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Like "reverse surge pricing"... free coffee until the place gets busy.

It's hard to create a simple mark these days without bumping up against other branding. Couple people mentioned Mercedes as well.

This little guy - http://i.imgur.com/zLUMAG8.jpg?1

Thanks!

And Android followed suit. The policy change pretty much bifurcated the industry. Half died or sold themselves off - http://fortune.com/2014/10/29/after-a-blow-from-apple-nomi-s...

The other half doubled down on MAC address tracking tech, arguing that it still generates meaningful data - http://www.euclidanalyticsblog.com/2014/08/beacons-and-wi-fi... Although I've heard they've started to move toward video and facial recog.

We were so small at the time of the announcement last June that we thought... "Why don't we just build a door counter. How fing hard could that be?"

...turns out it's like way, really fing hard.

But here it is - http://i.imgur.com/zLUMAG8.jpg?1

Yeah.

Well, I guess it could be bad if I knew that it was always quiet and therefore "a drag" (sorry, that was a weird word to use). But I suspect any bar or club that's reasonably solvent, especially in populous cities, has busy times.

Atm though we only show the traffic right now and notify when something is triggered, quiet / trending.

Second, I think there are people out there that are not looking for busy bars. Rather quiet ones. I certainly fall into that category.

We're not in any bars right now, though. I'll get back to you once we have more data.

re: Minority Re..port... I've always been bad at reading. Do you know another example of a minority game? And is it a paradox or just a method of thinking about game strategy?

Parking - I agree. That one company has a unit that senses the presence of a battery in a parking spot.

Other open problems - I think your talking about how datasets affect one another. What's really interesting about that regarding foot traffic is that there currently isn't a way to know how many people came and went. Which means it's currently tough to draw connections between how foot traffic might affect the farmer's market or the subway or the financial district in San Francisco.

Can you explain map demand irrespective of supply?

Checking PDF..

Can you give me an example of how quiet could be bad?

Rig up... We can normalize multi-entrance places. Actually Blue Bottle is a multi-entrance place.

Local business voicemails are the worst :)

Re: Minority report. Yeah, I think there's a space in the future where utility and privacy don't have to be traded for one another.

There's another cool company doing parking called Parkifi I think.

Someone else mentioned El Farol Bar. If we're causing too many people to show up or too many to stay home... that would be an awesome problem to have.

Re: Kansas City. Friends with some of the founders / early people over at Zaarly. We're definitely keeping Kansas City in mind ;)

Yes. Actually, that's our model. We designed the hardware to be cheap enough to be free (situation dependent) and then we monetize the resulting data.

We're happy with the change too. Simplified things. Any sensor trying to mass measure foot traffic across a city needs to be accurate, real time, anonymous, and cheap.

gentrification: to renovate and improve (especially a house or district) so that it conforms to middle-class taste.

classist?

Dropbox and Airbnb employees rented a park in the Mission. Video of the argument picked up steam when it was used to illustrate gentrification in San Francisco.

I thought his comments about available capital (specifically) to social communication companies was interesting.

There was so much homogeneity in tech in '99/'01. So many companies doing very similar things.

I guess I'm wondering: Are we (the tech market) sufficiently diversified in what our companies do? Enough to see segments of the industry pop but not the entirety?

I wonder what pg thinks of this?

>the handful of tech CEO's you know only from reputation.

This is an important point.

Jobs, Gates, Ellison, Travis K. are each notorious. We love stories about these guys because they're entertaining and sometimes shocking (I admit, I certainly do, anyway).

You don't read much about Drew Houston or Chesky, except when Dropbox partners with Microsoft or Airbnb elaborately rolls out a new logo. But when Steve Jobs would reply to one customer's email, in his customarily curt fashion, there was always a press field day.

It's possible that "nice" CEOs are less interesting to talk about but no less effective.

Funny, I've always had relative success with Nair..

Heard they're reworking the whole DM system.

I like the .coffee domain. Nice get. Although, with 190+ points, "I'll buy you coffee" might get a bit expensive.