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I really enjoyed your Reddit AMA http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/azgs6/iama_guy_who_sol...
Ha. Not me, you can tell by the top section. He claims to be happy.
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Ha. Not me, you can tell by the top section. He claims to be happy.
oops sorry. I did see your comment on that thread and didn't check the username of the OP. There are quite a few similarities between that guy's story and you, so I made an unverified assumption.
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I'm cautiously optimistic. Bigger, though, is just a side effect of playing a game well, not a goal I really go after for it's own sake. Pick a name out of your Rolodex, any name: I wouldn't trade my life for his for all the tea in China.
Let me rephrase. Something wider in possibility. When I started delicious, I had no idea that it would someday be a company. Instead it was a thing I wanted to make. But it turned out to be very pregnant with possibility. I'd like to see you do something that is similarly wide. Does that make any sense?
I'm sitting at home at 3 PM on a Tuesday writing patches to the OSS project that spun out of the day job that spun out of the weeklong project which was supposed to, someday, buy me a video game. We never know what the future holds, right?
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oops sorry. I did see your comment on that thread and didn't check the username of the OP. There are quite a few similarities between that guy's story and you, so I made an unverified assumption.
You weren't the only one. I think I wrote him to ask if he had any rich guy tips. I don't think I got any good ones.
What maximum % of your net worth would you allocate to angel investments?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
upshot: if he does well, in a couple years his typical investment size will be $20-$50K. Investment size is a proportion of bank.
So far I'm surprised that a) nobody has really asked about exits or returns b) people that have asked questions about their own situations have been incredibly vague c) no questions about background or current work or d) no questions about delicious's creation, founding, and later sale.
Would you ever fund a person you believed in for that kind of exploratory work?
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You weren't the only one. I think I wrote him to ask if he had any rich guy tips. I don't think I got any good ones.
On topic. I _really_ want to do this.[1] Whats your opinion? Sent a proposal to kickstarter yesterday, waiting for reply. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1351584
A revolution in education is imminent. Better measurement, statistics, and analytics in the real world, better connectivity in the offline world.
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On topic. I _really_ want to do this.[1] Whats your opinion? Sent a proposal to kickstarter yesterday, waiting for reply. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1351584
Sounds like an interesting idea. A revolution in education is imminent. Better measurement, statistics, and analytics in the real world, better connectivity in the offline world.
I heard you built one website a month, hunting for the right idea, until delicious clicked. Would you ever fund a person you believed in for that kind of exploratory work?
However, I never really had the idea of building businesses, just interesting things. I wanted to get attention (I got myself invited to Foo Camp before I did delicious, for example) from folks outside my industry, as I worked at an investment bank.
I still build some small things here and there. I find it much more difficult to program now, though.