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by annajohnson 16y ago
Facebook's funding timeline: "Round one: $500,000 from Peter Thiel, Summer 2004; Round two: $12.7 million from Accel Partners, April 2005; Round three: $27.5 million from Greylock Partners leading the round, Meritech Capital Partners partic
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Is ‘A Word From Our Sponsor’ The Most Effective Type of Advertising After All?(kikabink.com)
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Tools For Deconstructing Other Sites' Keyword Strategies(kikabink.com)
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Do VCs Usually Fire Founder CEOs? (Some Interesting Statistics)(kikabink.com)
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Those Guys Aren’t Real Venture Capitalists(kikabink.com)
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Ask HN: Why are people so unkind (on the Internet)?
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Tips For Improving Website Usability and Conversions(kikabink.com)
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by annajohnson 16y ago
Tim certainly knows a thing or two about marketing. After reading all the claims I'm definitely intrigued. But, I'm also skeptical, since the claims seem so outlandish. So... I think I'll wait until the book comes out and flick through it i
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What They’ll Never Teach You at Business School(kikabink.com)
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Keyword Research Tools for SEO and SEM(kikabink.com)
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Who Has The Best New Media Business Model - TechCrunch or Demand Media?(kikabink.com)
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DuckDuckGo Review(kikabink.com)
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by annajohnson 16y ago
Great article that provides invaluable insights into Mailchimp's experience with the freemium business model. We are using a freemium model with Domainer Income ( http://www.domainerincome.com ). Now, we are still in the throes of improving
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by annajohnson 16y ago
As others have noted, the point was not that university graduates are, by definition, smart or morally virtuous - merely that university courses require you to submit papers, do written exams, etc where it's made very clear that copying som
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The Ironic Truth About Stupid People(kikabink.com)
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by annajohnson 16y ago
You'll benefit from familiarizing yourself with - and using - certain tools. Here is a list of keyword tools: http://www.kikabink.com/news/7-top-keyword-research-tools-fo... And here is a list of competitive analysis tools: http://www.ki
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by annajohnson 16y ago
Is the question really: am I better off completing college, spending a few years with a big company (or a startup) and then starting my own company... or is it: what do I want to achieve - e.g. build my own company in the xyz industry - and
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by annajohnson 16y ago
I don't think there's anything suspect about Ron Conway's misspelling of 'entrepreneur'. He probably just banged out the email without doing a spell-check. Let's remember it was a private email. Had he intended to have it published he proba
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3 Top Podcasts For Entrepreneurs (and Why)(kikabink.com)
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by annajohnson 16y ago
Good question. To go from a purely conceptual model such as this to one with real empirical substance you would have to be precise about such concepts as confidence and success and how they are quantitatively measured. I think a group of sm
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by annajohnson 16y ago
I think this is terrific news and I'm really pleased to see Mark Z. setting up a foundation and investing a significant amount of money in such a worthy cause as education. Having said that... am I being too cynical... or is it just a coinc
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Are All Successful Entrepreneurs Slightly Deluded?(kikabink.com)
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16 Free Web Analytics Tools For Researching Competitors’ Traffic, Backlinks, etc(kikabink.com)
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by annajohnson 16y ago
Spot on. As much as we'd like to move to the U.S. the biggest barrier is that small matter of a green card! We actually love Australia, and Melbourne is a wonderful city, but we do face certain disadvantages building a startup from here. We
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There is No Copyright in Headlines (Australian Federal Court)(kikabink.com)
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by annajohnson 16y ago
I really enjoyed that article. What strikes me is how driven and hard-working Michael Arrington is. Actually, 'compulsive' comes to mind. Which prompts me to think that successful entrepreneurs aren't motivated to succeed... they're compell
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Ask HN: Do the benefits of the Valley outweigh the costs?
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by annajohnson 16y ago
Do a search on the Internet and you'll find more arguments - from highly credentialed doctors and nutritionists along with plenty of unqualified 'diet fundamentalists' - for and against the idea that gluten is the culprit behind so many hea
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Teaching methods put our kids behind the eight ball(findarticles.com)
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by annajohnson 16y ago
Funny, I thought I was about to get a lesson in what words I should be using in our advertising copy. Was the most powerful word 'free' or 'you' or 'sex' or something else? Oh, and then I re-read the article title: 'perspective' and then th

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