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by brm 17y ago
To be honest, the headline of this article itself struck me as amateur. That said, Karp flips between handling it well and not handling it well in the comments. Jaime Wilkinson of Know Your Meme seems to do the best job of clearing things
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by brm 17y ago
This type of blog post (and headline) is completely ridiculous. Its a useful resource if you don't know how to use a search engine. The only reason to visit it to help focus.com pad its pageviews. Social media is as simple as this: Do wha
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Fake Rocks, Salami Commanders, and Just Enough to Start(43folders.com)
4 points by brm 17y ago|0 comments
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by brm 17y ago
Funnily enough I was unware you were from Chicago when I wrote that. Through Jelly Chicago, I've come across several of these "lose band of entrepreneurs" type operations here in the city
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by brm 17y ago
midVentures are a bunch of University of Chicago and Northwestern alums who have joined together to do almost exactly what you describe: http://midventures.com/
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by brm 17y ago
The central concept is incredible but the way groupon uses it is not, the spa did not book over $4300 in business like Chris says, rumor has it that groupon actually takes 50% of the sales for itself. Sure, Groupon is a good business but it
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by brm 17y ago
I used to use dada mail and now I use oempro If you're looking for a hosted solution that isnt too expensive Aweber is nice. http://octeth.com/products/oempro/ http://dadamailproject.com/ http://www.aweber.com/
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Simple Web Product Guidelines (Leah Culver)(gist.github.com)
1 points by brm 17y ago|0 comments
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by brm 17y ago
funny thing about the internet, virtually everyone mistakes discussion for argument. Very little of what I said was a statement of belief. I should perhaps have said that I was simply looking for someone to explain the sides so I can make a
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by brm 17y ago
and now that you can use bids as credit towards the retail price if you don't win the auction is this negated?
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by brm 17y ago
He calls it evil but doesn't provide much justification other than what he assumes people already believe. In the interest of philosophical discussion... why is maximizing profit using knowledge of consumer behavior "evil" so to speak? If s
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by brm 17y ago
It should be way easier to get to a person's twitter page from your site, I understand the desire for lock in and all but, man.
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by brm 17y ago
Employment is like any other relationship. If it has been a good one that has run its course, then sure you act with courtesy. However, if its been a bad one like the ones in the article appear to be then you don't owe anyone anything.
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by brm 17y ago
I'd agree with that, my thoughts are if your employer doesn't provide the people it lets go with a cushion (advanced noticed or severance pay) then the employee who leaves is in no way obligated to do something the employer wouldn't do for
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by brm 17y ago
Unless you find yourself in the kind of structure and nice working atmosphere where they'd have the decency to give you advanced notice that you you we're going to be fired/laid-off so you can prepare, you probably shouldn't freely offer to
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Would you want it if it were free?(feld.com)
39 points by brm 17y ago|5 comments
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Upgrade & Billing Screen Design Walkthrough (Basecamp)(37signals.com)
21 points by brm 17y ago|3 comments
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by brm 17y ago
http://texthog.com I send it text messages when I spend money. much easier than writing it down or keeping receipts etc
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by brm 17y ago
grawked.com net org smartisan.com goodfromgoods.com creatorial(s).com brokerageview.com finefreight.com letsbreakit.com
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by brm 17y ago
use name.com as your registrar they give you free private whois
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by brm 17y ago
http://spot.us is trying something interesting but I simply dont know if their scope is large enough
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by brm 17y ago
2 days in a row, same author, 2 of the same article in the the atlanta journal constitution with the same spiel about Georgia having a high startup rate all with pretty much the same quotes from different state government related people...I
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by brm 17y ago
I can't help but be tangentially reminded of this: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by brm 17y ago
You get paid between 50 and 75% of your referees winning bid revenue, see: https://ebaypartnernetwork.com/files/hub/en-US/gettingPaid.h...
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by brm 17y ago
Starting a "new business" does not equal starting a startup (at least in terms relevant to News.YC)
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by brm 17y ago
Like his stance or not, I have come to greatly appreciate people who don't sugar coat things...
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Examples of the Wisdom of Crowds in Daily Life(powazek.com)
3 points by brm 17y ago|0 comments
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Now We Can Rig Up Twitter "Groups"(lauraminer.com)
4 points by brm 17y ago|6 comments
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It’s not the infographics on the page that interest me...(secretenemyhideout.com)
3 points by brm 17y ago|0 comments
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by brm 17y ago
looks like its new but very curious to see what kind of results this progresses with: http://transfs.com/

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