | 11,285 | null | null | null | null |
11,287 | comment | danw | 2007-04-10T15:19:48 | null | Of course its constantly refreshing as always :)<p>The time zone difference is killing me, its only 8am over there! | null | null | 11,285 | 11,285 | null | null | null | null |
11,288 | comment | blader | 2007-04-10T15:20:53 | null | This is fantastic. I've always really loved Palm software and now I know that it is for a good reason. | null | null | 11,270 | 11,270 | null | null | null | null |
11,289 | story | monjurul | 2007-04-10T15:21:26 | Google Takes Partial Ownership Of Maxthon Browser | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/10/google-takes-partial-ownership-of-maxthon-browser/ | 1 | null | 11,289 | 1 | [
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11,290 | story | Readmore | 2007-04-10T15:21:27 | Facebook cover story from Fast Company - Hacker, Dropout, CEO | null | http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/115/open_features-hacker-dropout-ceo.html | 11 | null | 11,290 | 3 | [
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11,291 | comment | monjurul | 2007-04-10T15:24:34 | null | hakuna matata = my philosophy in life. | null | null | 11,285 | 11,285 | null | null | null | null |
11,292 | comment | scd | 2007-04-10T15:26:12 | null | Two comments:<p>1) I think you underestimate the importance of Firefox in Microsoft's decline in importance. It is Firefox that makes sure that all those Web-based apps aren't held hostage to Microsoft's implementation of web standards.<p>2) Whilst its all about the web it isn't all about the browser. Ajax-y web apps show the potential for ignoring platform specific APIs (such as Win32)--especially when you don't try to mimic platform specific behaviour (the big problem with Swing-based apps: stop pretending to be a native desktop app! Rejoice in being a x-platform web app!). But ajax inside Firefox/Safari isn't going to be enough for me to abandon all of my 'rich' Mac OS X apps: if you want me to put all of my brain in your web-based wiki or PIM, give the same 'richness' and sophistication of design that I can get with VoodooPad, DevonThink, and Curio. | null | null | 9,770 | 9,770 | null | null | null | null |
11,293 | comment | dfranke | 2007-04-10T15:27:16 | null | Considerably more often than that. Dreamhost is gonna be pissed with me. | null | null | 11,285 | 11,285 | null | null | null | null |
11,294 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-10T15:29:48 | null | Has anyone heard back yet? | null | null | 11,285 | 11,285 | null | [
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11,295 | comment | Mistone | 2007-04-10T15:30:35 | null | lets dream for a minute -
All things even, I would prefer Microsoft over Yahoo, but likely go with Google over both. Even better would be a slightly smaller, more focused player like SalesForce.com. It seems that Yahoo has a tendency to sap a startup of all it's mojo, while Google is fairly effective at buying a feature/product and quickly integrating it into their suite. <p>Microsoft has done well with some, and dropped the ball on others, but the embedded reach and business focus would be a huge value add to our business. | null | null | 11,208 | 11,208 | null | null | null | null |
11,296 | comment | professorguy | 2007-04-10T15:32:20 | null | Anyone who cares can have fast Internet access now.<p>Um, no.<p>I care to have fast access (I am a network administrator at a hospital so it'd be useful). But I cannot have it. Therefore your comment does not reflect reality.<p>I'm sure that's true in the city where you live, but come to Dalton, NH and tell me again how I'm supposed to get high speed access. DSL? Nope. Cable? Ha! Satellite? Not on my wooded hillside. Magic internet fairies? Oh, that must be what you're talking about!<p> | null | null | 9,770 | 9,770 | null | null | null | null |
11,297 | comment | rfrey | 2007-04-10T15:34:02 | null | The only thing that's worse than an armchair-quarterback WAG about something they were introduced to last week is being promised an armchair-quarterback WAG and getting "it's hard to say". | null | null | 11,278 | 11,278 | null | [
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11,298 | comment | jey | 2007-04-10T15:34:40 | null | Oops, thanks for the clarification. | null | null | 10,307 | 10,112 | null | null | null | null |
11,299 | story | wschroter | 2007-04-10T15:35:47 | What a Startup Office Really Looks Like | null | http://www.gobignetwork.com/wil/2007/4/10/what-a-startup-office-really-looks-like/10127/view.aspx | 6 | null | 11,299 | 1 | [
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