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ericwanon Electronic Arts to Acquire PopCap Games for $750 Million

i believe it is 1 to 1

ericwanon Basketball Stats: They all maximize what they think they’re being paid for

Well if they can't even do better than the S&P 500. Let's not hope that they'd do much to society analyzing other data. ;)

ericwanon Basketball Stats: They all maximize what they think they’re being paid for

First things came to my mind being that schools would use these data to determine admission. What kind of applicants will yield the best pay off? (endowment?) Same for companies hiring employees.

ericwanon Ask HN: Do You Twitter?

http://twitter.com/ericwan

don't twitter often, but try to understand its appeal and user dynamics.

ericwanon ConnectU Spills Value of Facebook Deal: $65M

The fact that we never heard of ConnectU but only facebook if they didn't file a law suit made me also think they probably would have failed.

ericwanon Sequoia Rings the Alarm Bell: Silicon Valley Is in Trouble

Mike Moritz is a general partner but not an LP I think... an LP is the institutional or individual investors who put money in the fund.

ericwanon TC50 interview with Mark Cuban

gotta do it while I still have a university email!

ericwanon TC50 interview with Mark Cuban

yep, he is so not pissed at what people say about Broadcast.com, as he knows its worth. And he backed that up with numbers.

ericwanon TC50 interview with Mark Cuban

another one that really strikes me:

Ill tell you what I learned from Bobby Knight: everybody’s got the will to win but when it comes time to doing something, it’s always about someone else. Not many people have the will to prepare. You got to be willing to know your product and environment better than anybody. No matter what you do there is someone out there trying to kick your ass. You got to be the smartest guy in the room about your product.

ericwanon Startups: How to Compete Against the Big Boys for Qualified Job Candidates

and prospect of a huge success too.

ericwanon Startups: How to Compete Against the Big Boys for Qualified Job Candidates

me neither. stock options and passion are your 2 best friends to win over big businesses

ericwanon Olympic Medal Count, Adjusted for Population and GDP

an interesting factor to see might be whether they're communist or the pro-West before the end of cold war.

ericwanon Join us at Hacker News Coffee, Palo Alto, Tuesday at 8:30am

will be there if i make it out of bed!

ericwanon Guy Kawasaki: Five most important lessons I've learned as an entrepreneur.

in physics inertia means both "not willing to move" and "not willing to stop"

ericwanon How Did You Get the Confidence to Start Your Business?

Don't take myself too seriously.

ericwanon Picwing (YC Summer 08) Debuts Their Social Digital Picture Frame

this one is awesome. I'd get one for my mom when it gets cheaper. =)

Have you guys thought of sync-ing them with flickr and facebook pictures? Or you guys are already working on it?

ericwanon RescueTime Gets a Shiny New Logo (Less red, still a plus)

I like the old one more...the old one is stronger and more memorable. Maybe too strong for some people. don't know.

ericwanon The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue)

So many people are focusing on the "10 years" thing. All he's actually saying is it's gonna take longer than you think it will.

ericwanon The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue)

Not gonna down mod you coz you've given thoughts to it.

Yet, your argument is inline with what the article says. It took Google 10 years for them to become a HUGE success. During this 10 years they probably have worked really hard everyday, and they're all brilliant people. For less talented people it probably takes even longer.

I guess your point is if you're just gonna do a declicious-scale success it doesn't take that long. YouTube even just took a year. But look at how much experience they have under their belt before that. It really depends on where you start counting that 10 years.

The article doesn't specify either, though. It's kind of vague.

ericwanon The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue)

They brought in no cash in 1999. (correct me if I'm wrong) How's it a success?

ericwanon Why Twitter Hasn’t Failed: The Power Of Audience

I don't think all those japanese using twitter cares about what Techcrunch has to say.

ericwanon A Fundraising Survival Guide

Man, I wanna vote this up for the 2nd time.

ericwanon History made: Go program MoGo beats professional player in 9-stone game

It also means we can do more with less. =)

ericwanon What were you doing during the first dot boom?

Going to 9th grade. Didn't know of Paypal, Excite, or even eBay. Yahoo is the only pre-bubble company I know. Hotmail was not a startup to me, it was a product of Microsoft.

ericwanon Reaching the $5 Million Club Takes an Open Mind

but he's saying, in order to get rich very likely you will need to do those things other people dare not to do, i.e. doing these things raise your chance of getting rich, which is true.

ericwanon Reaching the $5 Million Club Takes an Open Mind

Yep, especially for techies in america, they already have the right skills and conditions to feed themselves and families, then getting out of bed at 5am just to make some more sounds absurd. Not so much if your purpose is change the world, or be #1 in something.

ericwanon YC's summer update

Mitch Kapor is definitely more well-known.

ericwanon 15 Year Old Entrepreneur Launches Teens In Tech

agree. though the site doesn't sound impressive, what he's doing is still way better than going to school or figuring out ways to get alcohol

ericwanon Smart-people traps

bear in mind that most rich people are not like Steve Jobs. most of them the Bushes or people behind Enron.

ericwanon 6 Y Combinator Startups I Would Have Invested In Back Then

we'll see. =) i'd say it won't too, or it morphs into something totally different and succeed.