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dforeman
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Comment #3132586
As someone with consumer electronics experience and a 94-year-old grandmother, I actually think #4 is brilliant. She will never understand how to maneuver to email on her iPad, and…
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Comment #3132519
I think it's interesting how the Yelp model might work for business services, but breaks down for service providers. We're not doing lawyers, but I think lawyers are a good example…
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Comment #3010624
I think that question was included ironically- I.e., he's only been asked a handful of times. His sample size reflects the dearth of "learning how to program to build a viable weba…
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Comment #2857179
The treasury's argument is fatally flawed. "The baseline in which discretionary spending grows with nominal GDP is substantially higher because CBO assumes that nominal GDP grows b…
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Comment #2843215
I'm not proud to say I know someone who has made tens of millions of dollars providing loans to contractors so they can drive a rig. The drivers rarely know what truly terrible ter…
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Comment #2715869
My guess how a fail like this happens- Executive team has an investor relations (PR) firm on retainer. IR firm sees "Open Letter" as a PR crisis, pulls page from crisis management …
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Comment #2534797
I just don't think Skype is a 8.5 billion dollar feature, especially any MS implementation. It's not like Skype was a closed platform- they have an API and their policy is to let t…