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by cabinguy 14y ago
A commission in the hand is worth two in the bush...but a purchase agreement submitted by a potential buyer can have a time limit attached to it. If the seller wants to wait around, they may lose out of the initial offer, which is (most) of
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by cabinguy 14y ago
I'm not trying to have a back-and-forth but I think you are confusing business ideas and business models. Many potentially great businesses (high sign up rates, etc.) struggle to find a valid business model.
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by cabinguy 14y ago
I have no idea if FundersClub is wildly profitable or not, but I thought that "validating a business model" meant the model was profitable, not just legal.
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by cabinguy 14y ago
We pay no attention to "rules." Our logo has been in the footer for 4 years. Traffic is up and revenue has doubled every year to 7 figures. We don't A/B test, so I can't attribute our growth to this, but it is a nice little anecdote. Edit:
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by cabinguy 14y ago
Don't forget the beautiful, shiny tracking devices most of us pay a lot of money to carry around.
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by cabinguy 14y ago
One of our company offices is in Detroit Lakes, MN, very close to the ND border. The fact of the matter is that this oil boom has made many, many ND farmers instant millionaires. If oils is found on their land they are receiving huge royalt
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by cabinguy 14y ago
I think it is a fair comparison. If by guns we are talking about those used to kill animals... / If by guns we are talking about those used to kill people... The only real difference between an "assault rifle" and a "regular" rifle is the c
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by cabinguy 14y ago
This exactly describes the gun debate going on today. Is it a terrorist or a freedom fighter? = Is it an assault weapon or a rifle?
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by cabinguy 14y ago
I love your idea and this niche. Here are a few thoughts... 1. There are a lot more stylists than salons, and a lot of them are independent contractors (they rent chairs in salons). I would focus on selling to them, not salons. I would make
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by cabinguy 14y ago
Bah Humbug (please excuse me, it's just a seasonal expression). While I can feel your pain, this story has nothing to do with SV - it's the story of an entrepreneur. The same story exists in every state in the U.S. and every major city (and
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by cabinguy 14y ago
I like the part where some guy/gal with a stop watch was keeping records of every minute.
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by cabinguy 15y ago
I don't want to disparage the masses with words like "dumb" but your comment does touch on a very important fact. The masses are moved by simple, but powerful themes. Cotton understands this and used it to his advantage. In my opinion, anti
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Bootstrappers: How To Say "No"(davegooden.com)
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Airbnb, Investor Settle Differences With Employees to Get Liquidity(allthingsd.com)
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What a Bootstrapper's Pre-Launch Homepage Should Look Like(davegooden.com)
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Better Than Money(instigate.me)
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by cabinguy 15y ago
I just tried to submit this for you. You beat me to it.
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by cabinguy 15y ago
Me too. I am not a big apple fan (I stay away from most of their products for reasons I will not go into here), but this marks the end of an era.
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by cabinguy 15y ago
Specifically, I disagree with giving up.
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by cabinguy 15y ago
I appreciate this post but I disagree with it. I started my company in 2003. There were hundreds of times that we should have "folded." Last year we did $500k. This year we will do $1M. Turns out we were just too early, but because we were
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by cabinguy 15y ago
Spend it ALL on client acquisition. Test Google, Facebook, Yahoo, etc... Do 5 tests of $1k each (or 10 @ $500). Spend the remaining 5k on whatever works best.
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How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company(davegooden.com)
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by cabinguy 15y ago
"You need to discover the moment when you actually know better than everyone around you — when you make the first move without asking permission." I love that line - it says it all.
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by cabinguy 15y ago
As I remember it, the "highly relevant" results on Google were almost exclusively determined by a $299 Yahoo! Directory listing or a DMOZ directory listing. If you could get the Yahoo Directory or DMOZ to link to you with your preferred anc
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by cabinguy 16y ago
I'm sorry it DQ's the OP, but this idea is a winner.
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by cabinguy 16y ago
I remember him announcing Quizlet on the short-lived TechCrunch Forums. I was impressed then and I am impressed now.
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by cabinguy 16y ago
I agree with the current majority. Use off the shelf software to get started. My company uses an install of Wordpress with the GTD theme (P2 Theme is also an option) for communication - it is basically a twitter/yammer clone. We have 20 peo
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by cabinguy 16y ago
Ok...we can keep going. If you would have said "YC is like the Marines of startup incubators" and left it at that, it would have been fine. But you didn't say that. You went a lot further than that. You made very specific comparisons includ
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by cabinguy 16y ago
I don't want to keep piling on but it seems like you still don't get it. One of the reasons your post got such a negative response is because you are comparing yourself to people who put themselves in harms way for your benefit. There is a
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by cabinguy 16y ago
Exactly. I had a comment ready to go but I didn't want to get too negative on the OP so I deleted it. He forgets that kids his age will die this week doing what his fantasy analogies describe. As someone who served 4 years in the military,

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