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simonebrunozzi
34,862karma·9,959submissions·May 24, 2008
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Opinions my own.
Current: VC in Europe at Rialto.VC
Previously: Operating partner at Cota Capital; co-founder of Fabrica.land, co-founder of Cloud Academy; CTO at VMware; Tech Evangelist at AWS. @simon on Twitter (yep, early user).
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It seems like a simple but nice idea. Good luck! I just signed up :)
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This is an amazing methaphor. :)
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The slides are awesome! Great work. I also like speakerdeck a lot.
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This is super cool, Tom!
Good luck :)
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Nice initiative. A pity I won't be in town. It would be nice if you could post some videos after the event.
Good luck!
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This is a good thing, but having known Canonical and Ubuntu since the start (2004), I would really love to see them succeed in the desktop market first. This initiative will de-focus their efforts.
I …
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Agree with you, $crazygringo.
Most of the time, when people talk about it:
Europe = DE, FR, sometimes UK, more rarely IT/CH/AT and scandinavian countries.
Asia = "chinese" Asia, which is China and Sou…
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I'm sorry to hear this. I love my dad, who is still alive, and I think I should try to spend more good time with him, now that we live far away.
My sympathy to you, Notch.
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Good point. I think that if the "mother" company can fund the startups, without getting in the way, and accept a reasonable equity, then it's a good formula for success.
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Me too, more or less. Sad.
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The article is quite nice, but I have to say that there's nothing surprising. I found it a bit shallow. Also, it would have been nice to change the title into "3 things we have done right so far AT OU…
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Any specific reason why you need this? Can you explain the use case?
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Great job, Jeff!
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Interesting!
My view is that "how to teach" is way more difficult, and therefore important, than simple subject knowledge. I can find dozens of very expert Developers, willing to teach for a good sala…
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LOL!
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Sown, you should go! Matt, you rock!!!!
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You're so nice Matt. Big hugs to you! Sometimes I see random acts of kindness (like yours), and they still surprise me. I bet every one of us did a few, and received a few.
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Before thinking about enhancing tranportation, we should ask ourselves IF we need to travel more.
In the last five years I took 500 flights (all on economy class except for two), and I also took about…
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Since you need money quickly, this is what I suggest:
1) Sell your stuff on Ebay or Craigslist or similar.
2) Find temporary work for a company that pays decent money (Lyft, Uber, TaskRabbit, Mechanic…
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The video is now available here:
http://slidesha.re/qefqHn
(about 35 minutes) Best regards, Simone
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Yannis,
which service would you like to see covered this way?
If multiple ones, which one should have the priority? Best, Simone (T: @simon)
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Thanks, evilswan.
Do you have any feedback on how to improve it?
I will shortly release a video version of it.
Best, Simone
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Hi Spyrosk,
the videos will be available shortly. If you want to get updated, send me an email (you find the contacts on my Twitter page, @simon). Best, Simone
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Hi guys,
this is Simone Brunozzi, the "new hire" at Amazon.com.
Second Life is not the new holy grail, I just said that it was a key factor for me. Second Life is still in its infancy, and it's useful…