If it is user oriented, I would release the project and make sure you have a feedback loop to see how the project is being used by the end users. You are finished when they are happily using your project, you usually don't get to decide for them.
If the project is presentation oriented, or if you only think you get one shot, then I usually step away, come back, make a punch list, and complete the project by completing the punch list.
You can say that about smart people too. It is just hard to
jump outside the framework of your own education and experiences and come to a conclusion that conflicts with
everything you see as being right. He should have validated
his hypothesis by backing into his conclusion using several independent methods and not relying on just one.
There are lots and lots of hotels in any city that serve
different niches of the market. Not just one. Some marketing analysis might reveal niches that can be exploited cheaply
by you.
Ask you a question: OK. Why doesn't Google develop a database
that is somewhere between Excel and SQL. Instead of Relational
or cell and column oriented, make it list and tag oriented
that sits behind the web page. The database would help consolidate a lot of stuff I now see hardcoded.
The idea would be to take a Posterous like site, add the list and tag database and come up with a Facebook type of web page. The second phase would be to consolidate that data over the web to make that summarized, rankable and searchable.
I wonder what Posterous's arguments were for going for the direct attack route instead of an offer to purchase or merge?
You can get bigger quicker by purchasing competitors than by
swiping their clients I would think.
I would not even think business, takes longer. Think infomercial. For example: That star wars sword thingy was just a flash light on the end of a plastic tube and made the
guy a million so I heard.
Measuring the psychology of the markets using web seems to be an interesting idea. This a better shot then most I have seen. Next step is to see if each stock's results are leading or lagging and over what time period.
My summary of the article would be:
Relying on the statistics of a distribution works but relying
on a optimization of the same distribution doesn't work.
Here are some charts on the subject.
http://www.financialcyclesweekly.com/public/530.cfm?sd=2
The charts are interesting but not sure about the financial links. They do seem to affect weather patterns which in turn affect crop yields.
Sound like you need 2 apps, one: the teacher's assistant app
that the kid works with and a second app that monitor's the analytics of the students progress real time so instead of
working one on one with the kid you can work with multiple
kids with different hours and with different study paces all
at the same time. Teachers and parents can review the progress from a overview level and direct accordingly.
The parents are the ones that pay you so maybe that is where
the deal can be made. Make it so the parents can oversee the kid's progress without actually knowing the answers or doing any work. A cheaper tutor.
My thought would be to stay away from the teachers. Quiz the kid to see where they need help and then teach away with loads of feedback and reinforcement.
That's what I was thinking. The markets is there but in front of it there is this very big bureaucracy that you have to deal with. So maybe point the app towards something like
homework where the educational bureaucracy doesn't have much control.
I would agree. Windows has the largest population of
non-computer literate people worldwide so hackers get the bigest bang for their buck and windows gets a bad rap. If everyone jumps to another OS so will the security problems.
Making a firm decision like this as to what the Twitter customer wants seems like a bad idea in my opinion.
I would have rather have seen Twitter create a preference check box allowing those who want ads to have them, and set 3rd party ad policy for Twitter to share in the revenue.
Twitter is far from having a secure source of income so killing instead of controlling early revenue sources doesn't seem like a good idea.
Being "adult" may not be the problem. You may want to think of the problem as a "niche market" problem. Retail companies
that succeed in niche markets do so by branding themselves better than everyone else. You might look for a different
"niche" to market like adding hair trimmers, body washes, etc to attract a different clientele and market the higher margin toys as a website afterthought.
I like the comparison with poker. Doesn't mean that Facebook
is out of the game by a long shot, it does open the space up for some competition. Maybe the companies that helped push FB along should get together and start their own?
My guess is that the algorithms do well within say one standard deviation range but beyond that the computers
step away. Once the computer volume drops, markets get thin
and "Market Orders" produce the results you see. You see bad
fills quite a bit in penny stocks but never in these large volume stocks.
Seems a little early to start pigeonholing kids for that
type of stuff. I would rather pick it up from grades and
such. And put yourself in an environment your not used to
and most everyone will see and hear things that aren't there
too.
I thought the issue wasn't "Obama is right that you have to watch out what personal information" you show per the comment but that Facebook is the culprit in exposing what information is public. A consistent policy from Facebook would go a longer way than getting the government involved to "police" the internet.
It's not so funny when you think that everyone depicted in the diagram is heavily armed. McChrystal is right though,
rearrange the dependencies into a more controllable bureaucracy (like writing a program) and you will have a better chance of success.