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albert — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:37:26 -0000

More forgiving - yes, I very much hope for that to be the case.

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julien51 — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:35:30 -0000

Maybe is solution also comes from being more forgetful as a community. I said and did stupid things. We all did and we will all do. We just have to learn to acknowledge them and make them part of our past. I don't want a society where people's mistakes can be hidden, I don't want either a society where there is no 2nd chance.

I made mistakes, I apologized for them and that made me what I am today, both 'smarter' (because I won't make these again) and 'humbler' (because I know I was dumb enough to make them).

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richardnash — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:50:45 -0000

The pity of the panel is that it was more admonition than solution.
(Also true of Danah's talk I think...)

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Re: http://continuations.com/post/460929653

albert — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:50:37 -0000

The panel looks interesting. Any good insights from it? I have read danah's talk and am still digesting.

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richardnash — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:17:28 -0000

My friend Annelee Newitz was on a panel on this topic at SXSW: My Life, Take Two: The Right to Delete http://my.sxsw.com/e/607 Danah Boyd's talk was also in the universe of this sorta thing.

Annelee told me there was a guy there who came up to her afterwards talking about a service whereby you effectively give them power of attorney over your passwords: when you die, they give the Facebook to the next-of-kin, and delete the porn service passwords.

Re: Hacking Textbooks - We Need It!

albert — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:48:51 -0000

That is one of many problems -- funny quote!

Re: Hacking Textbooks - We Need It!

cordor91 — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:44:12 -0000

I saw this interesting tweet yesterday from @bencasnocha

Overheard: "The problem in education is that we have educators running the school systems. Pilots are not CEOs of the airline companies"

Re: http://continuations.com/post/460929653

derrinyet — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:38:31 -0000

Well, that's just an example of bad manners publicly manifested but unpunished. : P

We all slip up when we're riled up emotionally - it's only human - and if we become understanding of that, then hopefully we'll be more tolerant of minor youthful outbursts too.

Re: http://continuations.com/post/460929653

albert — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:32:05 -0000

That's the alternative that I am personally rooting for, but not with respect to this example because I believe in good manners.

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derrinyet — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:26:36 -0000

This is the skeptical view - my hope is that the stupid things we say simply won't matter as much in 10 years, by virtue of everyone having said something stupid.

I think to some degree that's where we're heading. VP Cheney told Sen. Leahy to "fuck [him]self" on the floor of the Senate and barely anyone batted an eyelash...

Re: http://continuations.com/post/460929653

albert — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:50:35 -0000

Interesting. There will definitely be an "underground" as you call it of people going off the net for at least some or maybe all their activities. Identity management as a consumer service as opposed to the existing "identity protection" schemes is an interesting opportunity.

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gbattle — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:05:27 -0000

I talk about that same issue briefly here: http://lfto.tk/5jml4F

This is a huge opportunity. Identity management will become as big as credit.

Re: Culture Change in Startups

paramendra — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:23:07 -0000

Good point.

Re: The Sui Generis Startup

albert — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:02:58 -0000

That I agree with completely.

Re: The Sui Generis Startup

Greg4 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:31:02 -0000

You're totally right about LoudCloud - it's not directly applicable to most startups. But I think Horowitz's general point was a good one. While the lean startup principles are extremely valuable, let's not make a fetish of them. Sometimes you don't win exclusively because you're leaner or more clever; instead, you end up in a war of attrition. How productive you are in the daily grind makes a huge difference in who wins those battles, but having a lot of dry powder doesn't hurt either.

Re: The Sui Generis Startup

hymanroth — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:30:42 -0000

I'm sure that made Brad smile...

Re: The Sui Generis Startup

albert — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:16:12 -0000

You certainly did! I am claiming the indepedent innovation defense :-)

Re: The Sui Generis Startup

christmasgorilla — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:10:12 -0000

Albert, I totally beat you to this post :)

http://christmasgorilla.com/post/455425713/what...

Re: Winner Take All and Early Stage Valuations

albert — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:10:19 -0000

For the competitive deals there is definitely a sense that the round size and valuation are moving in tandem. Still we tend to run some numbers in the background where we compare valuations based on metrics such as active users.

Re: Winner Take All and Early Stage Valuations

dlifson — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:33:47 -0000

So is there any basis for computing the actual valuations pre-revenue? It seems its simply a matter of how competitive the round is and how much equity the founders are willing to give up vs. the amount of money they feel they need to raise. Like, if I feel I need $2-4M, I'll take $4M if I can get an $8M pre-, but "settle" for $2M if it's a $4M pre-.

Re: Winner Take All and Early Stage Valuations

albert — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:22:21 -0000

Now now now - but you have got a point ...

Re: Winner Take All and Early Stage Valuations

emilsotirov — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:17:40 -0000

Add to this the meager historic performance for the venture industry as whole (average)... and the whole investing thing starts to look like a painfully slow, extremely complex form of gambling...

Re: Winner Take All and Early Stage Valuations

albert — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:54:47 -0000

Agree - I believe that the web makes this increasingly true for B2B also.

Re: Winner Take All and Early Stage Valuations

willwhutson — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:59:02 -0000

i think this is a fair statement even within the B2B product space on the web ...

Re: http://continuations.com/post/450509331

albert — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:15:37 -0000

Completely agree that we owe Apple a huge debt for cracking open the mobile market. Certainly beats being beholden to carriers. And of course they get to choose what they put in their store -- but I don't have to like that! Mobile Safari has no access to a bunch of the APIs that native apps have access to.