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by answerly 18y ago
Is there any "non-adult" application of your technology/process/methods? If so, one strategy may be to show that this will work with many different types of content and not just adult content. That way you go from being a purely adult ori
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I'd argue that netbooks of the future will look more like the iphone than the ASUS EEE or Dell Mini. As such, Apple is probably farther down this path than anyone (although by a more unconventional route).
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I have seen some software development R&D deductions at my previous companies here in the US. I am not an accountant and the definition of what is deductible is pretty narrow. The best advice is to discuss with a tax professional sinc
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My advice is to do it in-house. Most of my past startups have been very affiliate driven and I have had some bad experiences outsourcing (most commonly that the checks get sent late). The most important thing to an affiliate is that they
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Check out usertesting.com. I have had a lot of success using their service. For about $19 you get a screencast and talk track of a user trying to complete certain goals (that you pre-determine) on your site. Its not perfect, but it is a
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The Amazon Associates program has a bunch of limitations on how affiliates can promote Amazon. Their current stance on the mobile channel is not unique in that regard.
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Totally agreed. There are probably elements of quality control and disambiguation as well. How would it benefit Amazon to have dozens of Amazon iPhone apps, likely of variable quality, available to consumers? Seems to make most sense to
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Two techniques I've used in the past: 1) Figure out the "regular" job that is most directly related to what your startup does and say you do that. For example, I have largely been involved with ad supported startups, so most of my relative
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The most unfortunate thing about child identity theft is that about 55% of instances are perpetrated by parents or other family members. Basically, folks that have burned through their own credit and have moved on to ruin their kid's credi
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Seems like a really cool utility, particularly the image editing elements. I will definitely use this app. It would be great if I could automatically syndicate my uploaded photos out to other services/locations where my friends and family
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The closest thing I have seen to what you are describing is Amazon's new iPhone app. Users take a picture of any item, then the pictures are routed to Mechanical Turk where a real person tries to match the product in the picture with the s
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The site seems easy enough to navigate and the messaging is straight forward. I don't know enough about the tea market to know how big the niche is (although there is a ton of search volume on Google Trends for tea related keywords, which
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Online ad spend is continuing to grow year-over-year and accountable channels like search and performance/affiliate marketing will be the largest drivers of that growth. The brand dollars are the ones that get thrown out of the window in an
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Thats a great idea.
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Just the idea that you could bring a lot of value by only displaying content that is truly related to startups. For example, you are pulling in the straight TechCrunch feed, but in reality only a small percentage of TechCrunch stories are
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Same experience here- Yahoo generates higher quality users in both paid and organic search, but Google's volume is significantly higher. The volume gap seems even greater (in Google's favor) in organic search.
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FWIW- I did a ton of research on friend to friend sharing in a previous gig. I found time and again that site based currency (like your points) was the most attractive motivator to encourage users to refer friends to a site. If you do ince
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Seems like a site like this will live or die by the curation. Its not clear to me why I would visit your site versus Hacker News since the community here culls out the startup related posts from the sources you have listed on your site alr
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Google Alerts is super helpful for tracking mentions of your company on the web. You should also check out search.twitter.com for mentions of your site/brand on twitter. I haven't been as successful with using Google Alerts for broader ind
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I spent ten years running various types of sales organizations and have never had a positive experience in outsourcing sales. I have hired outside consultants with experience selling in certain areas to make warm introductions to companies
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You will need to be very careful about which sites you allow users to extract content from as many larger sites have TOS which prevent this type of activity. You could be opening yourself up to some nasty DMCA take down notices depending o
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The three main levers in a subscription business are: 1) the premium: this is the enticement which gets people to try out your product. Most typically it is a free trial period. 2) the fees: what does the service cost the user. My experi
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The Drudge Report established itself as a player early on by breaking major stories like the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal. I think Drudge's success has more to do with the fact that they are a tier one news source versus the simplicity of thei
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+1 for the mini. They are cheap and portable.
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Stanford students open the door to embeddable ads in videos(liesdamnedlies.com)
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