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A former Telsa employee who worked with Elon share inside information on Elon and how he will turn Twitter around

Great conversation of content on this new threaded app called CrowdChat

WSJ stole my headline... ha

http://www.forbes.com/sites/siliconangle/2012/11/20/hp-swind...

DevOps is hot area right now.. applications are driving the infrastructure and it's changing what cloud is..developers are in charge

Big time developers have always said that OS X is a better Unix development environment than Linux. Dell is smart to come out with a power Linux development station. My friends have been replacing their unix workstations with Macintoshes. Mac OS X is basically plain Unix -BSD flavor. Now Dell is going there. Smart by Dell

@furrier

I cannot duplicate the error..sometimes i've seen providers have f'd up dns where some bad stuff happens..

thanks for pointing that out we are not doing that on our end so wanted to let you know that..it might be coming from another source...i'm investigating

john (founder of the site)

LobbyCon is the best action for data ...it's all about the hallways. I will say that lots of folks know each other online so meeting face 2 face is a fun time to bond and party rather than info gathering which conferences are not good for anyway (due to the real time web)

-john furrier palo alto

Series B are even tougher than an A round unless you get a tier 1 who will support you... very key to that A round decision

Investors get a free look at the execution savvy of the founders and their idea in the new seed marketplace ...so it's more efficient for the VCs thx to the ycombo and other incubators...people can slam all they want on incubators but its a nice working model...gets more ideas exposed and funded...

cheers John F @siliconangle

Microsoft of the old "Gates" days build a developer ecosystem built for geeks to create value. Microsoft only killed competitors never partners

I decided to post the entire interview based upon feedback here at Hacker News - THANKS for the feedback.

What impressed me about Mike and FB's approach is that they are thinking holistically about system software ontop of open source.

The other trend that is highlighted is the inter disciple required now for these type of engineering environments.

thanks. The post was too long to post as one interview.

This is part I in a multi-part series. Mike is a good guys. It was great conversation especially on some of the haystack work to how they are hiring.

Other parts coming soon FB Engineering vision Haystack project Hiring integreted engineering disciplines FB as an OS Open source role within FB How to get more out of Memcache and MySql His vision of cloud computing How involved is Mark Zuckerberg in engineering FB buying spree how do you integrate companies Lessons shared from his work at Mozilla and FB

Amazing post from a talented guy in Vik. Great stuff.

When Vik and I were talking about this we were struck by the large amount of duplicates in the system.

What does this mean?

Here is my ANGLE: It's possible that Twitter is mostly echo chamber (NOISE) or it's lacking circulation of quality content

I think BOTH.

how can i tell who knocked my comment down to -2

Advisory boards are window dressing yes but I would say that scoring good advisors speaks to the influence of the entrepreneur and the merit of the idea.

In general most investors understand advisory boards are more of show but to me they demonstrate the kind of "company the startup intends to keep".

Ultimately advisory boards are endorsements - plain and simple.

Totally agree with Mark in the post that active advisory boards will require more discipline by the startup teams and equity compensation for advisors.

this industry is embronic and more innovation will occur. I love the cloud market very compelling and important for entrepreneurs and big businesses.

We will all be renting computing and storage in the short future.

I like Matt so I'm not dissing him - I'm just saying that paid search was a new trend in 99-02 and if regulation was in place then I think that that offering would not have scaled to the success that it has provided to marketers today. Now like then we are stuck with a poor monetization solution AdSense and CPM display ads. They flat out don't work.

A new solution is need and that innovation will come from startups and tech developers. IMHO

This is a good post going in depth to provide value. Keep this series going please!!!

Young guns from Google. I know Ethan from Google video days. I like how they bootstrapped it. No full time employees til the product launches in the market. Smart move.

We are living in a new counter culture

the promise of changes at the edge of the network are now happening.

Validation: With microblogging (or other forms with video and audio) and > 3G mobile new data forms will create massive new opportunities that will disrupt - search, UI, enterprise computing - this is the real time web

The Real Time Web is only value if it solves Real Time Needs

I'm very bullish on the real time but not the way most startups are approaching it. Most are missing the boat big time. Great opportunity for developers and entrepreneurs.

great post - you gotta love the enjoyment of Larry as they say in boston - he's a playa

It was fun to watch the video on youtube that is in the comments - that was funny as s$it

I really am enjoying the thread here on my post. Interesting to see some of the comments thinking that I'm anti-development with my quote about product mktg and validation is the scarce resource. Of course great architects and developer are the scare resource but I've seen many code a great solution right now a cul de sac of no market.

to me the biggest issue driving this counterculture that I'm seeing is "trust" of the capital markets. Especially since most of the productive actors in this marketplace have lived in a successful open source movement culture for 25 years. The capital markets (VCs) are at odds with this culture.

There are many other points in the post that I would be happy to discuss if there is interest.

For technical folks bootstrapping say a iphone or fb app is very little money and 25-150k could be used for market validation - another very important part of the startup cycle. If the entrepreneur is say a business person who can't code anymore then a prototype cost will be roughly 25k or so just to get an initial build this still isn't enough to launch. So getting a customer immediately is very important and working capital to service and grow.

There are only two ways to get money for a startup: 1) top line revenue from a product or service or 2) sell equity or do a debt note. That's it.

I've estimated that the required amount for a "real" seed round in today's open source environment for tech ventures is about 200-300k. That is unless you are young and can do the coding yourself. However technology isn't the driver any more for startups. The scarce talent is business model engineering and product marketing - building for scale isn't the problem anymore. I can build a hack protytype that works well into the "validation" stage to establish a funding event or customer revenue stream then use the new capital to rebuild, hire and grow.

I was just making the point that the possibility of creating a huge "home run" which is the desired VC outcome (eg like an Apple or HP) is difficult when VCs "pass" on what looks like a few guys making an iphone app or something.

My other point is that many entrepreneurs need more than 25k to build their prototype yet fail to do it do to the clutter in the funding market hence two guys building in a garage for a customer project might not get funded in today's climate.

To me if an entrepreneur can create a product get it to market and get profitable they are a success and possibly could be a big "home run". If the investment thesis is to get the home run then it most likely will overlook two guys in a garage.

great angle on this story from SiliconANGLE.com lots buzzing on why this happened. Its an example of the misinformed blogosphere. Thanks for clarifying the story

This has huge implications for european entrepreneurs. My Angle is that this great news for them. EU startups will be the dark horse in this new market reality. Right now EU startups need more zero and early stage financing. Skype will be the EU bellweather over there. Congrats to Josh and his team for executing like a startup and not letting a corporate structure stop them from doing great.

My Angle: I am curious to see how Google structures their fund. How entrepreneur friendly will they be? Will they be a strategic investor (translation: driven by internal priorities) verses financial profit motive?

http://www.siliconangle.com/ver2/?p=3668

Great stuff Paul. Welcome to Silicon Valley.