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This isn't really much of a surprise, it was virtually guaranteed by the Firefox deal. As the article says, "I doubt Google needs to worry. For one, that’s probably the high water mark".

Low-water mark (in terms of market share for Google) would probably be a better phrase, but the point is that unless Firefox grows a lot (which seems unlikely) the damage to Google is done.

Definitely. I try not to publish anything without at least 2 sets of trusted eyes looking over it first. Preferably more.

At any professional publication there are layers of editors. Generally the more professional the writer, the more their work is edited and proofread. In the words of E.B White "The best writing is rewriting.”

It's kind of the writers equivalent of writing tests (and code review). The good ones never ship before running them.

Some interesting outliers in there, for example Google's CFO, Patrick Pichette, at $650,000 in 2012

[1]http://visadoor.com/h1bvisa-2012-I-200-12121-384409/chief-fi...

"Our passion is building tools that make developers’ lives easier." Who is "Our" referring to?? Since when did Twitter become Atlassian?

This screen size is so, so disappointing. I'm an iphone 5s user and was eagerly awaiting the new Nexus to make the switch to Android. But 6" is a tablet that can make calls, not a phone. I WANT to switch to Android/Nexus for hundreds of reasons but this screen size is a deal break.

I need a phone I can use like... a phone.

I've tried the iphone 6 plus in person and it's a monstrosity to use, definitely not a one hand device. And the Nexus 6 is even larger?...

And I'm a man – I have pretty large hands. I can't imagine how it must feel in my wife (or many other women)'s hands.

This needs to stop.

Here: http://goo.gl/Cv2rNB

I pulled it from the article sp332 linked

That's a very naive view of the role of an academy. Most of the best ones go far beyond product training and into best practices and skill development.

It's not the role of HootSuite's product to teach you the theory & best practice of being a great social media manager. It's not the role of HubSpot's product to teach you how to be a great marketer. But that's precisely what HootSuite and HubSpot's academies do, and why those certifications actually mean something.

You can even see in Optimizely first iteration of their academy, they have wisely split into separate learning tracks: strategy, configuration, product, and results. https://learn.optimizely.com/hc/en-us/sections/200386128-Beg...

Finally even on the product side, that doesn't make sense one you get to high value products. On one end of the spectrum are consumer apps – and I agree with you there. E.g. If you needed an academy to learn how to use the Twitter iphone app, something is seriously wrong. On the other end of the spectrum are products bought by businesses for $100k+. These products generate a ton of value, when implemented properly, and touch many processes – they are complex and they need to be. As an executive, if I'm buying software for $250K you will be absolutely sure I'm paying $5K for all my admins to get certified on the product ASAP. You can't wait 6 months for them to learn it when there's thousands of dollars of value on the line every day tied to their efficiency. B2B products lie at different points along this spectrum and academies generate great ROI at almost every level when done properly.

How does this compare with what Intercom is offering? Is this a move to compete directly?

What are the odds that the people behind this are shorting FB?

There's no shortage of sensationalist stories about public companies – even a tiny bit of price movement can be leveraged for big gains.

oh ya, whatcha selling?

Sleep at minimum 7 hours (ideally 8), exercise every morning, drink lots of water.

It's simple. Execution is the hard part.

Perhaps I missed something... where is Aubrey de Grey linked with Calico? I didn't see any mention of him in Larry's post, the press release, or the time article. Where is this coming from?

There's a caution story here. Today we finally pushed a near-complete rewrite in Angular of our Sproutcore app. It wasn't cheap.

When we started with SC, it was backed by Apple, Yehuda had just declared it the future of web development, and everything was very rosy.

After Ember split off from SC and the company developing it (Strobe) got acquihired by Facebook, the community got completely decimated and it quickly became a sinking ship.

The one thing SC never had was a ton of large scale real-world deployment (outside of Apple). I think that's the lesson here.

"Describe your product in 3-5 words. Consider comparing your product with something that people are already familiar with. For example:

-> Better comparison shopping (Shopobot)

-> Flickr for video (YouTube)

-> Group video chat (Tinychat)"

- AngelList hover suggestion for writing your high-concept pitch.

Here's how I see it:

1) There are many, many thousands of startups on AngelList.

2) AL explicitly prescribes this exact "X for Y" formula for writing your 1-liner, where X is a well-known success.

3) Uber is a well-know success.

4) Author points out that "30+" companies chose Uber as their X.

This doesn't really seem like a fair characterization. People are following suggested wisdom and 30+ is hardly considerable. Probably about what would be statistically expected, distributing good candidates for X (well-known successes) across AL startups.

I haven't received the legal bill yet for the trademark work. Expect it to be close to the middle of the range you gave. Time was minimal, a couple emails to our trademark agent was all it took.

We're in Vancouver and our lawyers are Clark Wilson. I'm happy but this is my first time registering a trademark, so I don't have a frame of reference.

email paul at learndot.com if you have other questions. :)

I really admire Ev's transparency. It's relieving (and a little scary) that starting a new company seems only slightly less difficult for him as for the rest of us. Money, team, reputation, network are all nice things to have. But none of it matters if unless you make something new that people want.