JackHerrick

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by JackHerrick 13y ago
wikiHow ( http://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Jobs ) - Palo Alto We're "Wikipedia for how-to". We have over 40 million monthly users, but only 5 engineers. That's 8 million users per engineer! ==Our vision== Imagine a world where anyone can eas
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by JackHerrick 13y ago
I thought this was an interesting lesson for entrepreneurs who are always wondering if they should be entering new businesses. Here is a company that operated successfully doing the same thing for 1400 years. They then got excited by a ne
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The End of a 1,400-Year-Old Business (2007)(businessweek.com)
1 points by JackHerrick 13y ago|1 comments
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by JackHerrick 14y ago
Fantastic work! Wish Instagram had offered this option from their launch. Imagine how many great photos we would now have in the commons .
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by JackHerrick 14y ago
Palo Alto or REMOTE in PST timezone wikiHow Software Engineer wikiHow is the world's how to manual. Think "Wikipedia for hot-to instructions". Over 30 million users a month. Here is why working at wikiHow is unlike anything else in Silicon
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Enough With The Slideshow Pollution Huffington Post (daggle.com)
1 points by JackHerrick 15y ago|0 comments
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by JackHerrick 15y ago
Fantastic. I do 90% of my hacker news reading from a mobile. Can't stress how worth $5 this app was for me. Nice job! And thanks also for releasing it under the free BSD license too.
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by JackHerrick 16y ago
A good read for entrepreneurs learning their way around Sandhill Road's alphabet soup.
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by JackHerrick 16y ago
I actually have a lot of faith in Google to do the right thing for their users. After all they mostly walked away, or at least severely hampered their business in China. They will be more than willing to walk away from sites their users th
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A Duck & a Wiki Team Up Against the Content Farms(readwriteweb.com)
57 points by JackHerrick 16y ago|65 comments
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by JackHerrick 16y ago
True on the best hack being to actually DO referencing. That said, I thought the non-intuitive hack here was the trick about contacting the references and asking them to call you back as a sign of their view on the quality of the potential
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Non-intuitive hack to reference check hires quickly(wikihow.com)
2 points by JackHerrick 16y ago|2 comments
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Key hires - The case for extreme referencing(joshhannah.com)
25 points by JackHerrick 16y ago|7 comments
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Research shows avatars can negatively affect users(pda.physorg.com)
1 points by JackHerrick 17y ago|0 comments
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Your Work Habits and the Happiness Treadmill(rolfnelson.com)
25 points by JackHerrick 17y ago|5 comments