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by bryanh 16y ago
I'm in the tricky situation of not having enough users within BitBuffet.com to really gauge these numbers accurately. I'm currently paying about 8 months of customer revenue to pull in a new paying customer, but honestly, that number isn't
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by bryanh 16y ago
No, but you can use past months aggregate total to estimate churn rate.
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> If they're smart, they'll wait until we annihilate ourselves or destroy our planet, and then walk right in. Less resources will be expended on their side. That's assuming they have time on their side. By the time they are searching ot
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by bryanh 16y ago
I bet a large majority of success would be based on that piece's past performance (Reddit, Delicious, HN, repeat submissions, etc.). An "algorithm" like that is probably pretty trivial... It would be interesting if it actually has novel con
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If you are Mac/Unix you can use cron every minute and screencapture/scrot...
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I'd KILL to have scalability issues... we had one band that said they were likely to sell several hundred thousand copies of their single using BitBuffet, which got me all excited, but that never came to pass. I honestly believed it might h
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by bryanh 16y ago
So, what would happen on major interstates if highway patrols kept a steady pace? Is that a viable solution? Wouldn't they eventually run up on another wave of cars and ruin everything? I would be really interesting to see if this actually
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by bryanh 16y ago
I completely agree, and I tend to pass that over into web apps that I build. Don't remove complexity, hide it. That's why I don't really buy whole-heartedly into the "less-is-always-more" school of Jason Fried and company (although you can'
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by bryanh 16y ago
Annnnnnnd Reddit just freaked out... I'm always stoked for new releases of Ubuntu even though I don't really use them much at all (except on servers). Is there any real reason to keep up a release cycle like theirs when you can just update
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by bryanh 16y ago
True, the old switcheroo is definitely bad business. A little more transparency would have negated this whole thing.
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I definitely believe the agreement is necessary for Google to have regular access to its current channels looking forward (both across the net and especially with Android through Verizon). Yes, it is good for business. There may be a huge o
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Good point, but I think Google sees the writing on the wall. Would they like pure net-neutrality? I am sure they would, but I think they are realists and know that in the end, profits win. They want a piece of those profits and are trying t
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It was about time someone said something to this effect. Net neutrality aside, Google is a public company. They have shareholders. From what it sounds like, Larry and Sergey are more or less full blown academics and therefore idealistic. Pr
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I don't really understand the downvotes here, he speaks the truth. Every rule has exceptions, especially the "get 10 signed customers" rule. If you are passionate about the idea, then you should be confident and let it ride.
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Alternatively, make sure that they are already buying it through an existing service. Now you need to make a better, easier to use product and price competitively. In a marketplace where you can harvest demand (IE: PPC) this is very effecti
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I always thought it was a little bit because the founders had quite a bit of pull in the hacker/startup community. What if Joe Blow had started a better Twitter a week earlier? How would he have advertised it and got penetration? I'm not de
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by bryanh 16y ago
I'll save you the time of reading that comment: due-diligence. But seriously, an MBA is a little different from those couple paragraphs (though they do contain valuable advice). An MBA is often a way to get your foot in the door for Fortune
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I think his point is that the examples are unforeseeable, not that his example is the one you should be worried about.
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Well, they could be the one of the first to be reported as bidding for preferred access. I am sure telco's were talking "what-if" with content providers before this.
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As with everything else in life, college is a perfect example of "you get out of it what you put into it" or garbage in/garbage out.
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This camera (the SX-70) is actually a really neat little pop-up Polaroid camera. The Impossible Project actually re-leased an old Polaroid film factory, bought the equipment before it was scrapped and (I believe) hired a few of the old work
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I could probably scour your backposts to find this, but where do you draw the line between worthwhile keywords and completely uncommon keywords?
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I love the dashboard screenshot. More of these Patrick! How about a tour of BCC someday?
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I keep bringing this up (I keep my drum on me 24/7), but I run http://EveryMentor.com/ and we're trying to be something like that but for folks that are looking for a more business aspect. Basically, its a place where you get a workout bu
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This is brilliant advice. Remember all that shit about pain points and building a product that has value? That's what living and breathing a 9-5 in a specialty domain will teach you. Think you might want to build an online property manageme
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Wonderful suggestions on both accounts. We went solo and built from scratch with Django, not because it was easier, but because we want to do a lot of fancy stuff with content, tracking, A/B testing and custom product generation later down
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by bryanh 16y ago
1) I hope you are correct about Patrick, I always love reading his take on things and no doubt he will have one on this. We've also been studying his Bingo card site setup because I think we want to do the same thing (IE: generate lots of c
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Thanks for the kind words; the font selection has been a mess of compatibility, so I appreciate your response very much.
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Clickable: http://beadifulrosaries.com/
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