Given the average level of morale and motivation of Groupon's employees right now, I'm not sure why I would want to follow Mason's advice...
459 karma · joined April 25, 2012
The worst is to book this round-the-world ticket, where you have to decide in advance how long you'll stay at each point. We travelled around the world for 1 year and ended up staying as much as one month in one place where we'd planned to stay 1 day, or literally flee out of countries like Malaysia after 2 days.
Hey, you forget how health care is so great in France :p
PS. Each time I read that a computer "understands" human language, I have a good laugh.
1- Identify the type of entity of the answer (does the question start with "who" ? or "when" ? etc.
2- Gather as many facts and blobs related to the question from Wikipedia, etc.
3- Intersect these facts with the entity type, and answer.
I don't believe you can provide useful customer service with that. 90% of the times, customers complain about something wrong with their account, like Paypal holding a payment. They don't need or expect fact-based answers like the ones Watson knows how to answer.
How can you call "discovery" a process where users receive everyday a push for the app that paid the highest bid to AppGratis ?
On Mountain Lion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3mhkYbznBk
Incredible talk for both the content and the form ! There is so much we could learn from him.
Enjoy until you go bankrupt, dear Mr Moore.
At the beginning I thought it was good piece of humble thoughts: What did we do wrong ? How can we improve ? Then I realized it was exactly the contrary. Atrocious.
What most commenters don't understand, in my opinion, is that real entrepreneurs don't start their company to get rich. If getting rich is your priority, become an investment banker (If you really want to code, make some automatic trading algorithms and financial models for investment bankers.)
In that regard, selling your company is, very often, a failure.
In my experience, the worst is to have to give up your values. As a young entrepreneurs, I started my first company 10 years ago with not only a strong vision for my product, but also an quite idealistic goal for the values of my company and my team. We wanted to be different. We wanted to do things as we thought it was right to do. And nobody could tell us what we had to do. It was such a strong feeling. It drove the success of the company. Ten years later, we got acquired by a large corporation that is not better or worse than you normal large corporation. And we had to give up all that. That's failure.
My friend, to start with you should learn a little bit about women psychology...
Online dating != Picking up items in an online store
- keep the policy unchanged, and lose your customers, or
- remove the $35 minimum, and lose money on every order
Welcome to the real world !
Find me a way to get rid of the absurd 3% worldwide tax that Visa, Amex, Mastercard take on every payment for almost NO added value (well there was added value 30 years ago, but today ?) and then, OK, let's call this innovation.