anthony_franco

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The True Cost of Entrepreneurship(afran.co)
1 points by anthony_franco 11y ago|0 comments
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by anthony_franco 11y ago
I doubt the $4m was for 100% of the company. It's unknown what the ROI would've been for the investors. But still probably something the founders are regretting.
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Building in Public(afran.co)
1 points by anthony_franco 11y ago|0 comments
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The CEO of Everything(afran.co)
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by anthony_franco 11y ago
The vast majority of APIs require an access token, anyway. Not surprised that Facebook followed suit.
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by anthony_franco 11y ago
Any income taxes paid to SG would quality for a Foreign Tax Credit so you wouldn't be double taxed.
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by anthony_franco 11y ago
The main thing holding me back from converting over to Postgres for my own projects (although I used it extensively at my previous jobs) is the lack of native multi-master support. Granted, I haven't looked into it recently. What'
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by anthony_franco 11y ago
If you're targeting developers using S3, then they'd be most comfortable with Amazon style billing I would thing. It's probably best to align with that thinking.
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by anthony_franco 11y ago
Yep. And on top of that a reverse proxy is unable to inspect the requests to route them smartly (based on path, cookies, etc.).
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by anthony_franco 11y ago
Very few people know this, but I remember when MySpace almost killed YouTube. Yes, MySpace. YouTube blew up in popularity when everyone was adding videos to their MySpace profiles. And suddenly one day MySpace decided to block all YouTube e
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by anthony_franco 11y ago
Subscribe to the Hacker News Newsletter http://www.hackernewsletter.com/
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by anthony_franco 11y ago
We outsource it out to WP Engine so we don't have to worry about it.
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Forgetting and Learning to Ride a Bicycle Again(youtube.com)
7 points by anthony_franco 11y ago|0 comments
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by anthony_franco 12y ago
KISSMetrics does the reverse, they bring your DB data into their service directly. But it's essentially the same setup. http://support.kissmetrics.com/integrations/mysql/index.html
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by anthony_franco 12y ago
First thing this reminded me of was https://tokbox.com/ . Hopefully the pricing is along the same lines, it's good to see some competition in the space.
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by anthony_franco 12y ago
Not sure if they still do it, but 37signals (now Basecamp) did 4 day work weeks during the summer: http://www.fastcompany.com/3000852/37signals-earns-millions-...
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by anthony_franco 12y ago
I'm guessing it's considered more like a coupon since you didn't directly pay money for it.
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by anthony_franco 12y ago
I signed up for Bit of News. It sends me a daily email with the important five or so topics of the day.
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by anthony_franco 12y ago
Why do gyms have low attendance rates? I think it's all just human psychology. We overestimate the amount of effort we'll give to a achieve a certain goal. And sometimes just having the gym membership/MOOC purchase is enough
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by anthony_franco 12y ago
It's just the way whois lookups work. Do a whois lookup of any big site (google.com, microsoft.com, etc) and you'll get a similar response.
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by anthony_franco 12y ago
For anyone else worried about this, the best way to mitigate this going forward is to have secondary DNS servers. Your primary DNS provider should allow automatic zone transfers. This makes it so that any changes you do to your primary serv
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by anthony_franco 12y ago
If your hustle muscle is developed enough you could power through without even needing a technical cofounder. Sam Ovens is one great example (of many).
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by anthony_franco 12y ago
It's a matter between either being lucky or having a compelling enough story/background that people gravitate toward you. I've heard a lot from the other side as well, technical people asking how to find the perfect business
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by anthony_franco 12y ago
Same here. I've read all his essays. Read his book. Follow him on Twitter. Read articles on him. Visit HN daily. But I've never heard about this meme. Go figure.
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by anthony_franco 12y ago
WordPress. I like being in complete control of my content/platform. WordPress themes are cheap and plentiful. Lots of great plugins to do everything from SEO to lead generation. And lots of WordPress developers available to do any cust
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Behind the Scenes of Emojli and Why You Should Never Build an App(youtube.com)
1 points by anthony_franco 12y ago|0 comments
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by anthony_franco 12y ago
http://hittail.com - Rob Walling http://getdrip.com - also Rob Walling http://bidsketch.com - Ruben Gamez http://getmysky.com - Josh Isaak http://snapinspect.com - Sam Ovens All of
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by anthony_franco 12y ago
Like a good startup YC wanted to validate their assumptions and experimented with "no-idea" teams. Considering they don't have that option anymore, I'd venture to guess that they disproved PG's original saying and a
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by anthony_franco 12y ago
Machine year is similar to man hours. It's the total number of accumulated years the machines were in use.
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by anthony_franco 12y ago
Many times the articles reference some new, meaningful information about the respective company and seeing the change in stock price adds merit to the story.

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