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Not to be overly harsh, but the site doesn't really give the impression of credibility. It doesn't help that there's no verifiable background information (human names, bios, etc.) for any of the authors.

I'm pretty familiar with the VC world (having raised money, and from the angel/micro-vc side due to having friends in funds, and considered doing a fund myself), and I feel comfortable evaluating the book based on the content, but your actual readers won't -- they'll figure out if you're trustworthy and credible based on presentation, references, and overall plausibility. If you have a background in VC (associate? you seem to be Australian, so that doesn't seem as likely), or have raised VC multiple times, that would be good to disclose.

The actual content is ok. Not as good as the Venture Hacks book or other "standard" startup resources for the general advice -- much of which is available free online, and from highly credible primary sources (i.e. VCs who blog, successful entrepreneurs, etc.). The level of content is maybe a good blog post or two (if you tighten it up, and use examples -- you could maybe do 5), but it's not a $2 e-book.

The "financial modeling for startups" content seems a lot stronger -- if you included editable google docs and/or excel templates, combined with resources on how to do both bottom up and top down analysis (and USE THE STANDARD TERMS OF ART), it could be useful. Maybe that could be a $2 package, if you really want to sell something.
Which is not really a problem with iPads, nor with kids - it's a problem with education.
The entire content is 5 pages.
This is what you say:

"
This is not your run of the mill E-book – this is content that puts you in the mind of the VCs, allowing you to:

Dominate Pitches
Understand their perspective
Speech their language
Get into incumbators
"
(all spelling mistakes left as-it)

In addition, you are very strongly encouraging people to pay for it and making them feel guilty if they don't.

This is what I got:
a 2.5-page PDF document that contains a really basic check-list of what investors are looking for in a startup - the sort of thing you'll find on a countless number of blog posts about raising funding.

Is this a joke?
There are petabytes of storage media rolling off the assembly lines as you are reading this; are they relevant? Also, the estimate will doubled in several months.
I think, the reason to do it is something noble which is difficult to express - its part empathy for people who don't have these riches who may or may not be one's friends, and part a sense of continuity to self, that I am the same person, that I was yesterday - I still love the hard work, and would have done it irrespective of the outcome.

So I don't completely agree, that its to keep your non-millionaire friends. I think, people's tastes change with time and social standing. For example, if you are on Facebook, tell me how difficult it is to really like a joke of a school friend, who has gone in a different direction in life and perhaps gets 15% of your salary.
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By itself that's meaningless.

What the the statistical chances that a particular group of students with those backgrounds would turn out to yield a performance at the 89th percentile? I've no idea, but say it's 1% for the sake of argument. That would mean that 1% of similar classes with averagely competent teachers would achieve that score, all other things being equal. That's many thousands of classes at the national level.

It's like the argument made in a UK court not long ago that someone must be guilty because the chances of the evidence being a coincidence were millions to one. Of course in a population of millions such a coincidence becomes almost inevitable.

I've no idea if this teacher was good or bad, but that's something that should be determined by expert, informed evaluation not mindless statistical witch hunt.
Why should I buy Win7 when it won't even play animated gifs out of the box?
The default photo viewer on Windows 7 does not play animated gifs, even though this feature was present 10 years ago in WinXP and arguably animated gifs are in even wider usage now.

They claim they didn't add support because "the GIF format is not widely used for photos"[1]. But it is very obvious they did this to promote the usage of IE. I wouldn't be surprised if they purposely removed already written code just to cripple the Windows Photo Viewer.

I would like to shame Microsoft engineers who frequent HN into fixing this.

[1] http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprogeneral/thread/b0e84027-9753-46cb-94b8-b099c0a60e1d
Some other dynamic languages that have a language specification:

* Perl6 - http://perl6.org/specification/

* Io - https://github.com/jeremytregunna/IoSpec
he's on the Board of Berkshire and is often thought as future Buffett replacement as CEO.
Is this me, or the comma in the submission title is in a weird place? I just can't parse it. English is not my first language though.
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>Either they believe in paying a bigger share or they don't.

First, They believe in rules to enforce everyone paying a bigger share, and are lobbying to bring that about. There's nothing inconsistent in doing that whilst not individually making a bigger voluntary contribution. One might think that one's efforts are far better spent lobbying for a general rule then individually donating.

Second, people like Buffett have commitments to philantropy that I think would easily count as making a bigger contribution.
100% agree. I'm just sick of schools spending £1000s on plasma TVs, etc, and then not having enough left in the budget for textbooks (true story).
Yeah sorry, but I would never trust Facebook with anything private. One example: I used lists for years, selectively shared data with different people. One day Facebook gets Google+ envy and now the names of the lists I shared with is public. Imagine all the people with lists labelled "hot girls" or similar? An absolute violation of privacy.

There was the recent bug that allowed viewing of personal photos via the report dialog. There have been problems with application tokens allowing data to be compromised. And Facebook has a history of resetting privacy settings when it suits them.

How about when smart lists came out? I already had a Family list, so I followed the instructions and merged it with the new smart list. Then I found out that adding people to that smart list sent them a request to confirm family relationship. So I had to create a new list (I appended a dash) and move everyone to that. The thousands of posts I'd tagged hiding or showing family were now visible or hidden incorrectly, and I just about killed my account in despair.

If you're smart enough to work at Facebook, you should be smart enough not to trust your data to that company.

Sorry for ranting. I'm just incredulous at the whole idea.
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This thread reminds me of two lessons that I'm thankful I've learned young:

1. Processes exist for a reason. They're often annoying and sometimes overkill and unnecessary, but they're often there as a result of a past problem.

2. The whole top thread about communicating and literally ignoring people reminds me of my roommate who bragged that he was a good leader, meanwhile telling me that he would simply ignore his teammates because they annoy him. This is why "geeks" get the stereotype that they can't interact with people and it's why programmers with business and communication skills are so valuable and sought after.
Better value than a Lexus if you're a "driver" anyway.
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How is this relevant to the article?

It describes a teacher that is selling lesson plans to other teachers, so they can use proven plans. The creating teachers can invest more time into the creation as they will earn some additional money by selling it.

You describe teachers selling their teaching to students beside the normal teaching activities. Totally different thing, isn't it?
Is that a real deal-breaker for you? I would find rather worse problems with W7 (and this is a pretty decent OS)

You don't have to buy it (unless you have to ;)). I find various Linuxes fairly usable nowadays. Or reach deep into your pocket and buy a Mac.
Replace it with "and"
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It's meant to be read as "25 petabytes bringing storage firm _and_ court case to the brink of collapse", I believe.
Haha, yeah. That happened to me.
Yeah -- nice/hot cars are relatively common in Silicon Valley, just not in SF. (like, color alone isn't enough to identify Roadsters in the parking lot, and the same is almost true of F430s. I've never seen a 911 which wasn't the top of the line Turbo).
I always felt that companies were in a very unfortunate position. Almost everybody I now who was smart went to graduate school. How does one higher in that kind of environment? It always seemed companies received mediocrity; at best.
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Yeah. They are for people that hate driving, I think.

I've been looking for a used Elise for a while.
Reminds me of http://www.viglink.com

Basically Referly and Viglink add their affiliate codes to links for applicable ecommerce sites, collect commissions and pay link publishers (sharers and bloggers) a cut.

I'd prefer to just run a plugin on my machine and circumvent both of them by taking a commission on the purchases I make through any of those merchants as paid out by the plugin creator. Would end up like a custom linkification on ecommerce links https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/linkification...

In all cases I wonder what TOS dictates for applicable sites. I think with Amazon they don't allow manipulation of urls containing affiliate codes already implanted.

add: if there is an idea I'd like to see, it'd be some sort of automatic coupon code insertion at the end of a checkout on any number of sites. Perhaps a way for those codes to then be verified to have worked. If the system worked, that would arguably distribute benefits rather than concentrate them as with Viglink and Referly.

Coupon codes are a popular and useful segment but as yet unreliable and unconsolidated.
Its a common practice in American English to use a comma in place of 'and' in newspaper headlines. It is sometimes called 'the Headline Comma', and he justification seems to be to save space.

There's a Metafilter thread about it here: http://ask.metafilter.com/20720/Headline-Question

English is my first language and I find it hard to parse too, but its not commonly used where I live (UK).

EDIT: Clarified that use is normally restricted to headlines
That's really intuitive and simple. Love it... This for small things like pictures and documents, ge.tt for big things.
Ahhh, the only driving games I really enjoyed in my "youth" was Carmageddon and Car Wars.

If they add kids among the pedestrians and a non-Windows version, I'll invest. :-)
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Is it just me, or is there nowhere on that page actually linking to the kickstarter project?
The low-key thing doesn't fool anyone, though. Everyone knows where everyone really stands moneywise.

I say this as a guy who has friends who have gone on to be many, many times more financially successful than I'll ever be. In a couple of cases almost literally overnight. I want them to enjoy the hell out of their money. I would think it was kind of creepy if they didn't. Potentially even offensive.
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The first error is the assumption that creation of jobs is somehow desirable. Personally I have the goal of not needing a job anymore, for example by automating everything. I think the whole economy is working towards that goal in the end.

Likewise "more consumption" is not a goal in itself. Wellbeing of people is a goal, consumption might be a way to achieve it. But because you should be careful what you measure, trying to increase consumption is probably bound for disaster.

The problem is not creating more jobs, it is distribution of wellbeing.
I've also noticed this. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stainlessgames/carmagedd...
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Ooops! You're correct but it's too late for me to edit the post now. Maybe Ariely has some explanation why I can't get his title right.
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Here's my question:

Say it turns out that in a year or two Facebook settles onto a good solid advertising system that makes sense to advertisers. Revenues to a sustainable $5b and keeps up a nice sweet margin of 25%-30%. Expected growth is 10% for the next few years as advertisers figure out how to use it (in my opinion this was the driver of Google's growth post IPO). That's a genuine whale. As a startup story it's massive economic success in a short period of time. Even this (hypothetical) post IPO year or two seem (to me) like a success story.

But.. investors (at the present stage) are betting (according to the price) on much better results than that. 5X-10X better at least to call the investment good.

I'm not saying this will happen (I dunno). I'm asking what if*. Basically the company which didn't exist a few years ago is now a huge (& good) company. Easily worth $20bn, maybe more. But investors are losing money. How bad is that? Does the company fall apart. Is the danger bad enough for managers risk everything over & over to avoid it?

^ I'm going on media reports of Mrkt Cap/Rev/Profit of $100bn/$3.7b/$1b
I have the same approach, however that's the reason for why I haven't written a single line of code for iOS. Getting started with it is just too much work, and I'm not sure if it's worth it, compared to Android for which I am already familiar with the language and IDE and getting a Hello World on my own phone took only a couple of minutes.

I wouldn't recommend iOS apps written in Ruby either, but the learning curve is too great for Obj-C. Not only do you have to learn a complicated API, but you also have to learn a new language, that's C with features from Smalltalk, and then get familiar with a new IDE. For beginners wanting to get shit done, without much time on their hands, that can be death by a thousand cuts.
This is awesome! I love it!

I know it's designed for mobiles, but it works well if you move your browser to a very small size. The only issue I'm having is that the scrollbars aren't quite working - see here: http://twitpic.com/9mbcwh
s/wipe/encrypt/, or will they be able to force you to give up the key?
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No I'm trying to understand how small businesses work. I seriously have no idea - so I am starting at the beginning by covering their content while also trying to sell what I research.

The ebook was always free - now it is very clear that it is.

Also Thank you very much!
I found keeping a timesheet helped me there. When it came to "it is getting to the point where X is not going to be ready on time, and I've got personal things on this week so I really can't work significant overtime", and the question came back "well, what have you been doing for the last week", I could give them a full list of "2 hours helping X with Y", "an hour doing Z", "four hours on that high priority fix client C that no one else was willing to touch" and so forth. Don't play the blame game and point out that person X was being thick on an occasion or otherwise dwell on who is interrupting your key work, just lay it out as matter-of-fact as you can: "This is where my time is being used".

Make damn sure though that people understand a short interruption "for a quick meeting" when you are at the time "powering through" stuff sometimes kills as much as a full hour of development time if you are working on something complex as it can completely break your train of thought (especially if you are tired due to recent overtime!), or worse if you are coordinating with other people and/or are working on something timing sensitive (so the interruption might mean a key coordination point is delayed).

If you can show what the demands on your time are, a good manager will try rearrange things so that you are interrupted less often. Sometimes simply merging those small interruptions into a scheduled period or two each day is enough to make all the difference to your mid/long term work: problems that didn't really need you magically go away (as the person who was going to interrupt you does that 30 seconds of extra thinking/research that was needed to give them the clue) and the others "interrupt" you a few times a day rather than several times over an hours or two.
Took me a while to comprehend the meaning.
The point of the ebook was to try and present the perspective of VCs very simply and to the point through some research. This was done through a checklist type deal, where the content was free (and an option to pay) - as I say in another reply this is so I can try to understand this type of business.

I am from an Accounting background just btw.

Thank you very much for your feedback - its all part of the learning process. I have made changes and will definitely try to incorporate this in the future.
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Why would Microsoft hold out? Is SPDY technologically inferior in some way? Does it give Google some competetive advantage? Does not supporting it give Microsoft some competetive advantage? Is there a fourth reason that I'm missing?
No, I attract hard working, no nonsense people who take joy in getting things done with least amount of friction, and who don't need masseuse to write code.
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Value creation is bullshit. You create job when
a. you need a service
b. you can't do it with the resource you have
c. you can't automate with a machine
d. you can afford hiring someone
d. the income you generate can support it

Value does not exists per se.

You are so simplicistic here, guys, when you talk about rich and poor.

I know you are not so young, but sometimes it seems you are a group of small kids talking about life.
As long as offering counter offers provokes a mixed feelings (as shown in this very HN thread) it is a valid strategy to try in order to keep employee until they find/train a replacement.
My email adress at my university contains the full name. But because I have 3 first names, all are included, which brings the total adress to 41 characters. I hate it.
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Can you explain what's the point of buying a bike for 20000 or jeans for 1200 dollars if they are virtually indistinguishable from products costing a tenth of that?
I head the online strategy and development for a leading media company in Pakistan. Some years back we were approached by IBM for their portal solutions. Our competitors were already using IBM portal solutions at the time and were in a leading position which gave others a compelling reason to switch over. We didn't end up switching over but if we had, it's likely the third major player in the market would also have capitulated to keep up. IBM would have been in a good consulting position either way even if they got 2 out of 3.

It's very likely that the this investment and the IBM investment have a link. It certainly makes sense from a strategic point of view and would benefit everyone involved.
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$15 for a copy of the game has to be worth it.
And I'm sure it was just a coincidence a McLaren dealership just opened up in Palo Alto.
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If you only you could talk to them?

Seriously, most of these problems are due to lack of communication, set up a ticketing system, teach people how to use it.