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by apowell 17y ago
Quickbooks. Best feature: my accountant knows it.
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by apowell 17y ago
It charges interest to borrowers, but it doesn't pay interest to donor-investors.
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by apowell 17y ago
The question didn't mention startups at all. You can be a single founder without being a startup. If a defining feature of a startup is that it's unprofitable and likely to fail, then I think these single founders should be pleased not to
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by apowell 17y ago
Even better would be to integrate the anti-shelving filter with a GTD app (I use Things) so that I don't have to create a separate task every time I want to create a followup reminder. However, I would never want to send an auto-notificatio
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by apowell 17y ago
"I tinker around the edges of the business, but I don’t have to. It’s on autopilot, and if I don’t do anything to it at all, it’ll keep earning. It’s as secure as any investment vehicle, and if I want to, I can make it grow at any time." We
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by apowell 17y ago
Sure, but using Wikipedia content in manner permitted by its license is not 'stealing' it.
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by apowell 17y ago
I've used "Consultant". It's not really what I am (my main business is advertising/subscriptions), but if I'm handing you my business card, then I'm probably a consultant to you. Consider "Web Dev Consultant" if you want to be ever-so-slig
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by apowell 17y ago
I bought a new Steelcase Leap from an office furniture store and paid through the nose for it -- but it's worth every penny. If paying more than $800 for an office chair doesn't make you think "but how will I pay my rent?", I highly recomm
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by apowell 17y ago
I've only been a one-man band for about three months, but I have a separate room with doors that close set up as my home office. Big floating desk, ergonomic chair (Steelcase Leap), quality monitor -- and when I'm in here, it feels like wor
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by apowell 17y ago
A friend and I developed a proof-of-concept system in 2006 to address this opportunity. The central concept was that publishers would receive offers via our advertising marketplace, and then use their own selection algorithm to select ads
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Ads Posted on Facebook Strike Some as Off-Key (nytimes.com)
9 points by apowell 17y ago|6 comments
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Yelp Hit With Class Action Lawsuit For Running An “Extortion Scheme”(techcrunch.com)
90 points by apowell 17y ago|52 comments
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by apowell 17y ago
Tracking uniques with Flash cookies rather than browser cookies (when possible) should compensate for the one-user-many-browsers problem. I know there are ways for individual users to clear Flash cookies, but I don't believe this is being
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by apowell 17y ago
That's a really fascinating poll. I'd really like to see similar data on the perceived cost vs. actual cost of other federal programs -- do you know if anyone has conducted such a study? It would be interesting to see how people respond wh
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by apowell 17y ago
Oh, absolutely! But that doesn't mean I want to see the Adsense/Casale revenue dry up at the hands of some opportunistic do-gooding scheme.
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by apowell 17y ago
How is this an interesting twist? As a website owner, it not just as bad -- it's worse, because it gives the user an additional incentive (beyond convenience) to block my ads, and feel self-righteous doing it.
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by apowell 17y ago
Final price: $6,350.00 - wow!
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by apowell 17y ago
Why RAID-anything in a laptop? A single Intel SSD is pretty darn fast, and the second bay is more useful as a large-capacity spinning hard drive (unless you need the optical drive, of course). I have my MBP set up this way and I've been v
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by apowell 17y ago
The entire rotor assembly on the Osprey pivots. On the Puffin it is fixed and the entire craft changes its orientation between takeoff, flight, and landing. Whether that makes it more reliable or easier to operate, I have no idea.
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by apowell 17y ago
Nice! If you win, monitor the Ethernet port and let us know what it does.
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by apowell 17y ago
He gets 15% of the value of subsequent sales, but 100% of the first sale. Plus, I'm sure a significant amount of time and material went into the piece.
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by apowell 17y ago
I like it, but I'd like it more if it printed and adhered a shipping label to itself and scheduled a FedEx pickup after it was sold. Once you saw the label, all you would need to do is put it on your doorstep and wait for it to disappear.
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by apowell 17y ago
Desert Drinks is a side project for me -- an experiment in the potential of a focused local directory. Right now, I have a single sponsor (the tall banner on the right). I plan to more aggressively market and monetize the site this year (I
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by apowell 17y ago
I'm doing something similar with http://www.desertdrinks.com , and I like your site. However, unless the dollars start flowing in rather quickly, you're going to find it difficult to keep the data current. Once you appear in Google for so
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by apowell 17y ago
NYT, while you're charging for things, please let me purchase an ad-free version of your iPhone app.
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by apowell 17y ago
How was the ~800% interest rate calculated? $245 / $35.18 = 696% daily interest rate, which annually is ... well, it's incomprehensibly huge. Anyway, overdraft fees aren't loans, they're fees, so it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to thin
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by apowell 17y ago
This article is from 1997, but the comparison to Apple is amusing: SGI's sexy image prompted a Wall Street analyst to label it the new Apple. Sadly for SGI, that may prove all too true. Now, like Apple Computer Inc., the Mountain View (Cal
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by apowell 17y ago
Your experience may be different than mine, but I've been advertising in a couple different verticals (including legal, so I'm familiar with the insanity there) for the past couple years and I've been involved on the Adsense side since earl
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by apowell 17y ago
In other words, not only has advertising on Google has become much more expensive over the past several years (the market at work), it's become so complex that a typical small business owner can't be expected to manage their own campaign wi
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by apowell 17y ago
Since it goes straight to your destination, Google cannot store data on your behavior. I think this is a very cool idea and does provide some level of privacy, but it shouldn't be overstated. Google still has your search history

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