"Fantastically put, thank you for this post, it also matches my -much shorter- experience. I call early VC a strictly promise-based investment vs a fact-based investment which is (or supposed to be) PE and the stock market. The earlier you understand this, the less time you waste wandering around with people who don't."
- George Tziralis
"Fantastically put, thank you for this post, it also matches my -much shorter- experience. I call early VC a strictly promise-based investment vs a fact-based investment which is (or supposed to be) PE and the stock market. The earlier you understand this, the less time you waste wandering around with people who don't."
- George Tziralis
"First, Prof thank you for posting this and taking this discussion public, I can think of various reasons why such a move is a bold yet much needed one. A few years ago I had the opportunity to teach a post graduate course at NTUA, Greece. I requested all students to create a profile in the course's blog and publish all their assignments there. There was still cheating, but things were improving over the weeks without any major intervention of mine.Let's face it, cheating is a common practice, not only within universities but pretty much everywhere out there as well. I personally do not believe in punishments but in providing the right incentives, and social proof seems to be one of the few that actually works as you correctly pointed out."
- George Tziralis
"First, Prof thank you for posting this and taking this discussion public, I can think of various reasons why such a move is a bold yet much needed one. A few years ago I had the opportunity to teach a post graduate course at NTUA, Greece. I requested all students to create a profile in the course's blog and publish all their assignments there. There was still cheating, but things were improving over the weeks without any major intervention of mine.Let's face it, cheating is a common practice, not only within universities but pretty much everywhere out there as well. I personally do not believe in punishments but in providing the right incentives, and social proof seems to be one of the few that actually works as you correctly pointed out."
- George Tziralis
"First, Prof thank you for posting this and taking this discussion public, I can think of various reasons why such a move is a bold yet much needed one. A few years ago I had the opportunity to teach a post graduate course at NTUA, Greece. I requested all students to create a profile in the course's blog and publish all their assignments there. There was still cheating, but things were improving over the weeks without any major intervention of mine.Let's face it, cheating is a common practice, not only within universities but pretty much everywhere out there as well. I personally do not believe in punishments but in providing the right incentives, and social proof seems to be one of the few that actually works as you correctly pointed out."
- George Tziralis
"Fred, is there a way to secure other investor rights (apart from equity / monetary returns) with a convertible note? My understanding is that there is not, or at least it is not typical at all, and that's another characteristic of convertible loans with is pros and cons as an option."
- George Tziralis
"Fred, is there a way to secure other investor rights (apart from equity / monetary returns) with a convertible note? My understanding is that there is not, or at least it is not typical at all, and that's another characteristic of convertible loans with is pros and cons as an option."
- George Tziralis
Roll call...this can be great if we all participate. Add yourself to this shared map. I created a placemark on the 2 major intersections near where I live.
- Mark Krynsky
Mo, I'm a newb to the shared maps stuff, but I turned on collaboration and allowed anyone to edit the map. There should be an edit button and then you can add a placemark.
- Mark Krynsky
Robert bought me a new house in the northern suburbs.
- Andrew Trinh
@Bec...nice. You are the first brave female on here.
- Mark Krynsky
Cool idea, Mark! I was thinking something like this would be fun the other day. Duly added myself - or at least the nearest big intersection. ;)
- Jandy
Mousing over the usernames shows your Google profile info...cool.
- Mark Krynsky
I marked a bus stop near my house. But not TOO near. :)
- Nine
If you haven't yet...go add FriendFeed to your Google Profile...it will then auto-discover and allow you to add a ton of other profiles you have.
- Mark Krynsky
Thanks for the profile tip - I hadn't updated it since I moved here!
- Jandy
Thanks guys. This is coming along nicely. It's great to have as a resource to see where everyone is from. Hopefully this can become a standard feature on FF one day.
- Mark Krynsky
Canterbury, Melbourne, Victoria added
- Duncan Riley
Current count: 13 US, 11 Europe, 3 Australia, 1 Middle East. Happy to see many others add themselves overnight. Hoping more will continue this.
- Mark Krynsky
I've read the instruction and still don't see the button thing to add myself. I'm feeling pretty stupid right now.
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@Jill, make sure you are logged into your Google account and then click on the edit button above the list of names already on the map. You will then see the pushpin in the upper left hand side of the map.
- Mark Krynsky
Added. Seems like there are a lot of us in the Bay Area...we must do a get together at some point.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
@Neal yea, we really need a FriendFeed meetup. I might be up there for Web 2.0 in March...or we can have one at SXSW if a large number of us are going. Let's plan and get the Upcoming page going.
- Mark Krynsky
@Mark Not gonna make SXSW, but am definitely down for working on an FF get together. March is long enough away to make sure plenty of people have time to plan ahead. I added you on Upcoming so we can start coordinating it. Anyone else interested/want to help set this up?
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Maybe we can talk Paul & Bret into letting us invade the FF offices for a meetup in conjunction with Web 2.0? That would be sooooo cool!
- Mark Krynsky
Pinned! sheesh this just cost me 1/2 hour of time as I scrolled thru all the folks :)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Except for Bret, there are no FriendFeeders on the penninsula between San Jose and San Francisco. So much for Silicon Valley early adopters.
- Ryan Kuder
Cluelessness alert! I'm not seeing how to add my pushpin!
- Hutch Carpenter
For some reason whenever i use google maps in creation-mode, it defaults to some other maps I've used, not the one I'm trying to access - ah, figured it out. Had to de-activate some other collaborative maps
- anna sauce
Added. What a great way to see who's on FF in Austin, TX!
- Carter ♥ HTML5
"Your post and train of thought reminds me of this post by Seth Godin - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/s... plus it is always a great validation when people of different backgrounds and starting points converge to the very same conclusions"
- George Tziralis
"Your post and train of thought reminds me of this post by Seth Godin - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/s... plus it is always a great validation when people of different backgrounds and starting points converge to the very same conclusions"
- George Tziralis
With regards to design, data can lead to local optimization, but probably the global optimization is mostly a matter of vision. Or that's just my inexperienced view of it :-)
- George Tziralis
"To me, entrepreneurs cannot but rely on a pipeline of active bets; if that pipeline becomes thin and the metrics you monitor turn gloomy, you typically are the first to get that the picture is hopeless, so you leave the boat."
- George Tziralis
"To me, entrepreneurs cannot but rely on a pipeline of active bets; if that pipeline becomes thin and the metrics you monitor turn gloomy, you typically are the first to get that the picture is hopeless, so you leave the boat."
- George Tziralis
"To me, entrepreneurs cannot but rely on a pipeline of active bets; if that pipeline becomes thin and the metrics you monitor turn gloomy, you typically are the first to get that the picture is hopeless, so you leave the boat."
- George Tziralis
"I loved the interview, and I agree with most of DHH's comments, but I think that being absolute on the correctness of a number of opinions (like, "all VC powered companies are flawed" etc) is fundamentally wrong, absoluteness is not the case when you talk about people and their actions."
- George Tziralis