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Right on. It's the failure to build in the vacuum that is most upsetting to me. There is so much value in Twitter users' content that could be used in new and interesting ways. How…

This is great advice - the socratic method is really key. It also helps to drill into the concrete details (aka facts) rather than staying at a higher subjective level. I've also f…

Big reason we have a broker is time savings - just have them handle it and get back to work. It took me under an hour to get set up with a broker. It took me longer than that to fi…

The main driver of Microsoft's net income growth over the last few years has been all enterprise software (Windows Server, SQL Server, Sharepoint). Their CRM (Dynamics) is the #2 p…

Mountain View, CA Contastic (getContastic.com) is an IDG-Accel/Lightspeed funded company building a recommendation engine that uses ML/NLP to automate sales (customers include Splu…

An interesting outcome of the case discussion for this was that many king believed they needed to maintain control to be rich. This leads us to believe it's potentially a set of de…

My advice has always been if you're not willing to commit 3 years full time to coding don't do it. It just takes that long to be useful on a team. Instead, focus on whatever area y…

I have no idea why they don't just move the control buttons to the bottom of the screen. The real estate is great - they just need to break the paradigm of sticking the most import…

1 - build an online portfolio of work (if you don't have one do personal/free projects to build it. 2 - go on elance/odesk to find some paying clients (pay is low, but easy to find…

http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Michael-Lewis/dp/0393244660 is a great high level overview on this whole issue (including brad katsuyama).

Noone should sell to everyone :)

The cashflow amazing. A recurring license with a large enterprise means thousands of per-seat fees rolling in on a consistent basis. And larger enterprises are less likely to churn…

Great idea - I just looked this up - NASDAQ has a nice list in CSV format along with market cap: http://www.nasdaq.com/screening/company-list.aspx

I'd be wary to think they are converging. The enterprise sales cycle is getting shorter and more user driven (more folks can charge a per-user individual fee as opposed to site lic…

I wonder what the all up cost of getting someone an H1B visa is currently? Is this an annoying bureaucratic hurtle or a real barrier to talent entering the US? My perception is tha…

A good lesson that all emails are potentially public :)

I went through this program's 2013 batch. Working directly with the smart folks at Lightspeed accelerated our learning process. Weekly meetings with the partners forced us to make …

This is a real wakeup call - raise bigger seed rounds to last until you're a breakout success.

I wonder if this means more Harvard students are seeking careers as devs or that Harvard students in other disciplines are looking to add programming to their repertoire?