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by a5seo 14y ago
"...born 100 days early." It's interesting, according to Roe vs. Wade, a fetus is not supposed to be viable anytime before 91 days prior to the due date (3rd trimester). As a programmer, nothing drives me more crazy than an arbitrarily chos
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Google Makes Raven Tools Choose: Scraped Data or Adwords API(raventools.com)
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by a5seo 14y ago
I've solo founded, founded w/ a partner but split when we raised external money (and losing 6 figures of my own cash in the process), and founded solo again. This week, I'm signing on to start up something new with 2 co-founders. Here's w
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Cashing in on Gangnam Style's YouTube fame(music.yahoo.com)
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by a5seo 14y ago
Good. Screw them. Now the evil a-hole caption will hang over their logo in my mind forever. Probably others on HN. Even if this damages their brand in only a small way, it's a real cost.
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by a5seo 14y ago
God I miss turning on the radio to hear KCSM now that I live in Austin. I programmed years of my life away listening to that station in a crappy rented room in Sunnyvale after college, and loved every bit of it. So grateful they're streami
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Mark Suster Interviews Rand Fishkin on Startup SEO(youtube.com)
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by a5seo 14y ago
Spot on. Definitely not any more of a premature optimization than usability, since SEO is usability for bots. So unless you really do not care about the crawlability and understandability of your site/app, you should be optimizing for bots
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by a5seo 14y ago
Fair point, presumably "income" would just be earned income and dividends. The challenge is that when you change the rate, people change their behavior. Here's some interesting data showing the historical relationship between behavior and c
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by a5seo 14y ago
For more context: "You hear a lot, in books, in the blogosphere, among pundits that the middle class is being hollowed out, the incomes for all but the top 1% or maybe the top 20% are stagnating; that the gap between rich and poor has grown
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by a5seo 14y ago
not precisely what you asked, but a useful approximation: "If the IRS grabbed 100 percent of income over $1 million, the take would be just $616 billion. That’s only a third of this year’s deficit." [2012] -- http://www.forbes.com/sites/da
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by a5seo 14y ago
Hey! I just checked out your profile... I ran across your 30x500 site a while back. Looks really cool. Keep up the good work. After selling my last company, I'm back looking to create another business in the same vein as what you guys tea
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by a5seo 14y ago
You make it sound like an either-or (income or shot at $10M-100M exit), but it's not. I was pulling a 500k per year in income from a web business I founded AND got a $10M+ exit. It depends a lot on the business model and multiples. My advi
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by a5seo 14y ago
Definitely agree. It's a great counter to the narrative that everything is getting worse (China's GDP overtaking the US, inflation, higher taxes, etc). The things that really matter to building a business are still awesome. We're incredib
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by a5seo 14y ago
Have we learned nothing from Twitter. FB's ad revenue model is still in its infancy, so I wouldn't assume any part of their ecosystem is safe.
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An Interview with Mark Pincus and Farting Zynga(buzzstream.com)
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Will Hurricane Sandy affect AWS region us-east-1(quora.com)
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Data centers batten down as Hurricane Sandy blows in(gigaom.com)
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by a5seo 14y ago
i live 2 mi west of ut/downtown, and i disagree. i gave up cycling when i moved here from the Valley. :/
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Italian Prosecutors Target Scientists Who Failed To Predict the Future(reason.com)
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by a5seo 14y ago
- accounting and financial statement analysis (useful in pricing and fundraising) - quantitative marketing models (useful in forecasting + modeling) - market research techniques (probably the most valuable skill to building products) - VC f
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by a5seo 14y ago
I started as a programmer and got an MBA from an ok school (top 20). The combination is very valuable (at least to me) for exactly the reason you cite: the best decisions require wading around in the mucky details. The MBA gives you a few
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by a5seo 14y ago
Yelp's strategy could backfire. Now all a competitor has to do is put ads on Craigslist or Mturk begging for reviews for all of its competitors, knowing Yelp will see them and penalize them. Yelp is going to find themselves boxed in on thi
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Ira Glass's reddit IamA (reddit.com)
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by a5seo 14y ago
Would Quora users stick with them if became a Yahoo-owned property? That 8% super heavy user group is 100% of the value. Absolutely core to the quality. Sort like what Craiglist had in the 90's. You lose them, and Quora is dead. Not sur
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Build Your Own Satellite (A Game from NASA)(jwst.nasa.gov)
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by a5seo 14y ago
In my experience, the deadline of something like that is merely a forcing function to act on a problem that you've let go too long. I have yet to meet an entrepreneur that moves too fast on firings. That said, I learned early on in my care
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by a5seo 14y ago
The whole point of the original comment was that Noah fires to stop people's equity from vesting. If he did, sure, there's a claim that it's unethical. But since that's unlikely, what do you have left??? That Noah fired some people who ma
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by a5seo 14y ago
>> fire staff before equity vests I seriously doubt this is the reason. Doesn't Noah own like 80-90% of that business, and any one superstar employee is maybe looking at 1% or less in equity. So you're saying Noah would burn peop
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How Columbia Made a Profit Giving Away 8 CDs for $0.01 [2011](mentalfloss.com)
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