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Good for you. Raising money for a Prof. Services business is not easy (acquisition is the more common route) but know that investment firms that consolidate similar (or complementa…

> one of a founder's most valuable assets is a deep understanding of the customer's problem(s) and how to solve them. IMHO, it's the ONLY thing that matters - and like you, I too l…

Can I just say, kudos for being considerate, compassionate and inclusive?

Thanks - so the integrations could also be maintained by the partners. That makes a lot of sense.

I'm curious - given that they support hundreds of integrations across so many platforms, all with their own product roadmaps etc, how does Zapier actually develop and maintain thes…

> The "manipulative" implications the author is making could be applied towards print journalism just as accurately. Yes - and it does apply. Editorial control and fact-checking ar…

> podcasts being popular without Apple having to release an app for it. Apple was arguably the MOST important distributor of podcasts, given that they had millions of devices (incl…

I have some questions for you: * What do you mean by "efficient way"? Piano pedagogy is an old system that's been perfected over 200 years. What aspects of this system do you belie…

Which problem exactly are you hoping will go away by eliminating copyright? There was innovation and progress before copyright and there has been innovation and progress with copyr…

You've heard of Lina Khan and her paper on this topic? It was on the front-page of the Times last week.

* "B2B" is a catch-all term. There's indirect/MRO procurement and there's direct procurement. It's very hard to break into direct procurement without also owning the product/manufa…

Such a moving, poignant poem. Thanks for sharing.

> Reading a Harlequin novel? In general, a work in a visual medium - a painting, a comic book or a film - supplies ALL or most of the inputs. A book supplies only some of the input…

I'm a little conflicted about the authorship of "The Word". The chord progression is very Paul and the chorus is very John. > In the first three lines "word" is by far the most str…

> Too much Lennon is whiny, and too much McCartney is syrupy and cheesy. That's an overly simplistic - and I'd say wrong - characterization. On the early albums leading up to Rubbe…

I know Jefferson is complicated, but I encourage everyone to visit Monticello (his estate in Virginia) and see his library* . The man was obsessed with reading (and gardening). * O…

No CFO on the planet will ever approve of a statement prepared on anything other than Excel.

HN, you disappoint me. Not one of you made the "$53B in sales; still can't fix iTunes" comment. /why in God's name is iTunes still so bad?

$4.7B in iPad sales. That's 4.7 BILLION. At nearly 10% of their revenues, the going-going-gone tablet category still has some legs. Who would have thunk? /edited the numbers. I had…

> Are there any provable cases? Dr. Tony Cicoria. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/07/23/a-bolt-from-th...

The story you are referring to is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Cicoria It's a fascinating story.

I should correct my earlier statement: there appears to be a huge "used-phone" market in India. Purely my observation that there seemed to be a lot more older phones in circulation…

I don't live in India, but that's basically what I gathered from the massive market research I conducted with a few friends :) Then again, I believe the top-end Samsung and iPhones…

Some anecdata based on my travels in the subcontinent in the past few years: 1. While younger consumers know about Apple (and know that it is a "superior" brand), the native Apple …