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Not at the moment, but would love to hear more about what you're looking for.

Yes, coming soon! Email me at sgerstenzang@stripe.com if you'd like to try this feature out early.

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I think you are oversimplifying "the idea". Google's idea wasn't that "people will want to search online." Google's insightful, interesting idea that was then well-executed was the PageRank algorithm.

Geocities, Myspace and Facebook were all very different ideas. If the first two had executed better, all 3 would probably still co-exist.

This is the more common meme, and I think it is healthy to keep 'idea folks' away. Even great ideas, without execution, are worthless.

But as you say, a great idea combined with a great execution is where things get really special. Still, I do think great ideas are rare. It depends a bit on how you define what an idea is: is it a social network? is it a social network within a college campus? is it requiring real world identity?

author here– agree with many of your points, except two: 1) I think great ideas are surprisingly rare, and are very difficult to recognize. It's especially hard because of how important execution is for 'uncovering' a great idea. Great idea, badly executed = looks like a bad idea

2) I think "burning passion" oversimplifies things. Many great businesses are built without 'passion' for the solution...just a passion for some part of the business...and sometimes that's just recognition of a great financial opportunity.

hey, author here! certainly didn't mean it that way at all– was telling a personal story and used specific examples from my experience to illustrate

Imgur's default is also HTML5 video– we support both WebM and MP4

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Alternatively, a creator can now build a product with fewer people and doesn't need to raise capital. This trend is extremely empowering of labor.

Why do you think enterprise development is different?

This article is a few months old: January 15th, 2014.

Please read the post with a heavy dose of sarcasm mixed with admiration :) I'd very much like to see formidable challengers arise.

And I actually wrote this post a week before Bezos bought the WaPo, although I think it only underscores the point.

He makes more than $8500 a week. That's just for the post sponsorship. He also makes money from the Deck network ad on the side.

check out http://peercdn.com

The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier by Howard Rheingold http://www.amazon.com/The-Virtual-Community-Homesteading-Ele...

What about exporting the Keynote to JPGs, and then putting the JPGs into a new Keynote and exporting as PDF?

Can anyone recommend any similar existing resources?

This bugs me too. I put the location in the Note section, which is tappable.

On the other hand, how passionate was pg about viaweb?

The uncensored version: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/10/13/be-careful-not...

And of course baby showers and the like as well.

Hennessy actually got rich founding MIPS Computer Systems Inc, years before Google.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_Computer_Systems_Inc.

Omar is Michael K Williams, not Michael K Richards.

Fascinating article and followup on some of Castro's changing views

"Fidel to Ahmadinejad: 'Stop Slandering the Jews'" http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/09/fid...

"Fidel: 'Cuban Model Doesn't Even Work For Us Anymore'" http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/09/fid...

Chartbeat is very cool, but I wonderful how useful it actually is.

Is the idea to modify content on the fly as it gains traction? I just don't really see how this service adds value (read: increases my revenue, pageviews, xxx), besides some nice live updating charts to look at.

Interesting that in 1994 6.1 billion made you the second richest man in the country. And that Microsoft's $25 billion market cap is compared with Kodak.

I wonder how this will affect Quora...

Just ask Calacanis!