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by akcreek 8y ago
I bootstrapped my first company to several million and revenue by doing contract work on the side. Later, I decided to use the money from my bootstrapped company to launch another startup. Once we got some traction I decided to take compan
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by akcreek 8y ago
One of my businesses doesn't have an affiliate program nor do we offer public coupons, yet coupon sites still have dozens of fake coupons from us along with fake usage counts on the coupons and fake reviews. Since they can't cooki
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by akcreek 8y ago
I don't know that story, but it reminds me of one I heard about Theranos where they would demo their technology for investors, partners, etc. Supposedly they would take the blood sample then say let's tour the facility, meet Eliza
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by akcreek 9y ago
It's possible. I hope that he'll use the money in ways his mom and I would consider to be more constructive, but once he is old enough he gets control of the account and we have no say in it. Fingers crossed.
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by akcreek 9y ago
This is how my wife and I are saving for our son's future. We gift him money (you can each gift up to the limit without reporting it or decreasing the lifetime gift limit) and then we invest the money on his behalf via a UTMA account w
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by akcreek 9y ago
I do not understand that logic at all. Having a household income $303K says nothing about how much down payment you are able to afford.
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by akcreek 9y ago
Discussion from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16476731
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by akcreek 9y ago
That's what I've always heard and I can only speak to my personal experience on this, but we track open rates on our marketing emails and have a 36% open rate historically. I'm sure this isn't everyone who is opening the
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by akcreek 9y ago
Clicking unsubscribe isn't the only way to know if the email is good. If your email client loads images then it will be known if you opened the email which will also give your IP, geolocation, device type, client name, user agent, etc.
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by akcreek 9y ago
Do you pay self-employment tax? If so you can likely deduct the cost of your medical insurance for yourself and your family. I deducted $6,157 for myself and my wife last year through my single member LLC. Line 29 on IRS form 1040 [0]. [0]
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by akcreek 9y ago
This is from 2013[0], but the avg. inheritance in the US at that time was $177K according to an HSBC survey. [0] http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/13/retirement/american-inherita...
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by akcreek 9y ago
I should have better specified... the rate per night makes sense for the place in Seattle, but is way overpriced for the place in Louisville.
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by akcreek 9y ago
Gave me the exact same rate for my current apartment (1600sq ft Capitol Hill Seattle) and my previous condo (1100 sq ft NuLu Louisville, KY). My rent here is 3.5x what my mortgage was in Louisville and from personal experience in both place
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by akcreek 9y ago
Not specific to this site, but the cavalier use of this type of statement bothers me because I highly value honesty, integrity, ethics, etc. even on the internet where accountability is limited. If that line is truly their goal then why not
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by akcreek 9y ago
"The best place to find remote jobs." I get really annoyed when such blatantly false statements are slapped onto a website. If you can't say that honestly then it is a great opportunity to be creative with messaging and say s
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by akcreek 9y ago
I need an accurate way to count words on a variety of documents, with and without renderable text. Could be an image, pdf, docx, etc. The renderable text isn't an issue, but the non has been for me. I've tried several OCR products
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by akcreek 9y ago
How are chargebacks handled on the App store? I would assume a scam like this will receive a relatively enormous number of chargebacks.
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by akcreek 9y ago
I've got uBlock origin, but it doesn't block anything on Pinterest. That brings up a good point... on Pinterest it is hard to tell what is and isn't an ad because the only differentiator is the text below that reads "pro
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by akcreek 9y ago
I've used Pinterest for a couple of years or more to save images of cars, motorcycles and houses and the ads are just as terrible for me. I almost never get on there anymore because of the garbage they are pushing on me. Just not inter
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by akcreek 9y ago
The cacao is pretty good, but the other new flavor, nectar, is terrible IMO. Tastes like liquid pez. I still prefer the original flavor for meals. Cacao tastes more like a treat than a meal.
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by akcreek 10y ago
He was sarcastically alluding to Bill Gates.
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by akcreek 10y ago
Another vote for the Capital One Spark card. We are getting $500/mo + back via the 2% cash back, which has been a much better value for us than the miles we were getting previously with an Citi AAdvantage American Airlines card. I have
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by akcreek 10y ago
Money was wired to an escrow service who was informed of the situation ahead of time and expecting the incoming wire.
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by akcreek 10y ago
In the past I've used http://devdocs.io/ , which is available offline.
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by akcreek 10y ago
I spend about $20k/mo with Adwords and, at least in the US, Google charges every $500. I'll often have multiple charges from them on my card per day during the week. I find it very annoying to have all of these small charges to re
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by akcreek 10y ago
This might be the thread you were looking for (with 500+ comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12379518
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by akcreek 10y ago
I've never really had separation between home and work. I started my first business in college and have worked for myself ever since. I've had offices/warehouse related to some of the ecommerce stuff I've done, but even
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by akcreek 10y ago
I bought a really small business in the translation industry late last year. Since purchase our monthly revenue has grown ~ 190% and we have solid plans to continue the growth. We have 4 people on our internal team, but everyone works remot
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by akcreek 10y ago
About a year ago I started moving towards not selling my time. It has taken a while to wind down all of those relationships, etc. but it has been the best and most lucrative decision I've made in my professional life. I now have just a

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