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by a5seo 15y ago
One of the best decisions I ever made was to hire a high school dropout into a de facto programming apprenticeship. The guy dropped out for family reasons, went to work in factories, got a job in IT eventually, but was really bright and har
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by a5seo 15y ago
"Do you really think that a higher tax rate will stop an entrepreneur from creating a company" No, but more likely to sell early, give up more easily when the going gets tough, not invest as much in growth (and pocket the profits)... Yes.
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by a5seo 15y ago
this is dead-on... local = massive sales expense. elon musk tried to create one such company, Zip2, back in the late 90's. cost of sales ate it alive. reachlocal, profitfuel, etc has been successful by making their companies into freakish
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by a5seo 15y ago
it wont be hard for them to IPO on a small float at 20-30B valuation... what will be hard is for VC's and employees to sell at that valuation once the lockup expires.
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Paul Graham on Capital Gains [2006](paulgraham.com)
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by a5seo 15y ago
So here's a question- if you follow Buffett's logic, then a guy who builds a company for 40 years, most likely goes with barely any income in some years, and sells it for $10M when he retires, that guy gets slapped with a 100% tax increase.
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by a5seo 15y ago
What's missing is an estimate of the revenue impact of doing what Buffet suggests. I've always heard that this kind of policy would add little to revenue, because there is simply far more tax money available by taxing earned income.
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by a5seo 15y ago
I hate to say this, but this isn't saying, "HOW you deliver your idea" is being judged. YOU are being judged. As in... how prestigious your school and prior work was; how you speak and what it says about your intelligence; what social clas
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The Evolution of Steve Jobs' Wardrobe(gizmodo.com)
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Genius twofer campaign... #1 the landing page from his press release (shouldigotoharvard.com) 301 redirects to collegebuddy.com, so that ensures all the high authority media links boost collegebuddy.com (which hasn't even been released yet.
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by a5seo 15y ago
There is academic research that confirms the injustice hypothesis: http://www2.owen.vanderbilt.edu/mike.shor/research/Promo/Eco...
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by a5seo 15y ago
Here's a graph I found explaining the "link wheel" strategy: http://lemonarian.com/images/majorwheel.jpg
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by a5seo 15y ago
These pages rank at the top of the site: search because they have a lot of backlinks. Why? Because someone created the profile, then went out and created links to their profile page (e.g. http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=http%
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by a5seo 15y ago
The best use for HalfBakery.com in my experience, is as Snopes for Ideas. If someone guardedly shares their own half-baked idea over dinner (especially if they think they need to find a technical partner, investor, or get a patent), rather
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by a5seo 15y ago
One thing I've learned is that your language/framework is an HR decision. The jobs metric tells me that if you hope to hire >>experienced<< Ruby programmers, you can probably expect to have fewer to choose from, possibly wai
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by a5seo 15y ago
That's cool, but when I'm hiring a team and paying their salaries with my own money, I'm just not going to bank on transitioning anyone from X to Y. No time for it, no appetite for the risk. But if you raise VC, more power to you.
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by a5seo 15y ago
That might be true for a basic/early Rails app where it's ok to have script kiddie relationship with Ruby, but if you have a more complex app, I don't think the learning curve is quite as easy as you're making it sound. My own experience wi
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by a5seo 15y ago
Another reason to stop hating on Java is that in a lot of cities, it would be a fool's errand to assemble another kind of dev team. Like Ruby? Great. Good luck building a team in Omaha. Skills go where the jobs are: http://www.indeed.com
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by a5seo 15y ago
By that logic, your comment being understood isn't your responsibility, it's the responsibility of your reader.
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by a5seo 15y ago
For subscription services, figure out what problems your customers have and create free tools, calculators, widgets, templates, Excel spreadsheets to solve them, then go promote that stuff.
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by a5seo 15y ago
ahem, you mean AOL's content. there is a cube in Dulles with the light on tonight with a C&D on the monitor.
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by a5seo 15y ago
In some ways, I'd like to keep SEO's awesomeness a secret from the HN and startup community. As a developer (I'm not a engineer or computer scientist), I love to build stuff and see people use it. If you build things that are usable by Goo
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by a5seo 15y ago
how about this... if a product manager hands you a spec with mockups and youre expected to return pixel perfect code in return, you're on the engineer end of the scale. the key difference is freedom/autonomy.
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by a5seo 15y ago
Look through any local ACLU chapters' case list and you'll find plenty. Or read http://reason.com/blog/2008/12/10/slapp-silly -- that is an archetypal case. Environmental activists, whistleblowers, online reviewers. Lawsuits are the pe
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by a5seo 15y ago
@vannevar you have obviously never been sued or threatened on a meritless claim by a multi billion $ company. Loser pay is a significant equalizer because let's say the case is speech related, the ACLU will defend you all day long necuase
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by a5seo 15y ago
This would be the ultimate way to kill UGC sites. Sue them into bankruptcy. Just keep losing, but exhausting their cash. This is why the US needs a loser-pay model like the UK.
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I think you pretty much takes what Groupon will give you.
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HomeAway IPO Roadshow presentation(retailroadshow.com)
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I would love a tool that manages the cap table over time with the ability to model out various funding scenarios. Imagine if such a tool could then keep track of who has executed their options and who hasn't, even down to managing the trans
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Mostly accurate for me. I've been talking to two developers about joining a bootstrapped startup I've been working on... I'm full-time, MVP is 80% of the way, and its in a space where I have domain expertise, industry connections, and fundr

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