MWarneford

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by MWarneford 15y ago
Some of the pictures ( http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/coldwar/coldwar003-51.... ) point to subway entrances. Perhaps it was built via the subway? Or at the same time?
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by MWarneford 16y ago
There's a beautiful coffee table book "The Pixar Story" that talks about the cash Jobs put into Pixar. The book claims Jobs purchased Pixar for $5M and immediately invested another $5M. When he purchased the company he was also running NeXT
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Converting players into payers in 5 steps(dubitplatform.com)
1 points by MWarneford 16y ago|0 comments
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by MWarneford 16y ago
We develop casual MMOs (think Club Penguin). These are not nearly as complex as a WOW, much closer to Farmville. In our case, like most MMOs, nearly all our messages go back and forth over persistent socket connections, not HTTP requests. F
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by MWarneford 17y ago
Seriously, this level of attention doesn't seem to be rational anymore. The guy is trying to build a business that creates jobs, and hes putting some of his own capital on the line to do it. Thats the most important point here - he's making
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by MWarneford 17y ago
There is an excel model included in the post, I'd love your feedback to make this model better. I'm hoping that we can help other entrepreneurs who are building freemium businesses understand the relationships between the metrics, and how t
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Template virtual world (or freemium) business model, spreadsheet included(dubitplatform.com)
5 points by MWarneford 17y ago|1 comments
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by MWarneford 17y ago
I agree with the general sentiment that traction beats a prediction, however, I think its valuable to understand the relationship between the key metrics before you start. Thats not to say that your model will match reality, but its certain
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by MWarneford 17y ago
Agreed. I would also argue that the audience will significantly effect the 'width' of the distribution. For example, lets imagine we're building a model that will be used to predict the hosting costs for a website for tweens. I think it wou
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by MWarneford 17y ago
That would be fascinating, thanks. Screen shots of daily traffic from different geographies would be amazing. I'm interested to know if the traffic flow is normally distributed for a given geography - or if there is a better approximation.
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by MWarneford 17y ago
I know its 'crude' to post ones own article, but I'm hoping the community can highlight flaws and improve the spreadsheet in the post. I'm working to build a template open source virtual world (or freemium) business model. I feel there are
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Business plan: how to model visitors per hour from multiple geographies(dubitplatform.com)
1 points by MWarneford 17y ago|6 comments