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by chris123 16y ago
Acquiring customers for $1 a pop is cheap. If customer lifetime value is < $1 then something is terribly wrong.
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by chris123 16y ago
Will be nice when they release the new convertible notes they've been talking about and Paul G promised to release soon here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1657906
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by chris123 16y ago
Great slides and great job extending Hotmail/PayPal viral growth formula.
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by chris123 16y ago
Thanks. Any idea what the ETA is (if there is one)?
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by chris123 16y ago
Power naps are great... and have been for eons. Yet Harvard has just figured it out? LOL. Masters of the obvious.
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Ask HN: Has YC released its model Convertible Note document(s) yet?
3 points by chris123 16y ago|2 comments
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by chris123 16y ago
I think all he meant you don't have to invent something brand new, but you said you should take advantage of the new tools, technologies, social graphs, etc. that were not previously available. It sounds obvious, and maybe it is, but it's
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by chris123 16y ago
With respect to this this article, what would be helpful would be some links to actual convertible notes with caps and other provisions mentioned in his piece. Anybody have anything to share with the community?
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The Official Verdict In The STOLEN iPhone Case(businessinsider.com)
2 points by chris123 16y ago|0 comments
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Jon Stewart Rips Into Apple Over Lost iPhone Debacle.(techcrunch.com)
8 points by chris123 16y ago|1 comments
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by chris123 16y ago
I'm not sure about the MT analogy, but it is Fiverr is a neat concept. Hopefully you can keep the spam down and signal-to-noise ratio up. Also keep improving the reputation system, perhaps with some stats and percentages and filtering and
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by chris123 17y ago
Aren't these questions mostly a way to trim the prospect pool to a size that you can do "real" interviews with? ("Real interviews" are the interviews after the ones in which you get asked these kinds of questions).
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by chris123 17y ago
Say, that ReBuzzThis ( http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/05/rebuzz-tweetmeme-google-buz... ) is not a bad idea (one too many syllable in the name, though). Anyone want to build something similar (but different and better) with me using one of t
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ReBuzzThis Wants To Be The TweetMeme Of Google Buzz(techcrunch.com)
2 points by chris123 17y ago|1 comments
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by chris123 17y ago
No such things as bad publicity ("they" say). Regarding the product/service, however, it's one of the most innovative products/services recently launched, IMHO. Potentially explosive. Of course, it's not necessarily http://www.kwedit.com/
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Kwedit Gets Slammed On Colbert, But Raises $3.3 Million To Soften The Blow(techcrunch.com)
1 points by chris123 17y ago|3 comments
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by chris123 17y ago
Speaking of email address import/export, what are your guys' other favorites? Facebook Connect?
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Playing along with the Mozart effect(latimes.com)
1 points by chris123 17y ago|1 comments
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by chris123 17y ago
Say, that BuzzAware ( http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/01/buzzaware-google-buzz-app-d... ) is not a bad idea. Anyone want to build something similar (but different and better) with me using one of these names that I own? http://BuzzConnect.m
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Music is good for you at any age(latimes.com)
1 points by chris123 17y ago|0 comments
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Naps can refresh brain power(latimes.com)
1 points by chris123 17y ago|1 comments
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by chris123 17y ago
Some interesting stuff and stats in there. For example: Now let’s look at an e-book. Under the agreements with Apple, the publishers will set the consumer price and the retailer will act as an agent, earning a 30 percent commission on each
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Math of Publishing Meets the E-Book (nytimes.com)
4 points by chris123 17y ago|2 comments
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by chris123 17y ago
Another interesting and, at least somewhat, related article. This time it's from the Washington Post (14 Feb. 2010): "The case against banning the word 'retard'" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02...
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by chris123 17y ago
VCs are all about competing with existing startups. That's the #1 most used play in their playbook (same with YC and angels). See the paragraph of most TechCrunch posts about any new startup and you will see a list of similar ones that ca
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by chris123 17y ago
Two words: "healthy diet." That's all you need. If you have that, you don't need supplements.
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Google execs convicted in Italy over video upload(latimes.com)
1 points by chris123 17y ago|0 comments
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by chris123 17y ago
Poll: Who else is a power napper, how long on average, and when on average? Time = 20-40 minutes, sometimes as little as 10 or as long as an hour. Sometimes skip a day. To cure east-to-west jet lag same day I run on excitement from arrival
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by chris123 17y ago
It would be interesting to see a review and comparison of contact importer services, nothing the white hats, black hats, and gray hats.
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In a doomsday cyber attack scenario, answers are unsettling(latimes.com)
3 points by chris123 17y ago|1 comments

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