NickDouglas

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by NickDouglas 19y ago
Would you join a Reddit that charged $5 a year and was invite only? You'd get to invite five new users per year.
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
I just started a blog called "Bad Idea a Day" (it's at that .com, but I'm not trying to advertise it). I force myself to think of a product, story, lifehack, or any idea each morning. It's just for fun and mental practice. But so far I like
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
I live a block away from the Craigslist office (which is, yes, in a normal-looking house/storefront with a charmingly ugly sign above the door). I often walk past it during business hours, but the gate is always closed and locked. I bumped
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
Good point; that's what I learn from making judgments about other people's industries. I won't back out of my bet, of course, but I can see how I might lose it.
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
It's pretty awesome that Google has invented a magical machine for determining an employee's worth.
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
"Every single idea is derivative. Many successful products are simply about taking something that exists and then changing its focus or its look." Yyyyyyes...but understand that Truemors is rather more "derivative" than, say, the iPod or Wi
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
Also, what he said.
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
If 500 people are willing to pay $10 for a piece of software, a developer has two options: 1. Make it on your site for $5000 (minus your cut) and feel good about themselves; 2. Make it themselves, sell it on the web for $10, and make much m
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
They're still small, right? Join 'em.
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
I like it, though I'll bet a hundred bucks it doesn't turn a profit in the first two years.
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
But CNET says you may want to double-check that listing: http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-6188675.html
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Rate-a-lawyer(avvo.com)
1 points by NickDouglas 19y ago|1 comments
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
Or qraggle.com?
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
Good article, and even better if you link to the original: http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2007/03/12/5-ways-to-stop-being-late/
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
You hit my biggest problem with the idea: Gossip already spreads better among networks of people who care. It's not some concept I can just go to a page for. So the topic of the content is not a value add. As for the technology, we've seen
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
People from both the Merc and the Chronicle talked to me about doing work for them; I've heard both are laying off a good chunk of the staff. The inevitability of this was one of the reasons I didn't pursue either. (I hope I can do enough o
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
And according to his comment on this post, he wasn't really "exposed." He's just a bit slow at getting back to the organizers he cancels on.
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
Hey founder: shut up? http://powazek.com/posts/534 http://jpdefillippo.com/blog/2007/05/16/the-blog-post-i-never-wanted-to-make/
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
Great points. And back forward! We did hear it last year; I reported it several times at Valleywag. Facebook has smaller profits, but the point of the small staff is that their personnel costs are also 100 times smaller than Google's. And y
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
You could test them on their knowledge of Python. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP0sqRMzkwo
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
Re: My would-be career in journalism: I should have clarified. After Valleywag, I was courted (briefly; I wasn't too interested and they didn't push THAT hard) by several newspapers that I would have killed to get into back at college.
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
By the way, am I posting more self-links than is good form? If so, my apologies, and I can cut back.
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Why it's so hard to be a startupper (what I concluded after pondering Ev's "choose your game" post)(toomuchnick.com)
7 points by NickDouglas 19y ago|4 comments
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Business milestone: the Hot Chick Tipping Point(valleywag.com)
5 points by NickDouglas 19y ago|2 comments
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
Not only is this a great post, but most good blog posts could be edited this short and still make sense.
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
While it's easy to argue against his statement about the ease of monetization (does Warren even put ads on his sites?), I'm grateful for the note that burst culture is NOT killing attention spans, and the evidence is Harry Potter. (I'd say
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
Small FYI: Analysts' price targets are usually bullshit.
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
Yeah, wake me when part 2 is up.
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
That's a great term, the "de facto mentioned place": "If I had played it right, we might have hit that moment where you become the de-facto mentioned place in articles about a certain topic."
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by NickDouglas 19y ago
Wait, shouldn't that be "Had enough Justin?" Man, the Chronicle always has the sloppiest headlines.

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