Great points, thank you.
Sometimes I wonder if "Make something people want" could be even better if it were "Make something you and other people want".
Exactly. $1.7M premoney valuation and a chance to get advice from PG and others who have helped 6 unicorns come about and, per @sama, 22 others who can get there is pretty darn good, IMO.
A third possibility is investors are lemmings and are too stupid to understand the unique insight you have into a big market. As an investor who thought Instacart, Uber and BufferBox were really stupid ideas and missed…
Good post Brandon. imjk - Not sure Brandon chose the title. Usually the editors do that.
This is basically what Warren Buffett does w/r/t Berkshire's portfolio cos. Though he invests less in frothy times and more in times of pessimism. But he's bottoms up too.
Great and the back of this hoodie should have the back of the unicorn, with a rainbow coming out of the derriere.
Great headlines for TMZ crowd.
Not for everyone. Look at Yelp and Wikipedia.
That's a good idea. Hope Larry considers it.
None of which are being used to deliver quality news much note concisely at low cost.
Quora and Yelp are for profit.
Cool idea worth testing.
Yeah, crazy right? Folks already contributing hundreds of hours for free for some time. I can't imagine someone doing free work and writing, ranking restaurant reviews, editing, citing, writing pieces of encyclopedia…
Exactly.
Cool stuff. Best of luck to you.
Sounds like you haven't read the quick summary on Infobitt just yet. http://infobitt.com/category/about-infobitt/b/5762
Yes. Also, techmeme.
Google News' strength is ranking, not summarizing facts from different sources so you can avoid reading all the top 5 or 20 articles about a story. And, philosophically, do you HN folks really want to rely on the MSM to…
Yes. The design is far from perfect. This is just a beta version. For me, it's already a pretty good way to catch up on the main news fast. I can pick one bitt and learn some key facts and move on. Fast, easy, good…
Google News rankings are good and getting better. Issue is these other news aggregators just link you to articles that may be the best individual source. And you have to waste time reading an article instead of just…
Some readers of The Information, The Wall Street Journal, Economist, Financial Times, Bloomberg terminal owners, The New York Times. And you can have conferences like TechCrunch.
Are you at 1000 articles? How's your burn rate?
The beatings will continue until Wikinews makes something people want
Great points, thank you.
Sometimes I wonder if "Make something people want" could be even better if it were "Make something you and other people want".
Exactly. $1.7M premoney valuation and a chance to get advice from PG and others who have helped 6 unicorns come about and, per @sama, 22 others who can get there is pretty darn good, IMO.
A third possibility is investors are lemmings and are too stupid to understand the unique insight you have into a big market. As an investor who thought Instacart, Uber and BufferBox were really stupid ideas and missed…
Good post Brandon. imjk - Not sure Brandon chose the title. Usually the editors do that.
This is basically what Warren Buffett does w/r/t Berkshire's portfolio cos. Though he invests less in frothy times and more in times of pessimism. But he's bottoms up too.
Great and the back of this hoodie should have the back of the unicorn, with a rainbow coming out of the derriere.
Great headlines for TMZ crowd.
Not for everyone. Look at Yelp and Wikipedia.
That's a good idea. Hope Larry considers it.
None of which are being used to deliver quality news much note concisely at low cost.
Quora and Yelp are for profit.
Cool idea worth testing.
Yeah, crazy right? Folks already contributing hundreds of hours for free for some time. I can't imagine someone doing free work and writing, ranking restaurant reviews, editing, citing, writing pieces of encyclopedia…
Exactly.
Cool stuff. Best of luck to you.
Sounds like you haven't read the quick summary on Infobitt just yet. http://infobitt.com/category/about-infobitt/b/5762
Yes. Also, techmeme.
Google News' strength is ranking, not summarizing facts from different sources so you can avoid reading all the top 5 or 20 articles about a story. And, philosophically, do you HN folks really want to rely on the MSM to…
Yes. The design is far from perfect. This is just a beta version. For me, it's already a pretty good way to catch up on the main news fast. I can pick one bitt and learn some key facts and move on. Fast, easy, good…
Google News rankings are good and getting better. Issue is these other news aggregators just link you to articles that may be the best individual source. And you have to waste time reading an article instead of just…
Some readers of The Information, The Wall Street Journal, Economist, Financial Times, Bloomberg terminal owners, The New York Times. And you can have conferences like TechCrunch.
Are you at 1000 articles? How's your burn rate?
The beatings will continue until Wikinews makes something people want
Exactly.