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1: 14% of the population is black,

2: 90% of white America have never spoken to a black person let alone have a black friend.

3: So where do their stereotypes come from, rap?, news?, (with regards to height) NBA?

4: They don't like to talk about this and this will be flagged off HN.

It amazes me with so little to no interaction with a group, white America can infer a black persons character and be so confident in doing so.

EDIT: "In fact, PRRI's data show that a full 75 percent of whites have "entirely white social networks without any minority presence." The same holds true for slightly less than two-thirds of black Americans."

Look at it another way 66% of black people say they do not have a white person in their social network. So roughly 34% of 14% of the population have a person in their social network from the white population. So how the hell can all these white people claim to have all these black friends? How can all these white people know so much about people they don't have meaningful interactions with?

I have visited his writings in the above link more than the actual Gigaom site. One thing i will say, is that there are some really talented journalists at Gigaom.

Interestingly i have noticed that Quora has some nice thoughtful answers to tech questions, especially questions that have no shot in hell of being answered on SE.

2) Arrington also has an article on it http://techcrunch.com/2008/07/15/how-many-of-our-startup-exe...

Most people won't take the time to explore all the different products and how to fit them together. This is why Evernote says its best when described by a friend but others might say that the best products are an opinionated system directed at a specific type of user and demographic. You could have an Evernote for designers or developers or accountants or bloggers or researchers or wallstreet analysts but these would have to look totally different to get the love from its users. Bottom line Evernote is too general for most.

Evernote needs to weed out customers like you as quickly as possible but it will require a more streamlined product.

Steve: "One of the biggest motivations for working so hard for a few years to make a great product, is you want one yourself and we use all the handsets out there and boy is it frustrating, it's really frustrating, its a category that needs to be reinvented, needs to be made not only more powerful but much easier to use and so we thought we could contribute something and we don't mind the fact that there's other good companies making products out there. The fact is 1 billion handsets were sold in 2006 & if we get just 1% market share, thats 10million units."

I don't know why but i always remember the guy from pinterest talk, when he spoke about going over a year and just having around 13000 users. I also remember a blog post by someone who actually spoke to him about his idea and didn't like it. How many of todays VC's, incubators & entrepreneurs would stick around for 2yrs to see if an idea will get traction?

Then for some reason i always think about Kevin Rose's milk which had a couple hundred thousand users in just around 3 months and he shut it down. I noticed he has started with the same concept again. Personally i think you cant point a finger at either side as it is hard to stick with a slow growth business and also hard to accept defeat. I think that you just have to be believe so much that your way is the right way and make the world understand that, just the way Steve Jobs did with the iphone in a competitive market.

This is why activist hedgefunds are lining up to destroy Yahoo and make a buck. The board clearly complained about Marissa bailing out failed silicon valley startups for millions. Messageme was an unoriginal product created by people with a favorable track record but the actual product had nothing to offer users except growth hacking by using the facebook friends graph api. Spending millions on this aquihire makes no sense.

What Yahoo needs is a core product that is a big win, Marissa said Tumblr would bring this, but instead we have seen competition on mobile increase and time across social media and blogging apps fragment. We have seen them lose their weather app monopoly on ios and yahoo mail on mobile is not gaining traction. Across the hot core areas being, search, social, cloud services, document services, smart hardware and artificial/assisted intelligence, yahoo is nowhere to be seen. Yahoo needs to seize the initiative and focus on a core competency and win big.

Snapchat at a $10 billion valuation has too much risk for someone that needs a big win. It really seems like snapchat investors are running some kind of pump and dump scheme the way they pushing this valuation. As things stand Snapchat has to go public to make good on a $10b valuation.