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Just a friendly hint for resident Smarty pants young things: This is it . Competition in the field is (intellectually, conceptually, practically) ground level ho hum regardless of names/numbers. Be fearless. Think Uber for people. ('it' being the next google scale market).
Startup CEOs are getting pretty young these days, has your niece been hitting you up for a seed round? I'm thinking an App that is Uber for Lemonade Stands, people in the neighborhood just press the "I'm thirsty" button and one of her "mixologists" nearby makes a lemonade and brings it by. She doesn't make the lemonade or sell it, she is all about connecting thirsty people to industrious people who are putting their…
Not to be that snarky asshole, but this sort of comment doesn't belong on HN.
Hi everyone, I'm Joshua Hartman, the lead engineer for all of LinkedIn's consumer products. Thanks for all the passionate feedback here and we really appreciate it. I just wanted to say that we've been hard at work trying to improve the clarity of our products over the last year and this is something that we will continue to focus on going forward. Many of you have spoken of high volumes of emails. In 2015 LinkedIn b…
Glad to hear about the reductions in email.
Regarding your statement "We've been hard at work trying to improve the clarity of our products over the last year" — this just doesn’t ring true, as it seems to imply that lack of clarity has been an accidental shortcoming, when it is very plainly intentional confusion (hence why everyone is calling it "dark UX"). So when you are talking about trying to improve the clarity, do you mean to say that there is an internal struggle for the soul of linkedin? Engineering vs. suits, or something along those lines?
Hi everyone, I'm Joshua Hartman, the lead engineer for all of LinkedIn's consumer products. Thanks for all the passionate feedback here and we really appreciate it. I just wanted to say that we've been hard at work trying to improve the clarity of our products over the last year and this is something that we will continue to focus on going forward. Many of you have spoken of high volumes of emails. In 2015 LinkedIn b…
But look: at the end of the day, LinkedIn is awful. It's a thinly veiled spam marketing scheme. So the fact that it lost $10B of value seems bizarre only because LinkedIn already seemed worthless.
I have also been off of Facebook for a couple of years now. Not sure what, if any, social networking platform to adopt.
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They have some tricks on how things are placed on your personal page so you accidentally import your contacts. I've almost done so a few times.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something. Don't you have to give them your gmail password or some other Google auth? That doesn't seem easy to do accidentally.
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Probably not, because people don't ask. In 2008 when I was living in NYC, I asked and received 10-15% year over year decreases in rent (3 years). Long time NYers thought I was crazy to even ask. Incredulous I got it. And this was in Manhattan, doorman building, a few blocks from Lehman Bros. So yeah ask. And be prepared to move. If you aren't prepared to move, you're not ready to save.
Just curious, what do you mean, be prepared to move? Did you tell the landlord, "I will move if you don't give me a 10% decrease in rent"? I'm finding it hard to believe that in a market like NYC where the rents are sky high generally increasing, you could get such a discount. It also depends on the kind of property taxes prevalent in the states. e.g. in California, property taxes are set at the time of purchase, whi…
A lot of people hating on LNKD here, but this isn't really company-specific. This is a macro shift. LNKD being down by 40% by only guiding down 8% below estimates is a big warning of how the market is about to treat all bloated growth stocks. In 2013, if they reported the same results, the stock would have been flat or slightly down. It's a major shift in investor sentiment. Bubble bursts always start in the public m…
that won't happen. During the 2008 big burst everywhere in USA was felling apart but in SF real-estate was just down 5%-10%.
SF can't expand easily since it's water 3/4 all around. Demand still high and supply very low.
That won't change dramatically, with or without a collapse in the public market.
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Just curious - why did you give them your contacts? I've been on it for years and have never uploaded a single contact. I've just manually connected with people I know. Whenever a service asks for my contacts, I know it's because they want to spam them.
I tried the android app, bam - all my contacts are now in "do you know", I thought it would be "click to upload contacts". mistake!