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by arn 16y ago
One thing that people tend to underestimate is exactly how much advertising does affect them, even though many seem to adamantly claim it does not. Effective advertising doesn't always = click throughs and action. But also in terms of name
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by arn 16y ago
like apparently 90% of folk, I liked the first one. Which speaks well as a VC pitch. I would be curious to see if you limited the audience to writers... how they would perform. Is the first one just more approachable to the HN/tech crowd
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by arn 16y ago
I can't give you advice on the legal aspect of it. But, it pains me that you haven't registered the domain name. I can't speak to your financial situation, but it's $9/year to register a domain. There's a chance your name will get registe
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by arn 16y ago
fwiw, a similar game was already released to the App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wiki-hunt-the-wikipedia-game/... In case you weren't aware.
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by arn 16y ago
So, RRW updated with actual stats from Reddit. which isn't a fair comparison. If Hitwise's Reddit stats are wrong, then their Digg stats are probably wrong too. So you can't compare Hitwise Digg stats with Reddit real stats.
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by arn 16y ago
So, it's interesting they say their traffic died down due to lower Google ranking. One aspect that I don't know has been mentioned anywhere is the loss of traffic from blogs/news sites. As a news site owner, I stopped using Digg to try to
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by arn 16y ago
But if you had formed a single entity for all your side projects, then it wouldn't have happened a second time (you wouldn't have to have formed 2 entities for projects that never got off the ground -- just one). I think it's reasonable to
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by arn 16y ago
i think this is the easiest, and most likely to be of some success. thought it might alienate those who use the widget, but given the fact you can't sustain it anyway, it's probably not of concern. edit: looking below, I guess there are re
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by arn 16y ago
"There were a few who admitted that their success was mostly due to other people and luck. Now that I'm older, this rings more true than anything else." While luck and circumstance tends to be a factor, I believe that a different person giv
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by arn 16y ago
I don't know about this interpretation of "just start". My take on the "just start" thing is to avoid procrastinating forever, and feeling like it's not the right time, or your idea isn't good enough, or you aren't ready. The point is noth
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by arn 16y ago
this has been tossed around, but the issue has not been journalists broadcasting over WiFi. Apple never provides WiFi. The issue was so many Myfi which clogged up the signals in the room. Whether Apple streams the video or not, there wil
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by arn 16y ago
...and this is a very big reason. If I was coming out of college I would definitely apply to yc. just to be immersed in that scene I think would be invaluable. Even now, I'm financially secure, I still find it appealing, but uprooting m
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by arn 16y ago
"it also sounds like you share some common misperceptions about FB Connect." I suspect it's not just a "common" but overwhelming misperception. In fact, before reading what you wrote here, I didn't know that's how it worked. I am an interm
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by arn 16y ago
ya, seriously. There's frugal, then there's just wasting your time. It goes back to the saying I always liked "linux is free if your time isn't worth anything" (not trying to start a linux debate, the quote came years ago when it required t
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by arn 16y ago
agree with philwelch. Apple's reputation for good marketing is a very recent phenomenon. As someone who has followed apple for a long time, in the 90's I recall them being mocked for their crappy marketing.
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by arn 16y ago
I always liked the question "what's your secret dream job?" as a get to know icebreaker. cause (almost) everyone has one, and most people aren't doing it as their day job.
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by arn 16y ago
I guess "manage"? some content at times, manage writers, site direction, revenue opportunities (banner ad/affiliate stuff), just finished getting an iPhone App done (I didn't code it, I hired someone) for one of the sites. ask/coordinate p
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by arn 16y ago
I've had a lot of problem with this question, myself. In that it's hard to succinctly put what I do, and living in not-SF, people don't really understand tech-web-startup-speak. I guess in the end I've gotten around to saying some version o
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by arn 16y ago
Eliza was actually the first App Store success story, inspiring many to follow: http://www.macrumors.com/2008/08/01/iphone-app-store-numbers...
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by arn 16y ago
The evils of angel investors aside, there's a lot to be said about bootstrapping and the ability to grow a small business and earning steady income on the web. Maybe cause I don't live in/around SF, but the whole investor cycle was never in
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by arn 16y ago
Actually that is a fair point. AppShopper's ads have sold much better through BuySellAds than us doing it direct.
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by arn 16y ago
Trying to succeed in the App Store is a whole different world in itself. In general advertising is tough for any $1.99 product. For this particular product I'd say it's even tougher. A dice roller is simply not a mass market product. So m
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by arn 16y ago
The self serve ad market has been grossly ignored. A good startup opportunity. http://buysellads.com does some of it, but is very limited in the options (30 day buy only). https://www.isocket.com/ promises to do more, and seems like a
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by arn 16y ago
"I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build MY dream website." Shouldn't that be "OUR dream website"? "You're more likely to bump into a piece of talking bacon riding a
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by arn 16y ago
here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgouzUMlQpY paperclip vs iphone 4
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by arn 16y ago
You must not have kids yet.
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by arn 16y ago
This is not true. People still have the app. See: http://www.razorianfly.com/2010/07/08/did-apple-just-use-the... [Update] – Multiple users are reporting to us via Twitter and in the comments section that NDrive is still present on both
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by arn 16y ago
Well, talking about web businesses in general. I think there are a lot of these lifestyle web businesses around where people are making enough to support themselves, but are not crazy rich. It's a bit of a contrast to the VC/silicon valley
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by arn 16y ago
fwiw, arrington first heard about digg only 5 days before reddit's launch. http://techcrunch.com/2005/06/18/profile-digg/
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by arn 16y ago
I know this goes against common sentiment. But I am going to disagree with the notion of going on your own and just investing in index funds. It's not as easy as it sounds to stay consistent with it over time (years, decades). I did all

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