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by WillyF 16y ago
Best Buy is kind of doing this with their "buy back" program. If Apple continues becoming more and more predictable in terms of product release dates and pricing, I could almost see a startup doing this on their own. You buy Apple upgrade i
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by WillyF 16y ago
I'm helping to put college students and grads into jobs and internships that they never would have found without http://www.onedayonejob.com/ and http://www.onedayoneinternship.com/
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by WillyF 16y ago
I'm not running a job board, but I run a jobs website. That's a pretty small market for a job board. Companies that operate in markets that size usually have dozens/hundreds/thousands of properties. SEO is often huge for job boards. If you
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by WillyF 16y ago
I lost money the first year. I was profitable in name only the second year. I made a profit that would almost cover my rent the third year. Now I'm in my 4th year, and I'm actually making a living. January and February covered all of my exp
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by WillyF 16y ago
Is it Sheen Me dot me? Or Sheen Meme? Either one works. I just went to check if AsSheenOnTV.com was taken. Apparently someone already had that idea.
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by WillyF 16y ago
Call her before you go to bed... This would actually create an interesting problem. If you have a hardware switch and a software timer, then the switch is going to be wrong sometimes.
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by WillyF 16y ago
If you have any questions about One Day, One Job, I'm happy to answer them.
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by WillyF 16y ago
That's a really good suggestion. I mostly use the tag pages to flow linkjuice throughout the site, and it seems to work pretty well. I'll think more about how I can improve my site architecture. But I was doing pretty well until Thursday. T
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by WillyF 16y ago
Mine is one. Google traffic is down 30%, and that significantly affects my revenue. http://www.onedayonejob.com/
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by WillyF 16y ago
E-mail is a great way to reach job seekers. I know because I've built a business on it. The key is being able to build an audience of talented people who are excited about opening your e-mails. If you do that and can deliver quality candida
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Ask HN: Has Google's "Farmer Update" affected your sites
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by WillyF 16y ago
Lobby of the Ace Hotel
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by WillyF 16y ago
Care to give any examples?
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by WillyF 16y ago
Find a way to generate enough revenue to pay them, get funding or a loan, or trade time for equity. If you can't get one of those three to work and you can't do the work yourself, then you don't really have much of a startup.
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by WillyF 16y ago
Is breaking Google's rules now a PR/link building tactic? WSJ didn't link to Overstock.com in their article, but if they did, then Overstock would have built a really strong, legitimate backlink as a result of their illicit practices. I als
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by WillyF 16y ago
Because it's a device that a large number of HN users will probably end up owning and using to do their jobs.
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by WillyF 16y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I find the whole Facebook Like system very confusing. This is a small step forward, but Facebook still hasn't fixed the core problems that make it so frustrating. I have a Facebook page (that I use for both of my two
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by WillyF 16y ago
del.icio.us
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by WillyF 16y ago
Yes, the larger job boards buy a ton of traffic, but they also spend a lot on branding. Just watch the Super Bowl. There are also many successful niche job boards that don't buy traffic. I find that most of them rely heavily on organic SEO
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by WillyF 16y ago
The same reason that it costs money to advertise on television. The job board has an audience, and you want to reach it. Attention is expensive. Building an online talent community isn't easy. I know since I've been doing it for the past 3.
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by WillyF 16y ago
HR doesn't attract great talent. I know, because I almost ended up in a career in HR (I hope it's not too presumptuous to consider myself great talent). I was genuinely interested in learning about how organizations can improve performance
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by WillyF 16y ago
My startup helps college students find internships. http://www.onedayoneinternship.com/ Here's everything that we have in web development: http://www.onedayoneinternship.com/tag/web-development/
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by WillyF 16y ago
I'd be wary of how people pronounce your domain name. My first instinct is to say RAPE-EE-OH. That obviously has a bad connotation. I think as long as it's clear that it's a rap site, you'll be ok though.
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by WillyF 16y ago
This is a fabulous idea. I was actually thinking of something similar a week or two ago when there were a few posts about TechCrunch alternatives. I meant to offer up the idea in a thread, but don't think that I ever did. If you did it righ
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by WillyF 16y ago
My Facebook page allows me to broadcast content to my fans. That's valuable. I've found that it's not all that effective when I'm promoting content that my readers get through my e-mails, RSS, or website, but it's actually really great when
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by WillyF 16y ago
I just got it at 500. I'd reached the downvoting threshold once or twice before, but then lost the privilege when the threshold was raised.
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by WillyF 16y ago
Yes, this is a pretty ridiculous story, but what if Intel did leak the new MacBook Pros like this? It'd be really interesting to see how it would affect their relationship with Apple.
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by WillyF 16y ago
I think that Facebook is doing some interesting things on the security front, but it doesn't seem to be working very well. Every week another friend of mine gets his or her account hacked and I often get free iPad spam or whatever. As far a
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by WillyF 16y ago
In a bubble I'd be even more wary about working with other companies (I'm pretty wary as it is). I rely on a lot of other companies to run my business. I have a web host, e-mail providers (for personal and bulk), multiple analytics provider
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by WillyF 16y ago
I went longhand with onedayonejob.com and onedayoneinternship.com

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