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Moving the needle
- AznHisoka 14y agoToo abstract, and very fluffy piece. So how is DDG gonna make revenue again?
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- FireBeyond 14y agoAgreed. He spends 326 words saying what can be summed up as "when you're small, small changes will be noticeable. When you're large, you'll need to make some larger changes to notice a difference". Actually, that's not a summary, so much as I challenge anyone to find more value or detailed analysis in the original piece.I read it and thought "what did I learn here?", not to mention how utterly vague it was.
- tptacek 14y agoFunny how when Gabriel Weinberg writes something, random anonymous HN commenters get voted to the top of the thread explaining how obvious and superficial the article is. But when 37signals, which, like Weinberg, actually runs a real business that has to deal with these issues, acts in a way that is entirely consistent with that article, so much so that you have to wonder whether Weinberg's post is literally a response to them! --- the peanut gallery is up in arms about how "no company would ever walk away from 6 figure passive income".
- Mithrandir 14y agoThis kinda reminds me of an article Gabriel Weinberg wrote a couple months ago about eliciting emotion: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/05/eliciting-emotion.html http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/05/eliciting-emotio...
- tptacek 14y agoWhat the fuck does this comment have to do with Gabriel's post? Who's voting this comment to the top of the thread?
- AznHisoka 14y agoI wasn't expecting anyone to upvote it, but why does it matter who's upvoting it? You're not God, and can't dictate what others should upvote or downvote.
- jknupp 14y ago"take the big tech giants like Google, Microsoft and Apple. To them, if it is not an x $billion opportunity, it isn't worth expending resources on it." ...? Surely it's worth them spending x $billion - $1 (or some similarly small but less pedantic amount).
- dmckeon 14y agoThe question is not "is this opportunity capable of making a profit at cost X?" but "if BigCorp could spend X on this opportunity, or spend X on a different opportunity, which one (or neither) should they choose?" Consider the chances of getting a larger share of a different market, the opportunity cost of one investment over another, the possible synergy with other investments, total returns on total investment, and "if we spend X, how much will that move the needle?"
- jknupp 14y agoThat would be their opportunity cost, which falls under the general umbrella term "cost".
- Lukeas14 14y agoCase in point: Every time I post my project http://iwaat.com http://iwaat.com in a relevant HN comment I see a noticeable bump in the analytics graph for that day. Hopefully, I won't be noticing HN comment traffic for very much longer.
- foxhop 14y agoWhat do you use to convert the web pages to images?
- Lukeas14 14y agohttp://shrinktheweb.com http://shrinktheweb.com. Although I'm looking into switching over to a cheaper solution (http://url2png.com http://url2png.com or http://linkpeek.com http://linkpeek.com)
- j_s 14y agosee also wkhtmltoimage: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
- therealarmen 14y agoInteresting opening paragraphs but this seems like Part 1 to a series of posts. That's a lot of people and is why early traction verticals like blog posts and non-mainstream press won't get you there. However, you have other options and usually more resources now that you're bigger. Well, what are the other options? I don't mean this in a derogatory way at all, I sincerely want to learn.
- epi0Bauqu 14y agoIt's thinking behind part of a book chapter we're writing for http://tractionbook.com http://tractionbook.com
- therealarmen 14y agoCool, I subscribed to the email list.
- DanielRibeiro 14y agoThis reality is also why viral growth is so powerful: growth % is built in and works somewhat regardless of user base size. You technically don't need viral growth to have this. You just need sustainable growth[1] [1] http://www.deviantbits.com/blog/engines-of-growth.html http://www.deviantbits.com/blog/engines-of-growth.html