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The man's multiple degrees are meaningless without knowing where they're from. We live in a world where literally anyone can enroll in the University of Phoenix. In fact, I've hear…

Exactly. Put another way: Odds of getting sued: 1% Max downside if he gets sued: What? 50k before he declares bankruptcy? Ok, so risk adjusted cost of the "just fucking sue me" app…

AOL's new "business model" is one Google algo change away from going poof. Clearly after Panda, Google is out to get rid of business models like this. Unfortunately they kind of su…

I don't get the part about arbitrage of local ad inventory that's no longer available. Is he saying it's no longer available because all the Groupon competitors buying up the inven…

We don't blame soldiers, while we do blame teachers, because almost everyone has personal experience dealing with lazy, bad teachers as a student. Many people also have direct expe…

No.

It's really starting to look like Google has jumped the shark with making Larry CEO. Google has serious strategic problems going forward, and it seems the best Larry can do is make…

Arguably. But, good venture capitalists give you not only huge sums of money that you wouldn't otherwise be able to pool, but also advice and access to their professional network. …

You're missing marketing, sales and business development in your analysis. Groupon isn't successful because of its programming prowess. It's successful because of its sales, market…

My attitude puzzles you because you're assuming that 90% of the risk comes before the MVP. Absolutely, most startups fail because they build something that people don't want. That …

"Software is very expensive to build." Not necessarily. Offshore outsourcing of programming is quite cheap. The question is whether your MVP is so complex it warrants a $100/hour l…

I don't understand why all those product and marketing people don't form programmerless teams and cheaply outsource their initial programming needs. This won't work for immensely c…