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by amac 15y ago
I have worked on this in the past and work on a side project in this field. Would be willing to discuss more via email if you wish. (Email's in my profile)
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by amac 15y ago
I'm in a similar position though I think I've improved my focus vastly compared to previous projects. Please feel free to email me if you want to discuss in private. In terms of advice, probably the best thing to do is to pursue what you ca
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by amac 15y ago
Zero Hedge is interesting in that it shares the philosophy of the Economist i.e anonymity. In a world now, where everyone appears to be shouting or seeking attention, it's quite refreshing. (Although both could improve the structure of thei
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by amac 15y ago
eNom are fine. You can register (upgrade) as a reseller for bulk discounts and other tools. I'm led to believe folks with really high value names or lots of them often become registrars themselves.
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by amac 15y ago
You might need to define 'successful' for online grocery in the UK. Ocado is losing money and I doubt that the major supermarket operations are profitable.
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by amac 15y ago
Same. I guess it's a re-branding exercise and they'll do most of the heavy lifting for us.
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by amac 15y ago
Repost from remote thread: Posted previously on hiring threads and received a good response from the HN community. Needless to say, still looking for someone to help with my project to catalog every product in existence. It will be a non-pr
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by amac 15y ago
Posted previously on hiring threads and received a good response from the HN community. Needless to say, still looking for someone to help with my project to catalog every product in existence. It will be a non-profit service however I'd li
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by amac 15y ago
I'm working on something related to this. If you like, I would enjoy sharing my project and discussing marketplaces further with you. (My email's in my profile.)
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by amac 16y ago
I've received a lot of interesting feedback and will be proceeding to build something. Hopefully all going well I'll update this thread when it's ready.
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by amac 16y ago
The site looks fine but growing the economics section might be a big ask. No offense to the operators but the name isn't the best either.
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by amac 16y ago
Possibly. I love the independent Economist articles - the mixture of background, stats, graphs and opinion. The problem lies in engaging with the topics and the need for startup/entrepreneurial content that will help me with my own startup.
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by amac 16y ago
Yeah, good suggestion. Reddit's quite a large site though now with a broad number of topics. Maybe a more focused business/economics site might be more useful to me I don't know.
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by amac 16y ago
That might be a good idea. It's a pity New Mogul shut-down as It really was a good compliment to HN's engineering topics when many are also looking for business advice and content.
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by amac 16y ago
Thanks for the url. It looks like an interesting forum, more from a stocks perspective as opposed to the macro economy. I'd like to add that it might make more sense to focus on startups and innovating companies from each sector mentioned.
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Ask HN: Economics community website?
30 points by amac 16y ago|19 comments
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by amac 16y ago
Sedo.
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by amac 16y ago
Agree. Having conversed with him via email, he's done really well with Quizlet and is a smart guy. Goodluck Andrew.
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by amac 16y ago
The marketplace (like any) is based on trust, there are always untrustworthy people.
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by amac 16y ago
It's hard to comment without seeing your work, is your product public? Do you have a url?
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by amac 16y ago
Focus on people (sellers), not products or categories.
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by amac 16y ago
No, not April Fool's. It's an ambitious goal I accept though.
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by amac 16y ago
Seeking freelancer. Web developer, remote ok. Project is to catalog every product in existence. Database knowledge a bonus. E-mail is in my profile.
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by amac 16y ago
Seeking freelancer Web developer, remote ok. Project is to catalog every product in existence. Database knowledge a bonus. E-mail is in my profile.
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by amac 16y ago
I graduated, but made the mistake of not starting a project whilst at college. If you start now, you could have something to work on after college - with a degree in hand too. If it becomes too much, you'll then have to choose one over the
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Ask HN: Companies named after actual things?
1 points by amac 16y ago|0 comments
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by amac 16y ago
Octopart is the YC website I use the most. In addition to current revenues, I'd suggest there's an opportunity to build a marketplace for parts too. I'm often looking for parts online to buy that simply are not available or require custom m
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by amac 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2221039
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by amac 16y ago
A business to business marketplace/network, exclusively focused on enterprise/opex. If you think about real world opex e.g office supplies, travel, insurance, advertising, online is the future. The largest marketplaces currently focus on B2
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by amac 16y ago
Fairly obvious but true, good B2B companies usually have strong balance sheets and often minimal debt. The Internet appears to be B2C from a users perspective but fundamentally, the business models i.e advertising, commission, are basically

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