craigmc

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by craigmc 15y ago
33 yo, and I can cope with using awesome too. I've even been known to use dude and on occasion, stoked. However, that is because I've always been into "extreme" sports (windsurfing, snowboarding, etc). In these sports, it is very much abou
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by craigmc 15y ago
Have you ever started your own biz (that wasn't just a freelance / small consultancy / lifestyle gig)? If so, serious question: what did you pay yourself in the first year of your first biz?
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by craigmc 15y ago
yes.
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by craigmc 15y ago
The rule that "ideas are nothing, execution is everything" fails to properly acknowledge the class of ideas that come from genuine domain experts. In this situation (and presuming the idea does not require an absurd level of technical speci
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by craigmc 15y ago
"prelude to a lawsuit"... When you were a kid and another kid threatened to beat you up, it was always the case that the more they talked about the less likely it was to happen. The ones that were a genuine threat just tended to hit first a
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by craigmc 15y ago
Totally agree with you. While you need to fairly sure you are on a path that is capable of providing you with a decent return at some point, the fact remains that you have to absolutely love the journey, otherwise there are a lot easier way
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by craigmc 15y ago
Leaving aside that 1% is, in reality, too small a % for employee #1 of most startups, there are two factors that might make it worth it: 1. Route from employee #1 to v. senior position (with commensurately higher salary) is shorter* irrespe
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by craigmc 15y ago
Just as youth is wasted on the young, uni/college is wasted on (most) undergrads. I include myself in that group, although I did make the mistake of going to law school (available at undergrad level in the UK) which is something I've been t
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by craigmc 15y ago
Another form of advertising that I didn't know existed until today. I'm sure that it will be everywhere in about 5 minutes, and there does already seem to be more than a few companies doing this sort of thing (so clearly money is being mad
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by craigmc 15y ago
Ultimately for Groupon if these articles begin to intensify in frequency and ambition (wait for the first one to use bankruptcy in its title), then they stand a fairly good chance of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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by craigmc 15y ago
as long as others don't start aping him, I am sure that this particular monkey will swing off into the sunset soon enough... "on like Donkey Kong".... FFS.
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by craigmc 15y ago
Time.com is certainly not one of the best, given the terrible user experience they have created with this list in order to maximise page views...!
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by craigmc 15y ago
It is one thing knowing what is on these lists, but another actually sticking to them. Although you are correct in saying that most people on HN could write this post, very few will ever manage to live it.
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by craigmc 15y ago
Presumably, if you are professional about it, you'd send them some boiler plate about changes to your service offering or some such, and then nicely hand them back all their files, etc. If you can't see that getting emotionally involved in
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by craigmc 15y ago
They've even started giving you a free Aleksandr when you use Comparethemarket.com... Which was almost enough to get me to switch my loyalty from Confused.com. Of course in the States you guys have that old bloke and his gecko to compete wi
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by craigmc 15y ago
In the UK pretty much every second advert on TV is for a car insurance price comparison site. The 3rd best selling book last Christmas was the fictional account of the character of one of these adverts (a meerkat called Aleksandr). Meanwhi
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by craigmc 15y ago
Groupon is presumably taking 50% of "50% of this"? And surely even for a service orientated business 25% is getting pretty close to the fixed cost base (fuel, insurance, kit, etc)?
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by craigmc 15y ago
Groupon's biggest issue as far as I can see is that the value of their cut of the deal will eventually be heck of a lot closer to $0 than it currently is. They are exploiting a market inefficiency (the gap between small biz and their potent
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by craigmc 15y ago
Everyone loves the story of the overnight success. No one wants to read about a 10-15 year struggle, with liberal doses of failure and setback. They'd rather read about someone who had a 'light bulb' moment and cashed out six months later.
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On Airbnb... Tiger Legs Ruined My Cruise(lefthand.me)
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by craigmc 15y ago
http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ Definitely worth buying his video series that accompanies the book (which is free online). then: http://railscasts.com/ (start with the early ones and work forward - I found these great to do at the end of
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by craigmc 15y ago
Presumably Khan Academy is a major alternative these days...
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by craigmc 15y ago
If you've ever had to do a website for a small biz, you typically find that either a) you end up doing the copy or b) the site never gets finished (and you don't get paid, or if you do get paid, you get to put an empty site in your portfoli
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by craigmc 15y ago
Fantastic! I used to do lot via the eBay platform as a "Power Seller", and I always thought they were a most bizarre company: one part incredibly innovative, one part money-grabbing corporate and one (big) part terrible UI/UX designers. Gl
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by craigmc 15y ago
If you say it and the company in question complains, then stop saying it (in that situation the legality doesn't matter as it is a case of BIG v small), otherwise as long as you are not the "airbnb" of a market that airbnb might be in (or w
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by craigmc 15y ago
Its a great market (massive numbers of babies born every year, 4m+ in the US alone) and it is not one that a lot of entrepreneurs automatically think of, so anything that can get traction is clearly going to do fairly well. The problem wit
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by craigmc 15y ago
Really nice take on the issue of not forcing users to create a "one-size-fits-all" online persona (which currently is such a limitation of most social & dating sites). Obviously, you've got issues of how to reach a wide enough audience